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500 WORDS 2012 Prizes

There are two age groups in this year's 500 WORDS competition - one for children aged 10 - 13, and another for children aged 9 and under. There are Gold, Silver and Bronze prizes up for grabs in each age group! Take a look at what you and your school could win if your story wows our judges...


What Could I Win?

This year, we'll award the very best story writers a TOWER OF BOOKS! It's every young bookworm's dream!

Gold rosette

Chris Evans'
height in books!

If your story comes top in your age group, you'll win a pile of books as tall as Chris - that's 1.88 metres! - and 500 books for your school library.


Gold prize - a pile of books as tall as Chris Evans and 500 books for you school
Silver rosette

Alex Jones'
height in books!

If you win second place, you'll bag youself a stack of books as tall as Chris' good friend, Alex Jones from The One Show and Strictly Come Dancing!

Silver prize - Alex Jones' height in books!
Bronze rosette

Your Own
height in books!

If you're one of our third place runners-up, you'll walk away with your own height in books!

(Sorry, no high heels or stilts allowed... that would be silly.)

Bronze prize - your own height in books

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