Henrietta Branford Writing Competition 2020. For young people who enjoy writing stories!
The competition is now closed and the winners will be announced on July 1st
The photo shows last year’s competition winners (Rachel Byrne aged 13 years, Rosa Johnson aged 11 years, Sonya Mendias aged 12 years, Libby Mercer aged 12 years, Vranda Radia aged 12 years, Ben Robotham aged 11 years) with the 2018 Branford Boase Award winner Mitch Johnson.
Henrietta Branford Writing Competition 2020 Judge
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.