Christmas Short Story Competition

For all our young writer's who are feeling the Christmas spirit we are holding a Christmas Short Story Competition.

The story must be 400-600 words long.

The story must have a Christmas theme and the content must be appropriate for school.

All stories must be handed in by Monday 8th January 2018.

Please put your full name and class group with the story.

To submit your story please email it to us at literacy@droghedagrammarschool.ie or via the 'contact us' section of the blog.

The competition winner will be announced at Monday 15th January and their story will be published on the blog.

The winner will also receive a prize.

The story must have a Christmas theme and the content must be appropriate for school.

Some suggested writing prompts are:

There were twelve days until Christmas and...

I stared at the Christmas tree and all the presents below it...

Somewhere out there, through the falling flakes of snow...

To be perfectly honest, I had been over Christmas since...