Abigail’s story was chosen as the winner for the ‘My First Story 2017’ The South West edition. The competition is run by Young Writers which aims to encourage young people to engage in creative writing. It has been running national poetry and creative writing competitions through schools since 1991 to achieve this.

Abigail Allwood is 7 years old and has a younger brother at pre-school. Her class Tutor is Danny Hensby who said of Abigail, “She aims high. She is a high achiever and has a lovely nature and is lovely to teach.

“She is very imaginative and quite funny”

Abigail’s winning story is reproduced in full:

Magic Door Story

One sunny day, Emma and Ben were walking the dog. Suddenly, the dog started barking at a magic door in a tree. Emma and Ben got sucked though the magic door. When they were through the magic door they found themselves standing right next to a castle!

As they went past the castle they thought, wow! They walked through the bushes and mushrooms. On one mushroom there was something! It was a fairy!

“Hello my name is violet,” said the fairy.

“Where have you come from?” asked the little fairy.

“We have come through a magic door in a tree!” replied Emma. The fairy decided that she liked the children and joined them as they searched the magic land.

The friends continued on their way and after a little while they met a stinky, smelly, green troll with flies above his head. The troll said he was called Tom Pig.

“Do you want to come to my house?” said the troll.

They arrived at the troll’s house and Emma and Ben were amazed!

“Wow!” said Ben.

“Why is your house made of ginger?” said Emma.

“Because then I can eat it when I am hungry,” replied the troll grumpily. The troll let them in and there were party hats, a cake, presents, orange juice and ice cream and a seat for Violet the little fairy.

When the party was over, they all got party bags and presents. They all got to keep their sparkly and stripy party hats. They were getting tired so they went back through the magic door and finished walking the dog.

The End.

When interviewed on BBC’s Spotlight programme, Abigail’s class mates said, “Her story is amazing and she deserves it.”

But Abigail had the last word, “I do like happy endings!”