Glow Blogs – Aberdeen

The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025 is now open for entries. The competition is open to anyone aged 11-17.  It is FREE to enter and you can submit as many poems as you wish. Poems must be 40 lines or shorter. The deadline to enter your poem(s) is midnight 31 July 2025. Visit the competition website for more information.

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Writers aged 16+ are invited to write a gothic story inspired by the city of Aberdeen, with the chance to win £300. The competition winner and runner-up(s) will be announced at the 2025 WayWORD Festival in October. To enter, short stories between 3,000-4,000 words should be submitted as Word Documents or PDFs by the 31st of July 2025. If you’re looking for inspiration, visit the Fear and Fascination exhibition at the University of Aberdeen’s Sir Duncan Rice Library. For more details, go to the competition website.

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The Scottish Wildlife Trust would like your stories of Scotland’s wildlife and wild places within the theme: From source to sea. Whether it’s a memorable moment on a riverside walk or an amazing experience at one of Scotland’s seabird colonies, they would love to hear about it. Submissions can be up to 1,000 words long and written in any form: poem, letter, short story, essay, or song lyrics. The deadline for entries 12 July. Visit the competition website for more information.

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Our school library now has a subscription to                                          What on Earth! magazine 🙂 Each issue is bursting with fascinating facts and articles, photos, quizzes, puzzles, and so much more. You can read the magazines in the library, but if you’d like to complete the puzzles and quizzes ask Mrs Üstün for a photocopy. Although you can’t borrow the library’s copies, you can access the magazines at home by reading them online.   As well as the current issue you can read

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Thursday 6th of March is World Book Day 2025! Get your £1 voucher from Mrs. Üstün or your English teacher.  Use it to get a free £1 WBD book or get £1 off a book of your choice. Why not enter one of our school’s WBD competitions? S1-S6 World Book Day Competition 2025 (deadline lunchtime Fri 7th March) Can you win this year’s competition?  Link here. S1-S2  Design a National Book Token Competition (deadline lunchtime Fri 7th March)   S1-S3  Book-to-screen proposal for  World Book Day (deadline lunchtime Fri 7th March) If you’d like to make a physical booklet, ask

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If you love writing, why not enter this year’s Henrietta Branford Writing Competition. This year’s theme for the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition is inspired by the book that won the Branford Boase Award in 2024, Steady For This by Nathanael Lessore. Nathanael’s book is bright, funny, joyful, and fresh, making readers laugh out loud. What the judges of the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition are looking for this year are pieces of writing that will put smiles on their faces and, even better, make them chuckle or laugh out loud! You may choose whatever you want to write from the following:

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