Who will be published alongside JK Rowling, Doris Lessing, Neil Gaiman, Michael Rosen, Nick Hornby, Sebastian Faulks, Lauren Child, Tom Stoppard and Irvine Welsh?

To celebrate the National Year of Reading we asked 13 world-class authors and all of our customers to tell us their story. You can see our customers' stories in our gallery, and the authors' stories in our postcard book.

About the competition

They say everyone has a story in them, and over 4,000 of you have told us yours on Waterstones.com, with hundreds more customers taking their story cards to their local Waterstone's to be displayed.

The three lucky winners - two adults and one child - from the Waterstones.com and store entries will appear in a postcard book with our authors' stories.

As well as appearing alongside some of the world's greatest living writers, the national winners aged over 18 will also win an Arvon Writing Course and the under 18 winner will receive £500 of Waterstone's vouchers.

All profits from the sale of the postcard book will go to Dyslexia Action and English PEN.

The competition has now closed. The winners will be announced and contacted in July.

View the story gallery, including the winning entries (Flash Player required)