Visit the 500 WORDS 2013 website for the latest news on this year's competition.
2012's Winning Stories!
9 Years Old and Under
10-13 Years Old
Chris says a huge THANK YOU to all those who took part and CONGRATULATIONS to our Gold, Silver and Bronze winners. Don't forget you can still read, listen to or download every one of the top shortlisted stories in our 2012 competition.
Words, Words, Words...
We teamed up with the Children's Dictionary and Language team at Oxford University Press to analyse the words children used in the stories entered in 500 Words 2012. Did you know...
- The most commonly used word was 'door'
- 351,731 exclamation marks were used!
Download our report for more fun language facts.
(PDF, 172kb; right click and choose 'save as')
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500 WORDS 2011
Read the Top 50 stories entered in last year's competition.
