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Shortlisted for the 2026 Ruth Rendell Award
Posted on February 14, 2026
The Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) and the National Literacy Trust have announced the shortlist for the 2026 Ruth Rendell Award, w…
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…
Ideas to entertain lockdown children from Katherine Rundell!
Posted on April 28, 2020
Here are some brilliant ideas to entertain lockdown children. Award-winning children’s author, Katherine Rundell, has edited The Book of Hopes: Words and Pictures to Comfort, Inspire and Entertain Chi…
Write At Home 2
Posted on March 25, 2020
Are the children eating the furniture? Are you getting no work done whatsoever? Is Joe Wicks reducing you to a gibbering wreck? QUICK! A ten minute creative writing reprieve, just long enough to…