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What’s Your Story? creative writing and illustration programme

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Scottish Book Trust have just launched an initiative to find young Scots aged between 14 and 17 who want to develop their creative writing or illustration. The press release states that they are looking for:

…seven young people aged between 14 and 17 years old, with enthusiasm for developing as writers or illustrators. This can include prose, poetry, storytelling, illustration, graphic novel writing, song-writing, writing for TV and film, journalism, blogging and writing for video games and more.

This is a fantastic opportunity if you see your future in any of these areas – talk to your Art, Music, English or Graphics teacher if you are interested in taking part.

New twitter competition

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James Dashner, author of Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials has a new competition on twitter! Click on the link, make your choice, have a go, and see what happens…

Project Petra

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Blue-Peter-ship-logoBlue Peter has just launched a competition to find three CBBC Intelligence Officers (spies), with a chance to actually go inside MI5… It is called Project Petra, and Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Ryder books, will be one of the judges. Click on this link, or the picture to have a look at the details of the competition.

Generation Diary

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generation diaryThe Anne Frank Trust are sponsoring Generation Diary – a project which is attempting, over the next year, to create the world’s biggest digital diary. You must be between thirteen and fifteen, (as this is how old Anne Frank was when she was writing her diary) and you can enter as many diary entries as you want. There are prizes to be won if your diary entry is chosen for publication in Generation Diary.

Click on the logo to find out more.

100 Greatest Reads

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booksThis year, the Higher English classes are having a competition to see who can read the most of the BBC’s 100 Greatest Reads before the end of the school term. We invite you to also take part in this mass reading event. Most of the books on the list can be found in the library, and the list itself can be found on the BBC website. There will soon be a leaderboard up saying which classes have read what, so we can all keep tabs! Place your bets in at the school office (just kidding).

The Penguin Chalke Valley History Prize 2014

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chalkevalleyIt’s been a while since there was an interesting writing competition around, but this one looks well worth a look. The Penguin Chalke Valley History Prize is for a historical story which is fiction, but based on well-researched fact, and which includes a real historical character. To find out more click on the icon which will take you to the official site.

Wednesday 22nd January – 500 Words is Back!

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Chris Evans relaunched the BBC 500 Words Competition on Monday – you have more than a month to write a short 500 word story, and the prizes are fantastic. Have a look at the website (by clicking on the link of course) or look at the posters in the Library and the English Department to find out more.

Friday 17th January – Louise Rennison competition

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tamingofthetightsLouise Rennison’s site is always worth a visit – it’s very colourful and full of fabby bits and bobs. Even better, to celebrate the paperback edition of The Taming of the Tights, there’s a competition – you could win a day out in London (travel expenses included) for you and three friends, AND you get copies of the book as well!

Go to the site (click on the pic) to find out more.

Tuesday 17th December – Christmas Competitions

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spinebreakersSpinebreakers are running a competition called ‘Tis the season to be… reading!’ You could win a bundle of twelve books to read over the holidays, by answering one simple question, but the closing date is Thursday so you’ll have to hurry. Why not go to their site and have a look?fiercefiction

Or, you could try your luck with Fierce Fiction’s Twelve days of Fiercemas competition – click on their logo to go to their tumblr and enter.  Someone has to win, it might just be you!