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There are a lot of schools who read Floodland, especially in years 5 and 6 - and with the current situation, I know there are some of you who are halfway through the book, but who, without sufficient copies for every pupil, are unable to finish from home.

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Hi! I am Alexander Gordon Smith, and this is my YouTube channel! I'm currently reading through my books to help alleviate the boredom and stress of Lockdown, so I hope you'll find the time to join me! All for one, and let's get the hell out of here! :-)

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When schools closed in March, and students suddenly engaging in remote learning, I decided to read my novel, ALIENATED: GROUNDED AT GROOM LAKE , on YouTube, chapter-by-chapter. A type of "virtual class reader." It's a fun, funny middle-grade story, perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson. Star Wars, and Men In Black.

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Edited by Katherine Rundell, with contributions from more than 100 children's writers and illustrators

This extraordinary collection of short stories, poems, essays and pictures has contributions from more than 110 children's writers and illustrators, including Lauren Child, Anthony Horowitz, Greg James and Chris Smith, Michael Morpurgo, Liz Pichon, Axel Scheffler, Francesca Simon and Jacqueline Wilson.

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When schools were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic in both 2020 and 2021 Bloomsbury generously permitted us to share The Book of Hopes as an ebook freely accessible to schools and families.

As part of our Education Recovery support for schools and children we worked with partners to develop a range of supporting resources, that you can find linked below.

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Skulduggery Bites is finished now but you can still listen to extracts from each of the books via the Books page…

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She’s twelve. He’s dead. But together they’re going to save the world. Hopefully.
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WHERE SEAGULLS DARE

I'm shocked.

The last time I wrote a Diamond brothers novel was actually 18 years ago - back in 2002 and it wasn't even a full novel. It was called The Blurred Man and it was only 80 pages long.

I've been so busy with Alex Rider that I've completely ignored Tim Diamond, the world's most stupid private detective, and his smarter younger brother, Nick.

But with the whole world in lockdown and young readers forced to stay away from school and their friends, I was wondering what I could do to help and suddenly the Diamond brothers came to mind.

What we need right now is jokes. So I'm writing a new story: Where Seagulls Dare.

But I'm doing it in a very different way. Normally when you read one of my stories, I may have written it half a dozen times. It's been edited. All the spelling mistakes (and unnecessary violence) have been taken out. It's been put into a nice cover with illustrations beside the text. It is, in other words, a book.

This time, what you're going to read is "work in progress". As I sit here, locked down in London, I have almost no idea what's going to happen in the story. I'm not even sure I know what to write in Chapter Two! The whole thing may go hopelessly wrong and it's quite possible that I won't ever get to the end.

If you want the truth, I very much hope that this whole virus thing will be over before I've written too many chapters and I can stop and bring out the whole book at some time in the future (with all author profits going to support our brilliant NHS.)

In the meantime, though, I hope you'll enjoy the story...even with the typos and the speling mistakes. You can let me know what you think as I continue - and it's even possible I may have to ask for help.

Anyway, here is Chapter One. And Chapter Two...?

Help!

Anthony Horowitz
Click here to read Chapter One of Where Seagulls Dare!

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Crongton Knights by Alex Wheatle on Stage

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Crongton Knights by Alex Wheatle on Stage

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Margarer Mulligan reading Katy Parker and the House That Cried

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Prue Goodwin is a freelance lecturer in literacy and children's books. She taught in primary and middle schools for over twenty years and was an advisory teacher for language development before spending ten years as Director of INSET for the Reading Centre at the University of Reading. Her current work includes speaking at conferences, consultancy to publishers of children's books, and researching literacy in schools. Whilst lecturing at the University of Reading (between 1992 and 2010), she organised highly popular in-service courses for teachers and publishers, tutored trainee teachers and ran an MA module on Children's Books in Education.

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2020 Competition Details - The Branford Boase Award and The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition

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Prue Goodwin is a freelance lecturer in literacy and children's books. She taught in primary and middle schools for over twenty years and was an advisory teacher for language development before spending ten years as Director of INSET for the Reading Centre at the University of Reading.

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'THE FUTURE WE WANT' - Orwell Youth Prize extends deadline for entries

In the time that the Orwell Youth Prize has been open for entries, thinking about 'The Future We Want' has taken on a different significance. Everyone's world has shifted immeasurably over the last few weeks, and it feels easy to say that the future we want is the past we just had.

Now more than ever, we need the courage to imagine, and the creativity that difficult times bring. We have a big new global challenge, but one that has brought into relief many problems that were already with us: our relationship to the environment, our experience of education and healthcare, the way our government and media communicate, our connection to our communities.
What does the future look like now? What does it mean to write about a future we want? Who's thinking about the future while we're all thinking about the present? For this reason, we are extending the Orwell Youth Prize 2020 deadline for entries and allowing re-submissions to 11th June. We are also offering personalised feedback, as usual, on entries we receive before 6th May.
We'll also be adding to and developing our online resources for students, young writers and teachers: we want to be a place where you can come together and share ideas and perspectives.
Resources for Now
As things shift and change, alongside our existing resources, we'll be pulling together reading and listening recommendations that may provide hope, comfort, new ideas or thoughtful commentary in this unprecedented period.

At the Orwell Youth Prize, we aim to cover a wide range of perspectives and interpretations from across the political spectrum, if you disagree with an argument made in any of our resources, think about why and how you would counter it, consider language, political bias and the overall aim of the piece.

Collaborate with us: if you have reading, watching or listening recommendations you'd like us to share with other young writers, or if you have ideas for how we could best support your writing at this strange time, don't hesitate to get in touch either with our Programme Manager- Alex Talbott alextalbott@orwellyouthprize.co.uk or via social media on Instagram @orwellyouthprize or Twitter: @orwellyouthpriz
Orwell for Now
George Orwell lived through tumultuous times. He also went out of his way to be a part of history, volunteering as a soldier during the Spanish Civil War and working for the BBC during the Second World War creating programmes for broadcast in India, which was then part of the British Empire. Orwell's method - making sure he saw with his own eyes, and forever questioning his own assumptions - meant that he often changed his mind, though he was never shy of arguing for what he believed. Through his fiction, journalism and essay, he was constantly exploring what it means to tell the truth in an uncertain world. Across the Foundation website you can find examples of how his writing can be a source of inspiration now.

The current crisis means we cannot go out and find the story like Orwell did: the story has come to us. But Orwell's method is just as important. His writing is an example of how there is strength to be found in embracing, and interrogating, change. Our present might at times feel like the lonely, limiting future which Orwell imagined in Nineteen Eighty-Four. However, it is worth remembering that Orwell's present is our past. Orwell was writing when the United Kingdom was reeling from the Second World War, the communist Soviet Union was a world power, everyday life was very different to how it is today. Orwell described Nineteen Eighty-Four as a warning, not a prophecy. What warning would you give to the future?

'It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure... It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.' Nineteen Eighty-Four

'Every February since 1940 I have found myself thinking that this time Winter is going to be permanent... At any rate, spring is here, even in London, and they can't stop you enjoying it.' ' Some Thoughts on The Common Toad ' (1946)

'The actual differences in social atmosphere and political behaviour between country and country are far greater than can be explained by any theory which writes off laws, customs, traditions, etc. as mere 'superstructure.' 'Fascism and Democracy' (1941)

Coronavirus & The Future In the short run we are all infected - Liam Stanley (London Review of Books Blog)The Seven Early Lessons of Coronavirus - Ivan Krastev (New Statesman)Outlook Podcast (BBC World Service)A letter to the UK from Italy: this is what we know about your future - Francesca Melandri (Guardian)Coronavirus futures - where might we be headed and to what kind of new normality - Ravi Gurumurthy, Charles Leadbetter (Nesta) Politics
Coronavirus has changed our world. Suddenly we face a stark choice: distance or death - Suzanne Moore (Guardian, Orwell Prize Winner)

Nationalism is a side effect of coronavirus - Gideon Rachman (Financial Times, Orwell Prize Winner) - See if your school has signed up to free Financial Times subscription here - or request a free account )

How coronavirus is remaking democratic politics - Philip Stephens (Financial Times). See if your school has signed up to free Financial Times subscription here - or request a free account )
The Coronation - Charles Eisenstein Consequences The Economist's coverage of the coronavirus - A selection of stories about covid-19 and its consequences (The Economist) Is shutting down Britain - with unprecedented curbs on ancient liberties - REALLY the best answer? Peter Hitchens (The Daily Mail) How Power Profits From Disaster - Naomi Klein (Guardian)
Virus lays bare the frailty of the social contract - Editorial Board (The Financial Times) See if your school has signed up to free Financial Times subscription here - or request a free account )
The Media Fact-Checking - Full Fact Fact or Fake - BBC Bitesize How you can fact check claims about the new coronavirus What makes us believe a false claim? Age, education and cognitive biases all play a part Work It is time to make amends to the low-paid essential worker, Sarah O'Connor (Financial Times, Orwell Prize Winner) - Free to read Coronavirus means we have to put ideology aside and bring in a universal basic income, Alex Sobel (Independent) Youth It's time for an NHS National Service - Aris Rossinos Education - When the Covid-19 crisis finally ends, schools must never return to normal - Niamh Sweeney (The Guardian)Race Why I'm fighting for an independent public inquiry into the Covid-19 deaths of people of colour -Rianna Raymond-Williams (Gal-dem)BAME People Are More Likely To Die Of Coronavirus Than White People, Arj Singh (Huffington Post)Environment After Covid-19, The Climate - Anne Orford (London Review of Books Blog)Listening: Short Cuts - Habitat - Josie Long (BBC)A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Culture & Writing'The impossible has already happened': what coronavirus can teach us about hope - Rebecca Solnit (The Guardian) What our contagion fables are really about - Jill Lepore (The New Yorker)
'Poetry can be the bridge that connects us during these difficult times' - Mary Jean Chan (Guardian)
Feeling overwhelmed? How art can help in an emergency - Olivia Laing (Guardian) Winter in the Abruzzi - Natalia Ginzberg Healthcare 'As a chronically ill person, I know it is vital we approach coronavirus through the lens of community' - Lauren Nathan-Lane (gal-dem)Housing
The idea of sharing a home across generational divides is having a come back - Fatima Hudoon (The Bristol Cable)
Coronavirus UK - Sadiq Khan offering free food & hotel rooms to homeless - Joe Mellor (The London Economic)Community This Changes Everything, Neal Lawson (Rethinking Poverty - The Webb Legacy)WRITING ADVICE Guide to Style Guide to Form Encountering Orwell The brilliant work of previous winners of the Orwell Youth Prize
If you have any further questions, suggestions, or thoughts, please get in touch with Alex Talbott, alextalbott@orwellyouthprize.co.uk

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'THE FUTURE WE WANT' - Orwell Youth Prize extends deadline for entries In the time that the Orwell Youth Prize has been open for entries, thinking about 'The Future We Want' has taken on a different significance.

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Walter Scott Historical Fiction Competition

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The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

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Entries are judged in two categories - 11-15 years and 16-19 years, and we're looking for stories with historical relevance and accuracy, originality, a good grasp of language, characterisation and plot - but above all enjoyment in your writing. The fiction can be in any form - prose, poetry, drama, fictional diaries, letters or reportage. Stories must be set in the past - any time before you were born!

Entries must be submitted in hard copy by post, and accompanied by an entry form. We can't accept entries by email or in any other digital format. Please download our 2020 Entry Form and read the terms and conditions if you're interested in entering next year's competition.

Two category winners receive a £500 travel and research grant to further explore historical places in the UK, and a two-day trip to the Borders Book Festival in Melrose, Scotland in September 2021 (Covid-19 permitting). All the winning stories are published in a special YWSP anthology.

Find out more about our 2019 winners, Ide and Charlotte, here!

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How to enter - How to enter The 2020 Prize

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Entries are judged in two categories - 11-15 years and 16-19 years, and we're looking for stories with historical relevance and accuracy, originality, a good grasp of language, characterisation and plot - but above all enjoyment in your writing. The fiction can be in any form - prose, poetry, drama, fictional diaries, letters or reportage.