Children's

Children's writing competitions are judged on the manuscript itself: the voice a young reader follows, the length a small hand can hold, the ending that lands without explanation. Entries here run from picture book texts to longer fiction, and the writing is weighed on how it sounds read aloud to a child.

The Daisy Utemorrah Award is the one listing here, and it is built around a single manuscript rather than a shelf of finished books. That separates it from the Comics tag, where entries arrive as drawn panels and lettering. A children's contest asks for a voice a young reader can follow aloud, and for a story that holds up when an adult is not in the room.