Here's the entries that didn't make the grade ...
Have a read through and see what you think.
The winning story: » Brindley Hallam Dennis
Runners-up: » Angela Locke » Dawn Robertson » Lois Howard
And the rest! Read the rest of the entries here
Haiku Three line poetry Just for fun e-mail in now No prize just glory
Get Writing - the BBC's guide to the art of creative writing.
Writersroom - the BBC's online resource for writing for television, radio and film.
World Book Day, the website, with details of what's on, where...
A short guide on how to write for websites
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites.
World Book Day is derived from a St George's Day celebration in Catalonia, where books and roses were given as gifts.
Maggie Norton is a writing tutor at Lancaster University, as well as been an author, storyteller and poet.
The longest novel in the world is 'A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu' by Marcel Proust. It runs to 9,609,000 characters!
The biggest book in the world is 'Bhutan: Odyssey around the Kingdom'. It measures 2m x 1.5 m and weighs 60.3kg - but it only has 112 pages!
Carolina Gonzalez-Carvajal
Marie-Louise Bainbridge
Roy Mason
Mrs D Shannon
Carol Bissett
Pam Clatworthy
Jean Wilkinson
Unknown
Wendy Ferreira
Peter Scott
Mike Ainscow
Denise Buckley
Martin A Chambers
Dave Bratt
Rob Hannan
Dorothy J King
Jennifer Mitchell
Mrs.Rena Blight
Wendy Storer
Barbara Haywood *
Mrs I Robinson
Beryl E Lovell
Mrs Barbara Ward
Mrs Eleanor M Miller
Muriel Thompson
Eileen Smith
Sylvia McBeth
Sheila Simey
Rita Bell
Helen M Spencer
Patricia Barnicott
Danny Turnbull
Janice Taylor
Tony Flanagan
Ethel Fisher
Olive Bland
Mrs Julia Organ
All the stories have been published as we received them... Except for the stories from * down - these were written/postal submissions which have been typed-up for publication.
