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In no specific order, our judges for TYWA 2020 have come up with a list of the stories that should compete for the Read-Worthy prize. These stories would blow your minds away. Remember, all entries were written by people between the ages of 13 and 19 (teens). Also, the Read-Worthy prize is an additional reward for whichever story YOU, the readers, love the most. It is a subsidiary prize for the readers choice, and this means that you have the total power to decide which story wins! The overall winner of TYWA 2020 is still entitled to the main prize that would be announced in December. Read up the stories below, and comment on which one you think is best. Ensure that you drop the title of your favourite story, and any other comment in the comment section. The story with the highest number of VOTES and interactions wins. Our short-story collection titled: "The Sound Of Our Own Voices" would be out in 2021, make sure you subscribe to this site to get latest updates, or enjoy eve...

  16 - ALL THROUGH THE MIRROR Akinmoyeje Timileyin Precious lives in Ondo State (19 years old). This story was slightly edited for grammatical accuracy and to better serve TGF readers. The originality of the story is 100% intact. It was just another Monday morning. Well, maybe it wasn't just another; this one felt different from the usual. I could sense something strange about the atmosphere. It was 5:00 AM. The bells of the cathedral had started tolling as usual. That day, they were passing a different message; a solemn one, a message that only I was yet to decipher. Even the wind echoed it slowly, delibrately, as though it were reiterating the solemnity of the bell's tolls. I stood at the half broken mirror - a Monday morning ritual - to brush my teeth and make out what the morning was about.  I drifted into thoughts; memories of recent years slowly became visible on the mirror: my near death experience when the news of my father's death reached me, how I almost failed an...

  03 - BLINDED TO LIGHT Abisola Emmanuella lives in Ring-Road, Ibadan (16 years old). This story was slightly edited for grammatical accuracy and to better serve TGF readers. The originality of the story is 100% intact. “You don’t need to feel love for you to understand that you are loved… You can search for it all you want but fail to realize that you had it all along.” Rebecca never understood what it meant when her grandmother told her those words before she crossed to the other side. She had always believed her grandmother’s words were too intricate for her, yet they held answers to the most difficult questions she had. She was her ‘fountain of knowledge’ but she was gone now. The moment Grandmother left her, she knew she had to start all over, on her own of course. Who else could she run to? Maybe her father who left when she was just fifteen. She knew perfectly well that wasn’t even an option. She would find a way, she had to. “Rebecca, come and wash our plates!” spoilt Angel...

  12 - A GREATER REWARD  Owolabi Gloria Abosede lives in Osun State (17 years old). This story was slightly edited for grammatical accuracy and to better serve TGF readers. The originality of the story is 100% intact. "Please... God, please." Helen shut her eyes and opened them the next second. She let out a sigh. Her eyes were glued to Jenny's lips. Just last week, she had caught Jenny formatting the flash drive containing her group assignment. She had confronted her, but Jenny had lit into her, telling her to go ahead and do her worst. She had kept the matter to herself and had done the assignment again single-handedly. Why should she tell someone, knowing Jenny would get punished if her class teacher got to know? She had forgiven her when she apologized, but she had also been afraid... afraid of what Jenny would do next in an attempt to pull ahead of her. Now that Jenny was with her in the principal's office, claiming to know the lying one between Tom and her, Hele...

  13 - FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN Ekoh Ogheneovo Prisca lives in Delta State (16 years old). This story was slightly edited for grammatical accuracy and to better serve TGF readers. The originality of the story is 100% intact. "Change," one of the earliest six-letter words a child would probably learn to spell but hardly consider as a daily lexicon had been lingering on Danielle’s teenage mind in recent time. Like Heraclitus said when he made the now-famous quote, “Change is the only constant thing in life,” five years ago, as the Nigerian elections unfolded, heralded by the change mantra, Danielle’s eleven-year-old self was in her own transition phase from primary to secondary school. Just as the excitement of change from the Nigerian electioneering process filled the air with the promise of a certain utopist society free from corruption with boisterous economic opportunities for all, so the thought of freedom as a boarder filled her eleven-year mind. Danielle, the last of seven si...

  19 - YOUR DEFINITION Oluwatola Ibikunle-Aina lives in Ibadan South-West, Oyo State (16 years old). This story was slightly edited for grammatical accuracy and to better serve TGF readers. The originality of the story is 100% intact. She ran as fast as she could. Her tears rolled violently down her cheeks. Her whole body drenched with rain. Her nose swollen, and she repeatedly gasped for air. Tiffany kept recalling the echoes of laughter in her head. She remembered the brutal words spoken to her. She waited under a shade fully aware she was out of the sight of her classmates. “She probably stole it; she is black,” she remembered. “My mum told me black people have criminal tendencies,” she remembered again. “What an unfortunate girl!” that hit her the most. She felt defined by her colour. When the rain had calmed, Tiffany went home. She walked in casually like nothing had happened. “Honey, how was school?” her mum asked with delight on her face to see her daughter. “It was fine,” a...

It's amazing! Young writers from far and near have visited the TYWA page to register their intentions of participating in our 2020 competition. We have received some submissions we can't wait to share with the world. About 200 visits to the TYWA page! What this implies is that many creative teenagers have found this contest as a playbook to register their signatures. With YOU, too, we can begin to change the narrative. The sole criterion for this year's entries is creativity. Tell a story with colourful imaginations. We want to see if your story is worth reading. Encourage your friends, children, students and other teenagers to participate in this. Just maybe this might lead to even much more. Join other teenagers who have submitted their writings. Write a story between 200 - 400 words, and stand a chance to earn all the rewarding benefits. Read up the guidelines HERE . We want more. Also, remember that submission closes on September 30, 2020. Do well to share the link of t...

We already bet our PRIZES that you know a teenager who is creative when it comes to storytelling. Here is an opportunity for that child of yours, friend or student who is a talented writer, to win our 2020 Award, free Publishing & Publicity, a Cash Prize and more. With this, we want to bring the kinds of children literature that are actually written by talented young adults to the national, continental, and global scene. We want to portray literacy as it is in Africa to the world. We want to correct the wrong impression anyone might have about the African child as we facilitate the involvement of African young writers in global literature. GUIDELINES FOR TYWA 2020 1. Write your best story yet! Ensure the word count does not exceed 400 words. (Word counts within 200-400 are advised) 2. You may write on any theme of your choice; however, it must be in the form of prose. We shall entertain only 1 story per person. 3. Participants must be within the age range of 13-19 (teenagers). 4. S...