A series of ten stories written by well-known children’s authors, including Frank Cottrell Boyce and Geraldine McCaughrean. Each story is inspired by or based on a play by William Shakespeare.

To inspire storytelling all year round, we caught up with three of our judges, Sir Lenny Henry, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Charlie Higson, who breakdown the marking criteria for 500 Words' stories.

Born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in 1958, Stephen Cottrell was educated at Belfairs High School, Leigh-on-Sea, and the Polytechnic of Central London. He found faith as a teenager through the work of youth ...

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