500 Words Competition

Barrow Hills is supporting “the 500 words” competition, a well known creative challenge that has been running since 2011. There are two age categories 5-7 and 8-11. Mrs Dudley can submit the typed stories for you. If you would like to take part email jed@barrowhills.org by Monday 3rd November.

Did you know that every story enters the prize draw to win a ticket to attend the results event.

All 500 Words stories must:

Be 500 words or less (title is not included in the number)
Be written by an individual and not a group
Be a child’s own original idea
Be prose, not rap or poem

Stories must not:

Give any personal details of the child, including their name
Recount an historical event (but they can use a real person or historical character as a source of inspiration)
Be created, written or developed by AI

In every 500 Words competition, all stories are judged on the following criteria: