Tudor Characters Competition
In August 2011 The Anne Boleyn Files held a special article competition inspired by Sandra Byrd’s novel, “To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn”, which told Anne Boleyn’s story through the eyes of her childhood friend and lady, Meg Wyatt.
Entrants had to write about a Tudor character, other than Anne Boleyn, who fascinated them. The brief was that the article should contain a brief bio plus an explanation of why the writer found the character so interesting. Our judges picked one overall winner who won a $50 Anne Boleyn Files voucher and a copy of “To Die For” and four runners-up who won copies of the novel.
The judges enjoyed reading every single article so a big thank you to all who entered.
Winner
- Lady Jane and Me – Nancy Smith
Runners-up
- Sir Henry Norris by Lana Norris
- Sir Thomas Cromwell by Linda M. Hart
- Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder: The Unfinished Story by Libby Schofield
- Katherine Howard by Arielle Kaplan
Other Entries
- George Boleyn by Lauren Duddell
- Eternally Lovesick: The Life of Thomas Wyatt by Maya Crowe-Barnes
- Cunning Master Cromwell by Laurie Ellinghausen Callan
- Mary Boleyn: The Unknown Sister by Sarah Bryson
- Lady Jane Grey: Queen for Nine Days by Julie Webster
- Elizabeth of York: The Destiny of a Princess by Alison Shiels
- Elizabeth Tudor by Christine Jason
- Anne of Cleves: Revenge of the Repulsed by Jackie Jones
- Queen Elizabeth I of England by Ashley Currier
- The Forgotten Queen and Woman: Lady Jane Grey by Jennifer Broderick
- Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford by Camille Green
- The Polarization of Henry Tudor’s Wives: Jane Seymour by Niki A. Incorvia
- The Rose without a Thorn: Catherine Howard by Courtnie Harrison
- Elizabeth Howard by Callum Metcalfe
- Elizabeth I by Morgan Ravenwood
- Elizabeth I by Kari Schrecengost
- To Deny a Queen In: Lady Jane Grey by Jamie Uy
- Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland by Jenny Nicholas
- Mary Boleyn by Karissa Baker
- Lady Jane Grey by Laura Reed
- Catherine Howard by Nanette Baker
- Papa Boleyn: Satan in Disguise by Maddy Mikinski
- The Heartbreaker: Henry Percy by Karol Freitas
- The Honorable and forgotten Queen Elizabeth of York by Ingrid Camargo da Motta
- The Lady Jane Grey: Queen for Nine Days by Deanna Candler
- The Favorite Mistress Unveiled: Mary Boleyn by Samridhi Khanna
- Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and mother of a Queen of England by Danielle Hendrickson
- Tom Butler, Elizabeth’s ‘Black Husband’, by Valerie Christie
Congratulations to all! I look forward to reading each one.
Oh wish I’d seen this before. I love the lesser known characters of the Tudor period, I like being creative with them, characters such as Chidioch Tichborne ( poet and Babbington plotter) Mark Smeaton, Robert Aske and St Robert Southwell ( St and martyr of the reformation, who’s family line had a connection with the Boleyns) also St Margaret Pole countess of Salisbury and also Anne Askew, these people have tragical lives and the ones with the tragical lives with not so much about them are the ones that really appeal to me. I hope there is chance to do something like this again.