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Hushmoor: A Digital Anthology of Buried Stories, Awaiting Discovery
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Hushmoor is a FREE digital anthology designed to ignite curiosity and creativity through mystery, suspense, and storytelling.
Set in a strange town during the 80s and 90s, Hushmoor is filled with unsettling events, hidden clues, and incomplete narratives, each one inviting pupils to step in and finish the story.
What is Hushmoor?
Hushmoor Volume 1 features 10 ‘Cold Cases’
Each cold case is a rich, immersive writing stimulus that includes:
?? Cinematic gradual-reveal videos to hook attention and spark inference
?? Photo collages of evidence to explore, question, and interpret
?? Story fragments with audio narration to model tone and atmosphere
Each case reveals only part of the truth.
The rest is up to your writers.
How does it work in the classroom?
Each Cold Case is built around a simple but powerful idea: Hushmoor tried to bury the story… your writers must uncover it.
Pupils analyse the evidence, piece together what’s happened, and continue the narrative in their own way.
This makes Hushmoor ideal for:
- Sparking ideas in reluctant writers
- Developing inference and prediction skills
- Encouraging atmosphere, tension, and storytelling voice
- Providing flexible stimuli that fit any teaching approach
The Writers’ Survival Guide
Hushmoor also includes a built-in Writers’ Survival Guide, a digital eBook designed to support pupils in:
- Capturing the tone and mood of suspenseful writing
- Strengthening vocabulary choices
- Closing the vocabulary gap through purposeful language
https://hushmoor.com/writers-survival-guide
The Hushmoor Writing Competition
The Hushmoor Writing Competition gives pupils a rare and exciting opportunity:
To have their writing published as part of the Hushmoor world
Using one of the Cold Case Titles as inspiration, pupils will craft their own narrative to uncover what really happened in Hushmoor.
Selected entries will become part of the official Hushmoor collection—giving young writers the chance to see their work shared and celebrated beyond the classroom.
Why this matters:
- Writing becomes real and purposeful
- Pupils write with a genuine audience in mind
- It raises the standard of effort, detail, and creativity
- It gives children the pride of saying: “I’m a published writer.”
- For Year 6 pupils, it helps sustain motivation in the post-SATs period
Find full competition details and how to enter:
https://hushmoor.com/hushmoor-competition
Start exploring today for FREE, and be part of a writing revolution
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