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,
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
Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is an American retired journalist and television news anchor. He was a reporter for '' NBC Nightly News'' starting in 1993, before his promotion to anchor and managing editor of the broadcast in 2004. ...
,
Kevin Brooks,
Lucy Christopher,
Rachel Ward
Rachel Claire Ward (born 12 September 1957) is an English-Australian ,
M. G. Leonard, Rachel Grinti,
Kiran Millwood Hargrave 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'' ( ...
'' 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The annual competition is for full manuscripts suitable for readers aged between 7 and 18 by unpublished, unagented writers.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, 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, 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)
See also
*
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 ...
References
External links
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Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competitioninformation page
Children's book publishers
Publishing companies established in 2000
Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Scholastic Corporation
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