The 2010 Children's Fiction Writing Award WINNERS
2011 winners will be posted here shortly. If you are looking for the 2009 winners, you'll find them here.
Age Group - 8-12 Years
‘The Rose’ by Eden
Eden lives with her parents and her older brother, Devon, and has a dog called Miikka and a hamster called Custard.
Besides writing, Eden loves to read, play the violin, skate, and hang out with her friends. She is also an enthusiastic Girl Guide. During the summertime, Eden likes to camp.
‘The Milky Stone’ by Monika
Monika loves to read, write, and draw. She also enjoys soccer, karate, skiing, hiking, biking, dancing, acting, and just about anything that has to do with sports or being with friends. She also loves animals, nature and learning new things.
‘Over the Rainbow’ by Sylvia
Silvia enjoys singing, playing piano, reading, and writing stories. She hopes to publish her own book some day. When she grows up, she would like to become an author and teach kids how to play the piano.
Age Group - 12-15 Years
‘The Dragon’s Keep’ by Emilie
Emilie has enjoyed reading and writing since a very young age. She also enjoys dancing, synchronized swimming and music. Her favourite places are at the cabin with her cousins and camping in the mountains with her family and miniature schnauzer, Button. Emilie loves animals and hopes to travel the world studying them one day.
‘The Taking of Sage’ by Sakura
Language Arts always seemed like the easiest class for Sakura. She had no problems with grammar, homonyms, and other writing skills. In 7th grade, a teacher suggested Sakura should attend the Calgary Young Writers' Conference. Since then she has been to the Writers' Conference twice and has gone to a writing camp called WordsWorth for two consecutive years. She plans to go again this summer. Besides writing, Sakura has taken guitar lessons for four years. She also enjoys taking pictures while travelling.
‘Oliver Saves the Princess’ by Tiffany
Besides story writing, Tiffany likes to sketch, swim, read, daydream, and sleep in on Saturdays. She’s aspiring to become a writer of some sort one day too. Tiffany’s also a videogame-fan, though she promises that she doesn’t play as much as her little brother does (at least, she doesn’t believe so). What she does believe is that her family is wonderful, inspiring and supportive to her, and that many awesome teachers have supported her to write, erase, and keep on writing. If asked what she would do if she has the chance to do anything imaginable, Tiffany would easily say that she’d invite a whole bunch of friends to ride dragons in the moonlight. Either that, or get some work published.
The winning stories in each age group were professionally edited, then collected into an anthology, featuring not only the story, but also a photograph and biography of the author, printed by our wonderful sponsors at Blitzprint. Each young author in the anthology also received ten complimentary copies of the anthology for friends and family.
Thank you to everyone who entered. Good luck with your writing - and get ready for the 2010 Children's Fiction Writing Award!
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