Competition Time
Write On Competition 2025
The WriteOn 2025 competition is held in association with the State Library of NSW.
For WriteOn 2025, students use a stimulus quote to explore their voices as authors when creating an imaginative text.
The new stimulus for WriteOn 2025 is the quote: “Could they be changing?”
WriteOn is an annual writing competition open to all NSW primary students in Years 1 to 6. Students compose an imaginative text of up to 500 words, using the above quote as the stimulus. This competition provides students with the opportunity to become published authors and showcase their creativity. Each year, winning entries are published in The Best of WriteOn anthology.
WriteOn is open to all students in Years 1 to 6 who are accessing NSW syllabuses.
• Only individual student entries can be submitted.
• All aspects of the writing process must be the student’s own work.
• Imaginative pieces may include:
• Letters, poems, interviews, journal entries or narratives
Assessment criteria
When assessing entries, judges use the following criteria:
• makes connections to the stimulus image
• engages the audience in imaginative, interpretive, emotive and/or creative ways
• maintains a consistent structure appropriate for the type of text selected
• uses a range of strategies to engage the intended audience
• uses a variety of language forms and features, vocabulary and punctuation
• considers the context, purpose and audience
• includes age-appropriate content
• is within the 500 word limit
Entry due date: Typed entries are due back by Friday 13th June, (Friday Week 7, Term 2).
Please email them to hfl@dbb.org.au with ‘Write On Competition’ in the subject line.
The Holy Family teachers will then deliberate and choose the best entry to enter for stage 1 (Year 1 & Year 2), Stage 2 (Year 3 & 4) and Stage 3 (Year 5 & 6).
‘Beyond Words’ creative writing competition
Theme: Open theme – any genre – short story (no poetry)
Form: Story (500 to 1500 words)
Age Category: Years 1 – 12.
Closing date: 1st June 2025
Organised by: Dymocks.
Submit Entry – Dymocks Beyond Words (dymockstutoring.edu.au) – save your story as a PDF and get your parents to submit it online
- Attach your work as a PDF file.
- Your name should NOT appear anywhere on the document or in the title as the competition entries are judged anonymously.
- The title of your attachment should be the title of your story.
- Write in 12pt font, Arial or Times New Roman.
- Your document must contain only text, no images.