The BBC Young Writers’ Award with First Story and Cambridge University is for writers aged between 14 to 18? The five writers shortlisted will have their stories broadcast on a special BBC Radio 1 Life hacks podcast, and published in an anthology. The winner will also receive a personalised mentoring session with an author.

All you have to do is submit a short story (up to 1,000 words) on a topic of your choice.

Deadline 

9am (GMT) Monday 25th March 2019.

The judging panel will be former teacher and Betty Trask Award winner, Anthony Cartwright; Waterstones Prize and YA Bookseller Prize winning-YA writer, Patrice Lawrence; winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year children’s author, Kiran Millwood Hargrave; and writer, rapper and world-record breaking human beatboxer, Testament. Testament is also a writer-in-residence here at Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Cw8SJ3SH3hxMqD2dblmrdr/the-bbc-young-writers-award-is-open-for-2019