WIN $500 a student, $5000 for your school and a chance to have your story published!
Written Portraits, teenagers writing competition is a collaborative effort by Forming Circles Pty Ltd and Green Olive Press.
Our aim is to showcase young Australian Writing talent and provide a creative platform for expression of inner feelings and emotions associated with being a teenager.We can all benefit in knowing and understanding how it is to live a teenage life.
Eligible entrants, students from the Sutherland Shire and our sponsors edval Timetables client schools will be asked to write a short story of between 800 and 1200 words that is as descriptive as a painting. Their story can include any issue that is important to them; in doing so it will give them a voice during this often emotional and exciting time of their lives. It could be about themselves, a personal situation they have been in, a teacher they admire, a bully they wish to confront, or a place or person that is special to them.
Entries will be judged by a panel of experts. The winning writers in both categories (13 to 15 years and 16 to 18 years) will each receive $500 with his or her school receiving $5000 for its literacy program. Closing date is 30th June 2012.
We want to inspire and motivate students, to explore their skills by encouraging them to enter our competition. We want to give them their voice and honour them for courageously exploring themselves and their literary talents.
The competition is unique in that we will publish an anthology of work from chosen entrants. This book will then be made available throughout the entrants’ schools and will also be for sale at selected retailers through Green Olive Press. Any proceeds made from the sale of books will be used to fund ‘Written Portraits Competition 2013’.
We would like to give a big thank you to our sponsor edval Timetables for working with us in presenting the Written Portraits 2012 Writing competition.
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