find children’s writing competitions on wordbox4writers!
WORDBOX is a huge national resource listing Australian writing competitions, opportunities, literary events, workshops and reading activities
for school-aged Australians. Competition entries are by date, for organised types. YouWrite features authors on writing.
Readers, discover wordie activities on ReadMe!
WORDBOX launched 14 May 2006
YouWrite launched summer 2007 with advice from great Australian authors
the-storyspace blog launched summer 2008 / Slideshare ppt added October 2008
wordbox moved to wordpress September 2009
Who’s who in this choc-a-block non-salad blogroll?
These fabulous wordbox linkers support young people’s writing!:
Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre, Nette Hilton, Michelle Cooper,
Judith Ridge (Western Sydney Young People’s Literature Officer) at Westword,
Jenny Stubbs at Ipswich District Teacher Librarians Network on EQ’s The Learning Place!,
Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards, The Australian Government’s Culture and Recreation Portal, State Library of Queensland’s Summer Reading Club, writingWA, edna.edu.au, State Library of Tasmania’s Kids’ Pages, The Source: Chill, Australian Writers Marketplace Online, National Literacy and Numeracy Week, and many public and school library sites.
What writing comps are happening in your state/territory? Get them listed!
the wordbox is for / young writers to discover / new ideas with words ~
Nicole (Ohio)
Literary Competition Guidelines recommended by the Australian Society of Authors:
‘Entry fees are acceptable so long as they are in proportion to the prizes on offer. A $5 fee is appropriate where the prize is more than $1000. Entry fees of more than $20 are unacceptable.’
Advertisements should include presentation details, prize details and judges’ names, date results will be publicly announced, closing date, publication plans, fees to be paid for published entries and importantly – name, phone number and street address of organisers (be cautious if only a P.O. Box address is given).
Writers who access competition details through this resource site should gather as much information as possible and satisfy themselves that they are comfortable entering the competition. wordbox aims to list only those competitions listed by reputable organisations which have children’s literary interests at heart.
For ASA’s full guidelines for literary competitions, send a ssae to P.O. Box 1566, Strawberry Hills NSW 2012.Be alert for scam competitions and avoid them!
Check out these sites for information - Writing World – Literary Scams
(particularly points 5 & 6), Elite Skills, Warnings and cautions for writers.10 tips for winning writing contests, and other writers’ tips on YouWrite.
This is the UN Decade of Literacy!
