Important notices

Fete Information- Friday May 23rd

The below two flyers came home in envelopes over the last few days.  If not received, please ask your student for them. Your support is vital to the success of the fete.

The Donald High School Rotten Ritin' Competition:

Are you a master of mediocre wordplay? A putrid poet? An artist of sentences so spectacularly bad they deserve an award? Then sharpen your quills and prepare for the literary catastrophe that is Donald High School’s ‘Rotten Ritin'’ Competition.

In homage to the late great Bulwer-Lytton Contest, where the worst opening novel line wins the highest praise, we invite students, parents, guardians, teachers, and community members to revel in the ridiculous, the overcooked, and the disastrous.

 There will be four awful categories to enter:

1.        Worst Community Story Starter – Parents, guardians, teachers, locals and anyone else.

2.        Worst Community Poetry – Parents, guardians, teachers, locals and anyone else.

3.        Worst Student Story Starter – DHS Students only.

4.        Worst Student Poetry – DHS students only.

 Entries will be judged on ridiculousness, painful phrasing, and sentences so far gone they require therapeutic help. Comedy welcome. The English department of Donald High School will be glad to present the winners with eternal infamy and literary disgrace.

 Deadline: entries close Friday week 6 (30th May)

How to Enter: All electronic submissions should be emailed to:

 Christopher.rodger@education.vic.gov.au

 Or if you prefer pen and paper, please hand your submission to Mr Rodger of Donald Highschool. Please make sure to include your name, category (and contact details if needed). 

Rules:

-              All entries must be in reasonable taste, not obscene or offensive.

-              Story starters and poems must be 150 words or less each.

-              You may enter your relevant categories only once.

-              All entries must have a clear name present in the submission email or on the paper.

As an example, to spur your creativity,

 Worst Community Poetry Example:

 An Ode to Jam

Tasty, sweet, strawberry, raspberry, homemade.

Or maybe a tart and sour marmalade?

Sweet and sticky jam.

Cosy pup, sleeps between lovers on a whim,

Don’t roll over asleep! You made jam from him.

Sweet and sticky jam.

Sweaty teens in the garage, riffs and jamming.

Crusty pits, sticky fringes, guitars whamming.

Sweet and sticky jam.

Beautifully textured toe jam, saved for months.

Too scared to savour and taste, all but once.

Sweet and sticky jam.

And if you don’t love jam,

take your opinion and jam it!

                                    -Mr Rodger

If you would like to see examples of bad story starters, please do visit:

bulwer-lytton.com, which keeps an inventory of past competition winners.

So, go forth, embrace the terrible, and let your inner writer shine. Because sometimes, writing that is bad… is just so good.

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