Write Your Own Historical Fiction

Get your students to bring the past to life! Winning students will each receive a book token worth £25 and a specially designed commemorative notebook for writing future stories. Schools will receive a year’s FREE subscription to the HA.

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  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction Competition 2025

    11th December 2024

    Entries for this year's competition are now closed. The winners will be posted on this website in September/October. Next year's competition will open at the end of 2025. Each year we are so impressed by the ever increasing number and standard of entries we receive around such a wide range of...

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  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2024 – the winners

    27th September 2024

    Real history contains some of the most fanciful, exciting, worrying and incredible stories – learning about the past can open our eyes to how people have interacted with the world and each other for centuries. It is not surprising that alongside the real history most cultures and traditions have a...

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  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2023 – the winners

    20th September 2023

    Being inspired by stories of the past to tell stories for today has kept people entertained for hundreds of years. Take a look at the shelves in any bookshop and there will be plenty of historical fiction. That is why we believe in starting them young at the HA, and...

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  • Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning 

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    In this first webinar about writing historical fiction, author Tony Bradman will talk about how ideas grow from reading and thinking about history. Once you have a good idea, then you need to research it properly, starting with secondary sources for context, then moving on to more specific reading. Visits...

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  • Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Writing and revision

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    In this second webinar in our series on writing historical fiction, author Tony Bradman talks about the actual process of writing the story, with examples. The difficulty of the first page - how to start your story with impact and make sure the reader is gripped from the first line....

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