The Chicken House is a publishing company owned by

Scholastic Corporation Scholastic Corporation () is an American multinational publishing, education, and media company that publishes and distributes books, comics, and educational materials for schools, parents, and children. Products are distributed via retail and on ...

, specialising in

children's fiction Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's ...

. Founded in 2000 by Barry Cunningham and Rachel Hickman as Chicken House Publishing, it was bought by Scholastic in 2005. It has introduced many new successful authors, including

Cornelia Funke Cornelia Maria Funke () (born 10 December 1958) is a German author of children's fiction. Born in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia, she began her career as a social worker before becoming a book illustrator. She began writing novels in the late 19 ...

Roderick Gordon Roderick Gordon (born November 1960) is the author of ''Tunnels'', a bestselling children's book and the first book in the ''Tunnels'' series by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. Biography Born in November 1960, Roderick grew up in Highgate ...

and Brian Williams, Kevin Brooks,

Lucy Christopher Lucy Christopher is a British/Australian author best known for her novel '' Stolen'', which won the Branford Boase award 2010 in the UK, and the 2010 Gold Inky in Australia. Her second book, ''Flyaway'', was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book A ...

Rachel Ward Rachel Claire Ward (born 12 September 1957) is an English-Australian

, M. G. Leonard, Rachel Grinti,

Kiran Millwood Hargrave Kiran Millwood Hargrave (born 29 March 1990) is a British poet, playwright and novelist. Life Hargrave was born on 29 March 1990 in London. She graduated from Cambridge University in 2011, and Oxford University in 2014. Career She started writ ...

and Jasbinder Bilan. ''The Story So Far'', retrieved 18 June 2012 It is the UK publisher of the multi-million bestselling Maze Runner series.

The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition

The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition was launched in 2008 by Chicken House and ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...

'' newspaper. The annual competition is for full manuscripts suitable for readers aged between 7 and 18 by unpublished, unagented writers. The grand prize is a publishing contract worth £10,000. In 2019 a second prize was introduced to mark the competition's tenth anniversary, with a publishing contract worth £7,500 awarded to the Chairman's Choice. Terms and Conditions can be found on the Chicken House website. Winners of the Competition in Chronological Order * 2008: Emily Diamand, Flood Child * 2009:

Sophia Bennett Sophia Bennett (born 1966) is a British children's writer, author of several novels for young adults. Her debut novel ''Threads'', won the Times/Chicken House competition in 2009, and in 2017 ''Love Song'' won the Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel ...

, Threads * 2010: Janet Foxley, Muncle Trogg * 2011: Kieran Larwood, Freaks * 2012: Fletcher Moss, Poison Boy * 2013: Wendy Constance, Brave * 2014: Kerr Thomson, The Sound of Whales * 2015: Laurel Remington, The Secret Cooking Club * 2016: Nicki Thornton, The Last Chance Hotel * 2017: Jasbinder Bilan, Asha & the Spirit Bird * 2018: Trudi Tweedie, The Pure Heart * 2019:

Efua Traoré Efua Traoré is a Nigerian-German story writer. She won the regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2018 and was nominated for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2022. Life and career Traoré was born and raised in a small town in the s ...

, Children of the Quicksands * 2019: Richard Pickard, The Peculiar Tale of the Tentacle Boy (Chairman's Choice) * 2020: Varsha Shah, Adjay and the Mumbai Rail Times * 2020: Fran Hart, The Other Ones (Chairman's Choice) * 2021: Emily Randall, The Flood Child * 2021: Alison Stegert, The Remarkables (IET 150 Award)

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