Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize Closing date: 31 October 2017. Prizes: £750, £500, web publication Free entry. Looking for: Fiction and non-fiction interpretations, 1,000- 1,500 words, by young writers aged 18-25, of the Benjamin Franklin quote: 'If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.' Email: info@benjaminfranklinhouse.org  Website: www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org Young Walter Scott Prize Closing date: 31st October 2017. Prizes:Entries will be judged in two categories 11 to 15yrs and 16 to19 yrs. The winners of each category will be offered a travel and research grant to further explore historical places in the UK, and an invitation to the Borders Book Festival in Melrose, Scotland, in June >2018, to receive their prizes from the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. Two runners-up in each category receive a £100 book token, and all four winning stories are published in a special YWSP anthology book. Entry fee:Free to enter. Theme: Historical Fiction. Looking for: a piece of creative writing between 800 and 2000 words, inspired by any aspect of the past  an actual historical event, place or person.  It just has to be set in a time before you were born  a time recognisably different from the present.  By creative writing we mean prose stories, poetry or drama  and they can be in the form of diaries, letters of reportage. Website: www.ywsp.co.uk