Submit to the 2025 Spark Young Writers Anthology

Upload your writing to be part of our Anthology in 2025

This is where you can upload your work for inclusion in the Spark Anthology we will be making. An Anthology is a collection of writing - usually short stories or poems - which is made into a book. We'd love to include a piece of your writing in our book for 2025.

Note: Submission only for Young Writers who have participated in any of this year's Spark Young Writers groups

Details of the author

We need a few bits of information about you for the book. Please enter them carefully as this is the information that will be included.

First name of the author *

Please enter your first name here

Surname of the author

Please enter your last name here. You don't have to give your last name if you don't want to.

Please chose the group you have been a part of from the list below *

This should be the group you have been part of for the school year 2024-2025. If you have changed groups mid-year, please either select the one you were with longest, or the group that inspired the writing you are submitting. Note: ONLY SPARK YOUNG WRITERS CAN SUBMIT WORK FOR PUBLICATION.

Parent's Email address *

This is to keep parents updated with progress on the book and how to buy it. If you are a young writer filling this in, we will also check that parents give consent to publish your work.

Young Writer's email address

If your young writer doesn't have an address, or doesn't need to be kept informed, please leave this blank.

Submitting your writing

Below you'll be able to upload a document with your writing. Please don't send us more than 500 words as there won't be room, and we won't be able to publish it. If you want to submit poetry, we could accept up to three poems with a total number of 70 lines. Please only send us a .rtf, .doc, or .docx file. We won't be able to include any images or fancy formatting, so please keep the font simple.

Title of your piece *

Please give us a title to go at the top of your piece of writing. If you are submitting two or three poems, please give both titles separated with & or +

File Upload

Click or drag files to this area to upload. You can upload up to 2 files.

Please upload your .doc, .docx or .rtf file here. If you can't do that, below is a field where you can paste in your text. However, this may not format your writing well, so only use this as a last resort.

If you can't upload the file, you can paste your writing into this field

Be aware that using this field may result in your formatting being lost.

Submit to the 2025 Spark Young Writers Anthology

Upload your writing to be part of our Anthology in 2025

Details of the author

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