Me & the Chocolate Factory - short story competition

The competition is open to young writers of any nationality writing in English and aged between 11 – 18 years at the time of the closing date. 

The competition has two age groups:
11 – 14 years
15 – 18 years

Email a story of no more than 1000 words to: chocolatefactory@york.ac.uk by 16th August 2013

One winner will be chosen from each category. The winners will each receive a Kindle. Shortlisted entries will be included in a short story publication. Competition winners will be announced at the Chocolate and Human Rights Festival in York in October 2013.

Before you start writing, please read carefully through Me and the Chocolate Factory Guidelines (PDF , 1,064kb), get inspiration from Bite-sized facts about chocolate (PDF , 1,389kb)and learn more about the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (PDF , 37kb).