The Shropshire Bookfest Reading Panel has had a WONDERFUL time reading almost 1,000 books written by children all over Shropshire, who’ve been taking part in our Readers to Writers 2025 project.

Huge congratulations to everyone for all your amazing work!

We’re thrilled that the winning stories for each year group have been narrated by our brilliant team of author-mentors. Between them, they set all the children off on their writing adventures with their inspiring creative writing workshops at the start of the project. Click here to enjoy!

And you’ll also find links to some of the other books that wowed the Bookfest Reading Panel, which we’ve published on our website as flipbooks.

Before you head over there, here’s a little video that our friends at Highly Flammable Studios have put together to announce the prizewinners.