The theme this year is DREAM, so if you’re an IGGY member aged between 13 – 18, send your stories of no more than 2,500 words in length, based on the theme. In addition to a cash prize of £2,000 the winner will be published in Litro and at IGGY.net. £200 will also be awarded to each of the 5 runners-up. Read some previous winners here.

Our partners IGGY have been in the news in the last couple of weeks – read what they’ve been cooking up here. IGGY is the University of Warwick’s educational social network, described as “the thinking teenager’s Facebook”.

The fourth IGGY and Litro Young Writers’ Prize will this year be judged by the BBC broadcaster, writer & journalist, John McCarthy CBE, creative writer and perhaps the UK’s greatest teacher Francis Gilbert, writer and critic Ian Sansom, award winning writer and performance poet Dean Atta and young teenage writer Simi Prasad.

For more information and to send your work