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The Litro & IGGY Young Persons Short Story Award was a collaboration between Litro Magazine and IGGY (International Gateway for Gifted Youth) at Warwick University. Our aim was to encourage creative young people to showcase their writing talents and for them to gain recognition and praise for their efforts. After having received a huge volume of entries, our panel of judges whittled it down to a final shortlist. This has become a final four – yes, the entries were so good that we have three runners up, not two!
Our Winners
The winner of the 2010 Litro & IGGY Young Persons Short Story Award is:
Callum Cleary, aged 12, with ‘Points of View’
Our runners up and their stories are:
Ayesha Drury, ‘Becoming’
Audrey Saltarelli, ‘Holding Joy’
Emma Pierce, ‘A Secret Day to Remember’
The winner wins £2,500 in prize money and will see their work posted at a London Tube Station – Angel (keep your eyes out for the poster featured above!). It will also appear in print in Litro Magazine. You will also be able to read the stories by the runners up here at www.litromagazine.com. We would like to thank Warwick University and the IGGY Foundation for the beginning of what is going to prove to be a great opportunity for young budding writers for the beginning of what is going to prove to be a great opportunity for young budding writers. If all learning institutions and schools online held the same awards, young writers would benefit so much. A big thank you also to this years judges (Sadie Jones, Peter Blegvad, Laura Dockrill and Kate Williams) and artbelow.co.uk.
The Shortlist
A special mention also goes to the young writers who made the judges’ shortlist. They are as follows (alphabetically by first name):
Abbie Taylor, ‘Free at Last’
Ahia Fego, ‘Carbon Copy’
Amber McCall, ‘Putita Sucia’
Anna Davies, ‘The Wedding’
Emma Wood, ‘A Simple Push’
Frank Palmer, ‘Fleet Street’
Jamie Williams, ‘Looking at Pie’
Kate Baguley, ‘Jolly Japes at St. Jonquils’
Marie Antonini, ‘The Road She Took’
Robert Harding, ‘Endless’
Sam Maybee, ‘The Greatest Train Mystery’
