Chris Evans has launched this year’s BBC 500 Words Competition – you have until the 25th February 2016 to write a short 500 word story. The prizes are fantastic: you could win Chris Evans’ height in books (he’s a tall man) and the final will be live from Shakespeare’s Globe on the 27th May. Have a look at the website (by clicking on this link of course) or ask the librarian for more details – and get writing!
On this morning’s Chris Evans Show, he relaunched the BBC 500 Words Competition – you have more than a month to write a short 500 word story, and the prizes are fantastic: you could win Chris Evans’ height in books, and he’s a tall man! Have a look at the website (by clicking on the link of course) or ask the librarian for more details.
The 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.
It’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.
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.
The first edition of the new school magazine is hopefully going to be published before Christmas. It covers a variety of issues across the school. It has lots of stuff for girls but stuff for boys too. They still don’t know how pupils are going to access it but are hoping to have one in every staff base. Miss Brown, who runs the club, decided to start a magazine because we don’t already have one and it will inform people about what is going on in the school.
Mr Scobie, a new English teacher at our school has started a Comic Book Club. He has done this because there is nothing in the school that already caters to this interest. Their end goal is to create a professional production quality comic book. So far there are 15 members and there are no limitations to numbers. This is a rare opportunity to create something in a fun and enjoyable environment. Mr Scobie’s favourite comic books are “anything DC – the Batman 52 series was good.”
The fantastic poster was created by Cameron in S2 (who has kindly given us permission to post it on the site).
Last Friday, several S4 students were taken to the Creative Writing Day conference courtesy of the English teachers. Alan Bisset, Alan Wilson, Keith Gray and many other authors held workshops that taught the students more writing techniques, like the Shark Theory: giving readers a fin (clue) instead of the whole shark (plot) to keep suspense. The students had a lot of fun and learned a lot from this experience.
Fancy your chances as a published author? Want to win a publishing contract with Random House? Why not enter the Sony Young Movellist of the Year competition. Click on the logo to find out more, and to see author and Movellas judge Malorie Blackman’s tips on how to write a winning entry.
Movellas is a story writing and story sharing community – even if you don’t want to enter the competition, you might like to have a look around the site – read some stories, maybe think about writing one!
The BBC Radio 2 500 words story writing competion is back! You could write a short story and win Chris Evans’ height in books… 1.88 metres apparently, which I am told is about six feet two inches (I haven’t checked my maths) and is a lot of books!
To find out how to enter, click on the picture and go to the official website or have a look at the posters up around the library.