Welcome to the Royal Mint Museum’s Short Story Competition pages.
We have a winner!
Based around the topic of gold, the Royal Mint Museum hosted a short story competition open to all 7- to 11-year-olds in the United Kingdom.
Congratulations to 7-year-old Marlowe Askew-Smith who won first prize for her story ‘The Gold Fox’.
Her delightful story is about a girl who makes a gold fox that comes to life and attracts the attention of a lonely king. It charmed our judge Dan Thomas, King’s Assay Master, who said: “I would read this to my own children. It’s an incredibly uplifting story that shows gold is precious to us all for many reasons other than its value”.
Marlowe has won a gold coin for herself, £25 National Book Tokens, £5,000 worth of Peters equipment and books for her school library, and her story will be illustrated by Laura K Sayers.
First Place
The Gold Fox by Marlowe Askew-Smith, 7.
Second Place
Oakley and the Mountain of Gold by Oakley Howe, 10.
Third Place
The Dragon’s Gold by Lucas Zheng, 11.
5 Runners up
Trysor y Tylwyth Teg/The Fairies’ Treasure by Buddug Williams, 9.
The Sovereign’s Journey by Valentina Sefain, 9.
The Jungle of Gold by Wren Price-Evans, 8.
Where is the Gold?/Ble Mae’r Aur? by Gigi Di Battista, 7.
GOLD by Reya Nagari, 11.
10 Highly Commended
Operation Fish by Reyad Imran-Mir, 11.
The Heist by Mason Marsh, 10.
Jamie and the Golden Secret of the Philippines by Jamie Froom, 7.
Macaroni Mouse and the Castle by Zachary Hyde, 7.
The Golden Games by Sam Plant, 8.
My Treasure Garden by Harris Gould, 8.
Gold Never Lets You Down by Kiara Gupta, 8.
The Golden Wish by Thomas Smith, 11.
The Power of Gold by Preet Kaur Bains, 8.
I Think There’s a Panda in My Back Garden by Braxton Kelsey, 7.
