We would sincerely like to thank ALLof you that entered our Australian Creative Writing Challenge for 2018. Presented across Australia, this national competition attracted over 1,000 entries from readers aged 7-12 years. As you can imagine, judging the winners was an extremely difficult process but with the help of our partners from Penguin Random House and authors Tristan Bancks, Jacqueline Harvey & Oliver Phommavanh we managed to narrow it down and choose the following well deserved junior writers as our 2018 champions. Stay tuned for Issue 2 of Just Kidding 2019 where we feature each of the winning stories for you all to enjoy and once again a huge thanks to everyone that entered. The effort and calibre of your stories was incredible and we look forward to running the competition again in 2019!
OLIVER PHOMMAVANH
JACQUELINE HARVEY
TRISTAN BANCKS