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Series 6: 1. 500 Words 2024
The UK’s biggest children’s story-writing competition, 500 Words, is back for 2024!\n\nTo celebrate, presenters Joe Tasker and Shereen Cutkelvin take primary pupils inside a props warehouse, home to thousands of objects used to tell stories on stage, TV and in films.\n\nWith the help of 500 Words, judges Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Charlie Higson and Francesca Simon, along with a team of young storytellers, we’ll discover that even the most everyday object can inspire an epic story.\n\nAuthor and actor Nathan Bryon shares his top tips on creating an interesting character and thrilling plot, and the 500 Words judges answer your questions live!\n\nFollowing this Live Lesson, children will have all the tools to write their own 500 Words story and enter the competition, which opens on Tuesday 24 September and closes on Friday 8 November at 9pm.
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