Budding writers are invited to compete in a writing competition and win a trip to Denmark to see the home of Hans Christian Anderson in Copenhagen. Entries, from primary students between 10 and 13 years and second-level students between 12 and 15, can be in prose or poetry and in Irish or English, on any subject, under 1,000 works and written by fountain pen or ball-point pen.

Send entries to AT Cross Writers of the Future Awards, Casita, Saval Park Crescent, Dalkey, Co Dublin, before Friday, January 29th. Entry forms have been sent to schools. For information, phone Alma Feeley or Deirdre Keane at (01) 678 9333.