From Argentina to Bulgaria, we were thrilled to receive over 600 entries from across the globe, and to see so much creativity and talent on display.
Our judges had a great time reading all of the stories and looking at all the impressive illustrations. They also had a very hard time selecting the winners!
After careful consideration by our judging panel – which included Macmillan Readers author Chris Rose – we are delighted to announce that the winners and finalists are as follows:
7 – 12 years
WINNER: Petr Grigorev
FINALIST: Maya Asena Karakaya
FINALIST: Ksieniia Kurnosova
FINALIST: Nikita Grigoriev
FINALIST: Tomáš Demčák
13 -18 years
WINNER: Diana Lopez
FINALIST: Dana Veselá
FINALIST: Magdalena Cullen
FINALIST: Kseniya Mondokhonova
FINALIST: Giulia Murovec
19 years and over
WINNER: Kavya Bharat
FINALIST: Maria Oberyukhtina
FINALIST: Martin Fereš
FINALIST: Milica Neskovic
FINALIST: Gergely Bence
ILLUSTRATIONS
WINNER: Cover Illustration, Maria Pasatyuk
FINALIST: 7 – 12 years, Myroslava Symonenko
FINALIST: 13 – 18 years, Timur Shaidullin
FINALIST: 19 years and over, Elena Uspenskaya
As the character Dogberry says in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing;
“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”(in other words = it is in our nature to read and write)
