Twelve short stories by the winners and finalists of The Write Stuff Short Story Competition 2017.

Literary powerhouse Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE has joined forces with The Sunday Times to help discover the next generation of young female writers. The Write Stuff short story competition is aimed at girls aged 11-16 and who live in the UK, and the challenge is to write a short, fictional story with a central theme of 'family', running to a maximum of 1,000 words. Barbara knows a thing or two about writing great stories. She had her first short story published when she was 10-years-old and, once she saw her name in print, she knew she wanted to be a writer. Since then, she's written 32 best-selling books which have been published in over 40 languages and in more than 90 countries and has sold over 90 million copies to date!