Make sure they don't miss their chance - entries must be received by 31 May 2019. Our historical fiction competition has gone from strength to strength and each year we are so impressed by the number and standard of entries we receive around such a wide range of historical periods and settings. You...

The Historical Association Historical Fiction Prize and the Joan Blyth Memorial Prize Get your Year 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 students to bring the past to life! Our historical fiction competition has gone from strength to strength and each year we are so impressed by the number and standard...

This year's Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition has once again provided some work of an exceptional standard. Year upon year, we were not only astounded by the number of entries we receive, but also by the very high standard, which makes the judging process very difficult. This year, we...

The Historical Association Historical Fiction Prize and the Joan Blyth Memorial Prize Write Your Own Historical Fiction Competition 2016 - Get your Year 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 students to bring the past to life! One of the key attributes of historical fiction is that it has a convincing...

This year's Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition has been bigger and better than ever. We were not only astounded by the number of entries we received, but also be the very high standard, which makes the judging process very difficult. This year, we were very ably helped by student...

This year's Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition has been bigger and better than ever. We were not only astounded by the number of entries we received, but also be the very high standard, which makes the judging process very difficult. This year, we were very ably helped by student...

The Historical Association Historical Fiction Prize and the Joan Blyth Memorial Prize Write Your Own Historical Fiction Competition 2015 - Bigger and Better than Ever Before! Get your Year 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 students to bring the past to life! One of the key attributes of historical fiction...

Write Your Own Historical Story Competition and the Joan Blyth Memorial Prize 2014 winning stories.The competition this year has been very successful with more entries from more schools and a range of excellent stories by students across Year 5 to 9. We asked the winners if we might publish their...

Write Your Own Historical Story Competition and the Joan Blyth Memorial Prize 2014.Once again the competition has been a success with 101 stories from 40 schools across the country, and a couple from abroad. All the entries are admirably creative. Our young writers have chosen to set their stories across...

The Historical Association Historical Fiction Prize and the Joan Blyth Memorial Prize Write Your Own Historical Fiction Competition 2014 - Bigger and Better than Ever Before! Get your Year 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 students to bring the past to life! One of the key attributes of historical fiction...

Write Your Own Historical Story Competition and the Joan Blyth Memorial Prize 2013 winning stories.The competition this year has been very successful with more entries from more schools and a range of excellent stories by students across Year 5 to 9.  We asked the winners if we might publish their...

The Historical Association Write Your Own Historical Story Competition and the Joan Blyth Memorial Prize 2012.The competition this year has again been successful. With the change in categories there was a very slight reduction in entries but this was balanced by the number of schools entering students who had been...

Write Your Own Historical Story Competition 2011. As part of this competition the winners were invited to have their stories published on the Historical Association website. In the best stories pupils deliberately drew upon the historical fiction writer's devices to write well. They had clearly been explicitly taught how to...

Write Your Own Historical Story Competition 2010. As part of this competition the winners were invited to have their stories published on the Historical Association website. In the best stories pupils deliberately drew upon the historical fiction writer's devices to write well. They had clearly been explicitly taught how to...

The competition this year has again been very successful. We received 111 entries from 51 schools across England and Wales. These broke down into 39 stories from Year 7 pupils, 41 from Year 8 pupils and 31 from Year 9 pupils. Their stories came from all periods and places in...