Want Personalised Feedback on Your Story?
We're offering an optional paid upgrade for those young writers who would love a personalised feedback email after the contest. We'll go back over your entry, highlighting its strengths and suggesting ways to grow. Our focus will be on helping you advance your writing skills.
(While we'd like to send feedback for free, the volume of entries we receive means we can only provide this service for those who'd particularly value the personal input.)
This feedback upgrade is for an introductory price of $5 USD per person.
The Storylights Team:
Amy Bryant
...an award-winning writer of Children's & YA Fantasy Adventure (coming soon), who loves cheering on young writers.
Thor the Viking Sheep
...Chief Bodyguard and Mascot of Epicness, who dauntlessly watches out for enemies and gives well-meaning (if unhelpful) advice.
Josh Bryant
...master of fancy website stuff, who raises 4 little hobbits with his lovely wife Summer and gives much better advice. (Don't tell Thor.)
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
– C.S. Lewis
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.