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WRITING COMPETITIONS 2021: VATE and Insight

VATE is proud to announce their 2021 writing competition Stories That Change.

Building on the runaway success of Stories for Strange Times, they are expanding their short story competition. They are asking for short stories no more than 1000 words in length, this time addressing the theme “Stories That Change”. In 2021 there will be four categories:

Years 7-8 students | Years 9-10 students | Years 11-12 students | Staff

Entries opened on Friday 5 February 2021 and close 5pm on Friday 25 June.

If you wish to enter this competition submit your entry to Ms Mullen by Friday 18 June as we can only submit up to five entries in each of the categories. An application form to accompany your short story entry is available as a Word document. This must be submitted along with your entry to Ms Mullen-Walsh. Find out more here!

Insight Publications Creative Writing Competition is now open for 2021.

This competition aims to ignite a passion for creative writing in secondary-school students and to inspire the voices of the future.

Themes and word count

Each story must be written to the theme: A flash of inspiration. The word count should be as outlined below.

Year 7: 400 – 800 words
Year 8: 400 – 800 words
Year 9: 600 – 1100 words
Year 10: 600 – 1100 words
Year 11: 900 – 1400 words
Year 12: 900 – 1400 words

Stories must also be accompanied by a 100-word statement that addresses at least one of the following:

your motivation for writing
your creative inspiration
your aspirations for future writing.

See:

https://www.insightpublications.com.au/writingcompetition-2/

for more information.