Prizewinners are announced once all of the books in the series have been published.

The announcement of prizewinners can vary from competition to competition, but the details of what the prize is and when it will be awarded will be provided in the original competition details.

Young Writers aims to encourage and inspire children to engage in creative writing. We run national competitions, publish writing magazines and provide resources for teachers and young writers.

No. All we require to publish your child's work is a signed Copyright©/Permission form returned by the deadline stated in the correspondence that was sent to you.

No. Ordering a book is not a condition of publication. Your child's work has been selected on its own merits. As long as the signed Copyright©/Permission form is returned to us their work will be included. All schools with published pupils will receive a free copy of the book their pupils feature in so that parents, teachers and pupils can see the work in print.

If you have missed the date on the form please call us as soon as possible, although we work to deadlines we will do all we can to include your child's work.

Please contact us and we will send you a replacement Copyright/Permission form.

The price of the book reflects the time and cost that goes in to producing them.

Our editorial team have to read all of the work that is submitted to us, all poems/stories have to be typed, typesets have to be sent to parents and then corrected when they get back to us. Our design team create covers for each book. Once all this is done we have to print the books, all our books are printed in house. By ordering books before publication we offer 3 for 2, this makes it cheaper for you to buy for family and friends and it allows us to schedule print runs for the correct amount.

We do not pass on your or your child's details to any third parties.

We use the details we have for you to liaise with you about the publication of your child's work and any relevant orders. From time to time we may send you details of Bonacia's competitions, products and services. To opt out please tick the box at the bottom of the checklist on the Copyright©/Permission form.

We ensure that all paperwork and information that is no longer required is regularly shredded by a professional shredding company to keep your card and personal details safe.

No. We can accept independent entries sent directly from home or an afterschool club etc as long as the entrant’s full name, age and contact address are included with the entry, along with the name of the competition the entry is for.

Yes. We contact the school when we send out letters to the parents. We let them know who has been accepted for publication and give them details about when to expect their complimentary copy of the book.

There is no limit on the amount of entries a school or group send in. However, we do ask to only submit one entry per person for any one competition.

We run competitions for all ages from Foundation years to Sixth Form. Please see the individual competition pages for details.

Unfortunately we do not publish books that only include the work of one individual, however Bonacia Ltd have a self publishing brand Proprint and a print service BPUK who would be able to help. 

No, because the books have multiple authors royalties would work out at only a few pence for each poet. Instead, we award prize money to the best schools in the series, which they can use for resources for the children. We also pick individual prizewinners from the books and award them book tokens.

Young Writers was established with the aim of encouraging young people to enjoy creative writing by seeing their work in print. The parent company of Young Writers is Bonacia Ltd.

Bonacia Ltd is the parent company of Young Writers. They have lots of different brands, please see the associated brands section of the site for more details.

We publish regional anthologies of children's poems and stories and also work by adults. We have several imprints dealing with a range of publications such as artwork, first poems, new fiction, ghost stories and poetry diaries.

We publish two magazines for children to help them with their reading and writing skills. Scribbler! is for 7-11 year olds and Wordsmith is for 11-18 year olds.

No. All of our themes and competitions are free to enter. We also accept submissions on any theme and in any style throughout the year.

We welcome calls, letters, emails and faxes from young writers, their parents and teachers. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

Entries are selected on the basis of imagination, use of language, creativity and expression. We take the age of the entrant into account, as it cannot be expected that the work of a 7-year-old will be as good as that of a 16-year-old. We also take into account any learning difficulties we are made aware of.

We view our competitions as a creative writing experience, therefore we will endeavour to accept as many entries as we can, as long as they meet our editing criteria. We want to encourage children to enjoy reading and writing and to take pride in their work.

Work that has been submitted by schools for one of our series competitions will be returned to the school at the same time as the acceptance letters for the successful pupils are sent out. Unfortunately, due to the amount of entries received, we cannot return work that has been sent in independently. In this case the work will be professionally shredded in order to protect the children's personal details.

Once the entries have all been received we split them down into different areas of the country in order to make regional anthologies of a manageable size. Sometimes publications will be a mixture of regions and include entries from overseas depending on the amount of entries received from any one area.

We need a parent/guardian's permission to publish their child's work and so we send out the form for you to sign. By giving permission to use the work you are allowing it to be published only in the named anthology and copyright always remains with the author.

Once your child's work has been typed we send you a copy of how the work will appear in the book. We send this to you so you can check for any corrections. If you would like to make any changes please clearly mark them on the typeset and send it back to us.

Please Note: If you are sending back a typeset we still need to receive your signed Copyright/Permission form to be able to publish your child's work.

If we have made any errors in either the name or address, please let us know so that we can put it right. The easiest way is to mark any changes on your Copyright©/Permission form before you send it back to us.

We can accept permission over the telephone if there are no changes to be made to the typeset before publication. If there are changes that need to be made then you must send the typeset back to us with the changes marked.

If you have lost the typeset copy please contact us and a member of the team will arrange to post or email another copy of the work to you.

We send a reminder Copyright/Permission form to the parents who have not replied to the original letter we sent.

If you have sent back your permission and have received a reminder Copyright/Permission form please contact us and we will check to see if it has been received.

Yes. We need to receive permission for each individual person selected for publication. If more than one of your children have been selected to be published you will need to sign each Copyright©/Permission form and return them to us.

They do. All authors retain their own copyright©, which is why we write to ask you for permission to include their work in our book. We reserve the right to publish any winning work on our website and in other appropriate publicity material. You are welcome to have any work published with us published elsewhere.

After we have contacted you by letter offering to publish your child's work, it takes 16 weeks to get the book prepared and delivered. Please see our Publication Timeline for further details.

If your child entered one of our competitions through a school or nursery your order will be delivered to the school/nursery concerned.

If your child has entered independently then your order will be sent directly to you.

If we receive an order from you for a book we will take this as permission to publish the work of your child that has been selected for that particular book.

In some cases, customs charges may apply to packages being delivered to non EU countries. We do supply the relevant paperwork when shipping your order but parcels are being checked more frequently due to increased security. We cannot be liable for any additional customs charges made on your package as these charges are completely beyond our control.