Competition: Back to school

Spectator literary competition No. 2823

This week’s assignment offers an opportunity to put yourselves into the 8-year-old shoes of future heads of state or literary giants. You are invited to submit a school essay or poem written at the age of eight by any well-known person, living or dead, entitled ‘My Pet’.

Please email entries, of up to 16 lines or 150 words, to lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 6 November.

Here are the results of this week’s challenge, in which competitors were asked to supply a postscript to any well-known novel.