If you’re aged 8-13, you can enter the North of Nowhere Creative Writing Competition to write a story of up to 500 words using the opening lines of North or Nowhere by Liz Kessler as your starting point. You could win a digital camera, £100 worth of books for our school and have your story published on the Guardian Children’s Books website!
Read these top tips by Liz Kessler for some inspiration.
Closing date Thursday 28th March.
Are you fed up with the way young people are viewed by society and portrayed in the media? Now’s the time to have your say.
The challenge is simple: you must write an original poem expressing your thoughts about perceptions and attitudes towards young people in today’s society. The competition is open to pupils aged between 11-16.
Click on the icon above to go to the website for more details. Deadline 29 March 2013
Renaissance Place and Raintree are challenging secondary school students to annotate and illustrate one of the following scenes/chapters in a graphic novel style consisting of no more than 12 panels:
| Fantastic prizes are available to be won courtesy of Raintree Publishers, including an Amazon Kindle for the winning student, £100 worth of books for the winning school and a set of Shakespeare and classic graphic novels – such as Macbeth and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow . |
| Entries should be submitted to Mrs Üstün by 25th March 2013. |
Enjoy writing but need a little bit of inspiration and a goal to get started?
Why not enter this year’s Inspired? Get writing competition? The National Galleries of Scotland are challenging you to explore their collection of drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, photography or installation for some inspiration. You can write in prose or poetry. Closing date for entries is Friday 18 January 2013. Get writing!!
Could you write a short story that author Morris Gleitzman thinks is a winner?
The fabulously funny author of books including Two Weeks With the Queen, Misery Guts and the trilogy Once, Then and Now is going to be the judge in The Guardian’s summer short story competition.
There are two age categories: 7-11 and 12-14, and your story must start with this sentence:
Dad was flabbergasted when I told him the news…
And then it’s down to you how it continues and finishes!
Your story must be no more than 500 words and must be all your own work. The closing date for entries is Sunday the 1st of July, so get writing now!!
Click here for more information and details of how to enter!
Calling all budding authors! The Wicked Young Writers’ Award is FREE to enter and entries can range from any genre including stories, poems, drama and can even include illustrations. The award is open to young people aged between 5 and 25 years old on the closing date of 31 July 2012. Entries must be no longer than 750 words! Click here for more information. Get writing!!!
What are you reading over the holidays?
Add your reviews in the comments and you could win a mystery prize!
Congratulations to all members of the Junior Reading Group who took part in the WBD film, and many thanks to Mrs Urquhart, Mr Hogg and last, but not least, Mr Murray for donating their time and acting talents to our production. We won a storytelling workshop with Bea Ferguson, and gift vouchers worth £250 from John Lewis. You can see what happened in the following clip.
Here’s our entry for the City Council World Book Day competition.
Check out the others at https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ac/WorldBookDayVideo/
