Latest Competitions

Gone: Creative writing competition for 11-18 year olds

1 Moment. 1 Change. 100 words. What happens when something is suddenly....Gone? A person. A place. A memory. The Internet. Time itself.

A person could vanish. The power could cut out. A memory could disappear. The whole world could change overnight....or perhaps something much stranger is gone.

'Gone' challenges you to capture the moment everything changes in just 100 words. You can take the idea anywhere. Mystery, thriller, dystopia, sci-fi, horror, humour, or something completely unexpected. What has gone? Why? And, most importantly, what happens next? Click here for more info!

Please collect an entry form from Mrs Seal if you would like to enter the competition.

Closing date: Friday 11 December

Bucks Book Award 

Please enter any work you would like to see published in the BBA newsletter, Bookcast. For example:

• Book reviews
• Movie reviews
• Poetry
• Artwork – email image files to: agslibrary@ags.bucks.sch.uk
• Top 10/ Top 5 lists
• Author visits etc.

Use this link to submit work:

Read the latest edition of Bookcast here.  

Becky High Competition Winners!

Young Writers

Congratulations to the following students who entered The Beautiful Truth Young Writers competition!

• Maya M (sixth form)
• Reiyaa Shree P (Year 8)
• Husna S (Year 7)
• Eshal K (Year 7)
• Hannah M (Year 7)
• Aaditri M(Year 7)
• Ammara A (Year 8)

Chiltern Arts Poetry Competition

We are delighted to announce that three of the entries from BHS have been selected in the shortlisted and runner-up categories of the Chiltern Arts Poetry Competition 2025.

• Maya M (sixth form) - runner-up
• Siri V (Year 7) - shortlisted
• Aaditri M (Year 7) - shortlisted

500 Words

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Y7 BHS 500 Words Competition. We received over 50 entries and the standard was very high.  The Year 12 Subject Ambassadors enjoyed reading the stories very much and decided on the following as their top three selection. 

• Mute but not silent by Ellie E (Year 7) 
• Nina M (Year 7 )
• The Last Light of Eldrith by Zaynab-Noor Z (Year 7)

The Martha Mills Young Writers' Prize

Congrats to Alice Grace Baxter in Year 9 who has been selected as a runner-up in The Martha Mills Young Writers' Prize 2024 for her story A Child of Death. You can read Alice's story here. Philip Pullman was one of the judges and Alice's story will appear in the prize winners' pamphlet with the winning entries.