The Great
ROBIN HOOD
Contest of Stories
A just-for-fun Short Story Contest for young writers, ages 9 and up.
Closed for Judging.
Huzzah and three cheers to all bold scribes who have sent in a tale!
Even now, our judges are poring over your stories – perched on the edge of their seats, at times dabbing a tear, at others laughing aloud, and oft shaking their heads in sheer amazement at your wondrous work.
Winners shall be proclaimed by email on Wednesday, the 4th of June (in the evening in New Zealand). Each winner shall be personally notified by email, and their tales – along with any Honourable Mentions – shall be displayed here upon our website.
Fare well until the grand revealing!
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NOTE WELL: Though the use of medieval tongue shall take its leave after this contest, it may, on occasion, return when the mood is most merry.
Once again, much applause and gratitude to the noble sponsors of this contest:
The Brubaker Family, Pennsylvania
Three huzzahs for our most worthy heroes! 👏👏👏
(Hearken, Noble Houses and Companies of Trade! Those who would show interest in sponsoring a future contest or giveaway – and thereby earn the praise and undying gratitude of all the realm – are bidden to seek further details here.)
The Storylights Team:
Amy Bryant
…an award-winning spinner of Fantasy Adventure tales for brave-hearted youths (soon to come), who remains a steadfast champion of young scribes.
Thor the Viking Sheep
…Chief Guardian and Mascot of Legendary Valour, who dauntlessly keeps watch for foes and offers questionable counsel, albiet with good intent.
Josh Bryant
…Master of Enchanted Webcraft, who raises 4 young hobbits with his fair lady Summer and gives counsel far surpassing that of certain woolly warriors. (Hush, say it not to Thor!)
“Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.“
― Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Privacy Policy
The Storylights
Firstly, we'll never sell or share any of your personal information with anyone else unless we're required to by law, and we only collect the minimum personal data that we need to run our services. For example, we need your name and email address so we can notify you if your competition entry has been selected for a prize, or to send you details about our next competition.
Secondly, any original story material that you send to us, either as part of a competition or not, remains your own personal intellectual property. However, by submitting your story to us, you grant us the right to display it on on our website, and we agree to always credit it to you the author. You retain full rights to your story, including the right to reuse it or resubmit it to any other competition or publication.
Terms & Conditions
The Storylights
By using this website, (for example, by submitting a form, or entering a competition or giveaway), you agree to be bound by and follow these terms and conditions:
- You agree that you are either at least 13 years old, or you have the permission of a parent or guardian to use this website.
- We understand that the name you choose to use on our website or submit with a competition entry, may be an alias or pen name (for young authors, this can be a good way to help protect your privacy), but you understand that we will treat that name like your real name, including when we provide credit to the author of a winning story.
- You agree that any written work that you submit to us as part of a competition or giveaway, is your own original work, written by you and not copied from or written by another person. (No AI work permitted.)
- You agree to not submit any written work to us that promotes or encourages violence, racism, self-harm, or any other activity that is either illegal or potentially damaging to other people.
- You keep all intellectual property rights to any of your own written material that you submit to us, but you agree to give us the right to display your work on our website as part of the services we provide. (For example, displaying competition winners and honourable mentions.)
- We reserve the right to judge competition entries at our sole discretion, and will award the winning entry based on whatever criteria we think to be fair.
- We reserve the right to exclude from competition, any entry that we feel goes against the spirit of the competition, or breaches one of our other conditions, like plagiarism.