Forum topic: These are our spookiest young writers

And six winners chosen by a really top-drawer judging panel who were enormously complementary of what they had read. A panel good enough to make The Booker weep: 3 well published authors, a national newspaper sub editor, a past Chair of the National Literacy Association, an ex-schools Inspector and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing.

Part of the winning experience was to hear from a Professor who specialises in the belief in witchcraft, magic and ghosts; the very same professor who is currently editing the Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic.

Does anyone know why we hear of ghosts and witches in London but not fairies? These winners do. Well done to them all.

The new-Halloween, Treats without the Tricks; a Halloween based on Fun, Light and Giving. Remember, if it does go worldwide then it started right here in Palmers Green with the Palmers Scream.