The Gaelic Prize

Welcome to the 2008 Royal Mail Awards Gaelic competition, in which we want children across Scotland to write us an exciting, imaginative story in Gaelic! To help you out we have asked last year's Royal Mail Awards winner, first-class children's author Marie MacAulay (pictured), to give you a head start. Marie has written the start of an adventure with Uspaig and S-S, and left the story on a cliffhanger. Your task is simple: finish the story in anything between 250 and 500 words!

Competition rules

• Entrants must be aged between 8 and 14 years;
• Stories can be anything between 250 and 500 words in length;
• Stories must be submitted via email to: royalmailawards@scottishbooktrust.com;
• All stories must be submitted by 3^rd October 2008.

Terms and conditions

If you have been successful we will inform you by 30^th October 2008. The winning entries will be reproduced (with acknowledgement) on the Scottish Book Trust website for the purposes of promoting the Royal Mail Awards. We regret that we cannot return entries. The judges' decision is final and we will not enter into any correspondence. There are no runners-up prizes.

Please register with us so we can keep a track of schools taking part.

Download the story in Gaelic
Download the story in English

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