A 13-YEAR-OLD boy from Slough has won first prize in a national writing competition.

Ayman Mohammed, a student at Herschel Grammar School, on Northampton Avenue, scooped the award at the Henrietta Brandford Writing Competition.

The annual event for young people runs in conjunction with the Branford Boase Award.

The Branford Boase Award recognises a debut children’s author and their editor and was set up in memory of children’s writer Henrietta Branford and the editor, Wendy Boase.

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The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition aims to find and encourage writers of the future, which is something Henrietta Branford was always keen to do.

The event is open to anyone under 19-years-old and every year receives multiple entries from all over the country.

Ayman’s story called A Simulation starts with a very anxious narrator who fears is alleviated by more light-hearted events as the plot goes on.

Competition judge Prue Goodwin said: “It’s been a brilliant year for stories.

“All ends happily in Ayman’s story, via an intertextual reference to a Roald Dahl anti-hero which I loved. Well done, Ayman.”

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Ayman won a set of eight books on the shortlist for the 2022 Branford Boase Award signed by their authors.