The Stimulus

The Year 10 English cohort of 2025 were given a range of stimuli and tasked with crafting a dystopian extract inspired by one of the images or extracts below. They were required to integrate the conventions of the dystopian genre and a range of other language techniques to create the orientation and complication of a dystopian narrative.

Take a look at the stimuli below and then click through to read nine outstanding stories which were selected for this showcase. Each of them does something particularly great: developing a vivid world, a dynamic character or a unique authorial voice that keeps the reader hooked!