Have a funny, gross, or weird story about your life to tell? Here’s a comp for you!

Book cover for My Life and Other MistakesAre you between 8-13? Want to win money and other awesome prizes with your writing? Check out the My Life Short Story Competition:

How would you like to win $1000 cash, a signed set of the My Life series and $1000RRP worth of books for your school?

Sound amazing? Are you a student in Australia and aged 8–13? Do you have a story about your life that is funny, gross, weird or amazing? Well, we want to hear it!

Go to the Random House website for details on how to enter. Deadline is the 31st of August 2015.

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