The 5th Young Writers’ Competition 2026 was a bumper year with over 900 entries. Find our more here and read the award-winning stories. Open to all South African children age 6-18.
Young Writers’ Competition 2026
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children’s creative writing
Spilling Ink – A Young Writer’s Handbook
Spilling Ink is one of the best handbooks for young writers you’ll find, with everything from finding your writer’s voice to plotting what happens, creating your characters, choosing a narrative voice (who is telling your story) and getting into a writing practice.
The authors have put together everything a young writer needs to know.
Three Creative Writing Tips
Boost your child’s creative writing skills by following these three tips: get dramatic, write what they know and touch and feel their words.
Growing Writers: Write Your Own Story Book
When children get inspired to write their own stories, this is the book you can steer them towards. Growing writers will love the write-in spiral bound style which they can take wherever they go, and it has prompts, tips and a story writing tool kit to help them learn to write their own stories.
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