Please consider these opportunities:
South Australian English Teachers Association
(SAETA)
YOUNG WRITERS AWARD 2024
Click here to find out the details of this competition.
YOUNG WRITER'S AWARD COMPETITION INFORMATION - entries close Friday 17 May 2024
The Young Writers Award is open to all South Australian students from Reception to Year 12.
It is free of a topic.
SAETA Young Writers’ Award TERMS AND CONDITIONS Please read carefully.
If you are interested, please see Mr Finch or Mrs Rieger.
It is important that we read your entry prior to submission.
Competition closing date: May 17 20234
(Please make contact well in advance of this date.)
(SAETA)
YOUNG WRITERS AWARD 2024
Click here to find out the details of this competition.
YOUNG WRITER'S AWARD COMPETITION INFORMATION - entries close Friday 17 May 2024
The Young Writers Award is open to all South Australian students from Reception to Year 12.
It is free of a topic.
SAETA Young Writers’ Award TERMS AND CONDITIONS Please read carefully.
- Entries are open to all South Australian students from Reception to Year 12 Entries may be up to 1000 words.
- Submissions must: · Be typed and in WORD format only and saved as the title of the entry
- Be the original unaided work of the student named (not assisted by an adult or teacher)
- Be emailed to [email protected] subject YWA 2024 Entry after the entry form has been submitted Multiple attachments may be sent via email, but each entry must have a separate online entry form completed.
- Share Drive links are NOT accepted.
- Short listed finalists from each category will be contacted and invited to the Awards presentation night.
- All published authors will receive a complimentary printed copy of Opinion (SAETA Journal).
- Prize categories for both Poetry and Prose are: R/1, 2/3, 4/5/6, 7/8, 9/10, 11/12. There are also additional prizes offered. Entries Close: 17th May 2024
If you are interested, please see Mr Finch or Mrs Rieger.
It is important that we read your entry prior to submission.
Competition closing date: May 17 20234
(Please make contact well in advance of this date.)
2024 CONCORDIA COLLEGE WRITING AWARDS
YEAR 7 - YEAR 11
You may like to enter a piece of your writing into the Concordia College Writing Awards. Check with your English teacher for more information. Mr Finch will also send an email asking for submissions later in the year.
The Concordia Writing Awards are prizes (book vouchers) for great pieces of writing that have been written by Concordia students over the course of the year. You are invited to submit pieces of original work that you have written this year, of up to 1000 words in length. The form of writing is up to you – for example, you could submit stories, book chapters, poems or essays. They may or may not have been written for a school assignment.
The conditions are:
YEAR 7 - YEAR 11
You may like to enter a piece of your writing into the Concordia College Writing Awards. Check with your English teacher for more information. Mr Finch will also send an email asking for submissions later in the year.
The Concordia Writing Awards are prizes (book vouchers) for great pieces of writing that have been written by Concordia students over the course of the year. You are invited to submit pieces of original work that you have written this year, of up to 1000 words in length. The form of writing is up to you – for example, you could submit stories, book chapters, poems or essays. They may or may not have been written for a school assignment.
The conditions are:
- The piece must have been entirely written and edited by you, without assistance from any person or robot! All entries will be uploaded to Turnitin
- The piece must have been written this year and not submitted previously.
- The piece should be submitted as an attachment on an email to: [email protected]. Write ‘CC Writing Award Entry’ as the subject of the email.
- Whatever the file was originally named, please rename it with your name and your year level. The title of the piece and your name and year level should also appear on the document itself.
- Entries must be submitted to Mr Finch by Week 6 Term 4.
PENS AGAINST POVERTY
Pens Against Poverty is a unique writing competition for school students in Years 3-10, reaching students across Australia. The winners are announced in Anti-Poverty Week.
Details of the 2024 competition will be released later this year.
If you are interested in submitting an entry please meet with Mrs Rieger to submit your entry. You can write poetry or prose.
See the How to Enter information here.
See previous winning entries here.
Please look at these supporting materials for some inspiration.
Pens Against Poverty is a unique writing competition for school students in Years 3-10, reaching students across Australia. The winners are announced in Anti-Poverty Week.
Details of the 2024 competition will be released later this year.
If you are interested in submitting an entry please meet with Mrs Rieger to submit your entry. You can write poetry or prose.
See the How to Enter information here.
See previous winning entries here.
Please look at these supporting materials for some inspiration.
If you are interested in the "Pens against poverty competition" please see Mrs Rieger. Competition closes mid September 2024. (Please make contact well in advance of this date.)
POEM FOREST: Australian Poetry competition
Write a poem – plant a tree! POEM FOREST is a free Nature Poetry Prize that literally breathes life back into the world that sustains us. Created by Red Room Poetry, in collaboration with The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan, POEM FOREST deepens our connection with nature by inviting students, teachers and communities to create and publish poems inspired by the natural environment. For every poem received, a native tree will be planted in the Australian Botanic Garden to help heal critically endangered habitats and create a POEM FOREST for future generations.
The 2022 POEM FOREST encouraged young people to use their words to make positive climate action through poetry. All POEM FOREST entries were published and went in the running for $5,000 worth of prizes, including $500 cash for each category, book packs from Copyright Agency and Magabala Books, as well as Garden tours, trees and publication opportunities. In 2022, 5700+ poem trees were planted to grow a POEM FOREST for future generations.
Categories of entry
Details of the 2024 competition will be published here in March when the competition opens. In 2023, the closing date for the competition was September.
Check out these beautiful poems written by four Concordia College students for the competition in 2021.
Here is a complete list of winners from 2023 and you can also read the judge's report.
Please make contact with Mrs Rieger if you would like to enter this competition in 2024.
POEM FOREST: Australian Poetry competition
Write a poem – plant a tree! POEM FOREST is a free Nature Poetry Prize that literally breathes life back into the world that sustains us. Created by Red Room Poetry, in collaboration with The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan, POEM FOREST deepens our connection with nature by inviting students, teachers and communities to create and publish poems inspired by the natural environment. For every poem received, a native tree will be planted in the Australian Botanic Garden to help heal critically endangered habitats and create a POEM FOREST for future generations.
The 2022 POEM FOREST encouraged young people to use their words to make positive climate action through poetry. All POEM FOREST entries were published and went in the running for $5,000 worth of prizes, including $500 cash for each category, book packs from Copyright Agency and Magabala Books, as well as Garden tours, trees and publication opportunities. In 2022, 5700+ poem trees were planted to grow a POEM FOREST for future generations.
Categories of entry
- Lower primary (F–Year 3)
- Upper primary (Years 4–6)
- Lower secondary (Years 7–9)
- Upper secondary (Years 10–12)
- Threatened Species (F–12)
Details of the 2024 competition will be published here in March when the competition opens. In 2023, the closing date for the competition was September.
Check out these beautiful poems written by four Concordia College students for the competition in 2021.
Here is a complete list of winners from 2023 and you can also read the judge's report.
Please make contact with Mrs Rieger if you would like to enter this competition in 2024.