Author and Adventurer Steve Backshall named Judge of this year’s National Young Writers’ Awards!

The National Young Writers’ Awards returns new and improved as author, TV presenter and adventurer, Steve Backshall   is named judge for 2017. The competition, organised by Explore Learning, has been running for nine years and has inspired hundreds of thousands of children across the UK to enter.

This year, the theme is ‘The Future’ where children are encouraged to write a 500 word story set a thousand years from now in 3017.  Whether that means we’re families living in space, robots ruling the world or new species of animal roaming the wild – Explore Learning want to hear from you! 

TV presenter and adventurer, Steve Backshall is also the author of The Falcon Chronicles, the best-selling adventure fiction series for children.

He says: “I’m really excited to be the judge on this year’s National Young Writers’ Awards.  Writing was my first love and I think it’s so important for children to let their imaginations run wild and have a go at entering writing competitions like this!”

Children can enter now at explorelearning.co.uk/youngwriters for a chance to win a family trip to Disneyland as well as £500 worth of books for their school and a trophy!

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