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The Last Wild – the play!
Posted on April 30, 2025
Delighted to announce that The Last Wild is going to be a play, in a new version for primary school audiences, adapted by Jude Christian from the awa…
Wild About Writing Tip 3: Exciting Events
Posted on August 31, 2020
This week my writing tip is on how to fill your story with EXCITING EVENTS, that keep the reader turning the page… These tips are for anyone entering my #WildaboutWriting creative writing competitio…
Winner of National Writing Day Challenge announced
Posted on August 30, 2020
Thank you for all your brilliant story entries for my National Writing Day challenge! It was very hard to choose a winner, but one story stood out, for its super creative response to the brief, and th…
Wild About Writing Tip 2: Creating Cool Characters
Posted on August 21, 2020
It’s Week 2 of my #WildAboutWriting competition with Blackwell’s and Hachette Children’s. Here’s my second writing tip for every 7-12 year old trying to win £500 of books for their school library. Tod…
Wild About Writing Tip 1: WILD IMAGINATION
Posted on August 13, 2020
Each week of my #Wildaboutwriting competition with Blackwell’s Bookshop and Hachette Children’s I’m going to be sharing a different creative writing tip. This week, how to let your imagination really…
National Writing Day Challenge
Posted on June 25, 2020
For #NationalWritingDay here is a mini story competition! https://www.pierstorday.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/National-Writing-Day.mp4 Send your children’s responses to story@pierstorday.co.uk Th…
Paul Torday Prize Shortlist 2020 announced
Posted on May 21, 2020
The Paul Torday Memorial Prize is awarded to a first novel by a writer over 60. The prize includes a set of the collected works of British writer Paul Torday (my father), who published his first nove…