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WICKED Young Writers' Award

The Wicked Young Writers' Award has been established to recognise excellence in writing, encourage creativity and help develop writing talent in young people, according to its promoters.

Any young person across the UK between the ages of 5 and 25 years old is eligible to enter.

There will be the opportunity to enter into five different age categories:
5-7 years old
8-10 years old
11-13 years old
14-16 years old
17-25 years old.

An individual Gregory Maguire Award is specifically designed for young people aged between 17 and 25 years and encourages entries that, in the same style as Gregory Maguire's novels, takes a well-known story and examines it from a different perspective.

One overall young writer will be chosen as a winner from each age category and will receive:

Four tickets to see the London production of WICKED with their family and an opportunity to meet cast members after the show; a WICKED writing master class from one of the celebrity author judges.

All 100 winning entries will be published in an anthology of the WICKED Young Writers' Award 2010.

The top 20 winning entries from each age category will be invited to an autumn prize ceremony to be held at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre

Entries must be no longer than 750 words.

More than 250,000 pupils have seen WICKED as it enters into its fourth year at London's Apollo Victoria Theatre

Closing date for entries is July 31, 2010.

For detail, see the website:

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