creative writing competition singapore 2021

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on." - Louis L'Amour

"don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." - anton chekhov, the english council  pte. ltd. (tec)  is proud to present its inaugural nationwide creative writing competition extended to all singaporean & pr students in singapore between the ages of 10 and 19 years old in 2020..

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Pick ONE of the following five essay topics and write an original story between 500 and 800 words in length:

• The Red Box
• Start and end  your original story with the following sentence: ‘I never liked the colour purple.’
• Write an original story based on: You are in the middle of a secluded desert. You see a mirror in the distance and as you gravitate towards it, you reach out and touch it.
• Schadenfreude

Submit your original story to [email protected] by 5th December 2020  Saturday, 19th December 2020, 6.00pm . 

1st Prize (Overall Winner): Apple iPad

2nd Place Winner (Age Group – 10 to 14 Years Old): $400 TEC Gift Card

2nd Place Winner (Age Group – 15 to 19 Years Old): $400 TEC Gift Card

Plus 27 Consolation Prizes

Submission Date:

5th December 19th December 2020, 6.00pm

Notification of Shortlisted Candidates by:

12th December 2020 9th – 12th January 2021

Workshop Date & Time:

Saturday, 19th December  

Saturday, 16th January 2021 

2.00pm to 6.00pm

Broadcast of Top 3 Winners:

December 2020 January 2021

*Dates and terms have been amended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Submissions for this event are closed. A big ‘thank you’ to all contestants for their participation and support.

We look forward to reading each and every creative masterpiece. Stay tuned by liking or following us on our Facebook Page .

Write on & let the magic happen!

COMPETITION CRITERIA

This competition is strictly open to all Singaporean and PR students only, who are aged between 10 and 19 years old in 2020. Each contestant may submit only ONE entry. ALL entries MUST be original and written by the contestant in English. The entries must not have been published anywhere else at the time of submission.

All participants MUST Like and Share any one of The English Council’s (TEC) Nationwide Creative Writing Competition 2020 posts on TEC’s Facebook Page (See link: https://www.facebook.com/theenglishcouncil/ ) on their Facebook Wall, Instagram or any social media platform in the form of a post. The audience setting of the latter post on the contestant’s social media profile MUST be set to public (where applicable) and remain actively published until the closing date of this competition. All submissions MUST include a screen grab(s) of the latter, along with TEC’s Entry Form (See below).

Entries that do not meet the minimum word count of 500 words or those that exceed the word count of 800 words will be immediately disqualified. Personal details of the contestant written on the first page will not contribute to the final word count.  

The submission deadline is 19th December 2020 at 6.00pm . Late submissions will not be entertained.

This is a FREE event and there is no participation fee of any kind required.

Entries must be submitted via email to [email protected] and must use TEC’s Word Document template (CLICK HERE) . The first page of this Word Document MUST be completed and endorsed with the contestant’s signature before submission. The contestant’s essay should start only from page two of the Word Document and should be typed in Arial font-size 12, double-spaced and in black only. Before submission, the Word Document needs to be renamed by changing ‘FULL NAME’ to the contestant’s full name.

SELECTION OF WINNERS

30 shortlisted contestants will be selected by the faculty of The English Council Pte. Ltd. and they will be notified by January 2021. The 30 selected contestants will be invited to attend a compulsory and complimentary Creative Writing Clinic, where they will undergo a second level of selection process during which they will be further assessed. This will be conducted on Saturday, 16th January 2021 from 2.00pm to 6.00pm . (Shortlisted contestants will be notified of the venue via text message or email closer to the date). Of the 30 shortlisted contestants, 3 of them will be announced as the top winners based on their performance during the Creative Writing Clinic. The remaining 27 contestants will be awarded with a consolation prize. The results of the top 3 winners of The English Council’s Nationwide Creative Writing Competition 2020 will be published on The English Council’s website or social media page by January 2021. 

SAFETY & PRECAUTIONS

In view of the global spread of COVID-19, every effort will be taken during the Creative Writing Clinic to ensure the safety of all our participants through prior mandatory travel declarations of all parties directly involved in the event and temperature checks of all parties on the actual day before the commencement of the event.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

By submitting the essay to the competition, the contestant grants The English Council Pte. Ltd. and its affiliates the non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide, royalty-free license (with the right to sub-license) to keep and reproduce, edit, display, transmit, modify, publish and otherwise make use of the submitted entries in any and all media for any purpose consistent with the corporate objectives of The English Council Pte. Ltd., including educational, archival and research purposes, and for publicising The English Council Pte. Ltd. or any of its programmes, including derivative works for such purposes. Where practical, the essay will be attributed to the student who submitted it.

In addition, by submitting the essay or any other content to the Creative Writing Competition, the contestant declares that the submitted materials do not infringe on any copyright or other rights of any third party, and that the contestant has the right to grant any and all rights and licenses to The English Council Pte. Ltd. 

The English Council Pte. Ltd. reserves the right to change any of the above terms and conditions at any time without prior notice.

For further queries, please contact us at [email protected]

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金笔奖是新加坡最高荣誉的创意写作比赛，接受四种官方语文参赛作品：英文、华文、马来文与淡米尔文。这项由国家艺术理事会于1993年首办的比赛，是发掘写作新人的重要平台。比赛鼓励写作人以文学文字表述，凡展现文字风采，能留下文学价值的作品，都是金笔奖极力推荐表扬的。比赛涵盖下列三组别，包括今年特别增设的短篇小说译作组别（英文）：

2023年金笔奖由 艺苑公司 主办， 新加坡书籍理事会 联办，并获 国家艺术理事会 的支持。

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தங்க முனை விருது, ஆங்கிலம், சீனம், மலாய், தமிழ் ஆகிய சிங்கப்பூரின் நான்கு அதிகாரப்பூர்வ மொழிகளில் நடத்தப்படும் முதன்மை படைப்பெழுத்துப் போட்டி. 1993-ஆம் ஆண்டு தேசிய கலை மன்றத்தால் நிறுவப்பட்ட இப்போட்டி, சிங்கப்பூரில் இலக்கிய தரம் வாய்ந்த புது எழுத்தாளர்களைக் கண்டறிந்து ஊக்குவிக்கும் முக்கிய தளமாக அமைகிறது. இப்போட்டியில் மூன்று இலக்கிய வகைமைப் பிரிவுகள் உள்ளன:

தங்க முனை விருது 2023 ஆர்ட்ஸ் ஹவுஸ் லிமிட்டெட் நிறுவனத்தின் ஏற்பாட்டில், சிங்கப்பூர் புத்தக மன்றத்துடன் இணைந்து தேசிய கலை மன்றத்தின் ஆதரவில் நடத்தப்படுகிறது.

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金笔奖2023诗歌组得奖者, anugerah pena emas 2023 – pemenang kategori puisi, 2023 தங்க முனை விருது – கவிதைப் பிரிவு வெற்றியாளர்கள், 2023 golden point award – short story winners, 金笔奖2023短篇小说组得奖者, anugerah pena emas 2023 – pemenang kategori cerpen, 2023 தங்க முனை விருது – சிறுகதைப் பிரிவு வெற்றியாளர்கள், 2023 golden point award – translation: short story (english) winners, 金笔奖2023短篇小说译作组（英文）得奖者, anugerah pena emas 2023 – pemenang kategori puisi (bahasa inggeris), 2023 தங்க முனை விருது –மொழிபெயர்ப்பு: சிறுகதை (ஆங்கிலம்) பிரிவு வெற்றியாளர்கள்.

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• SOTA Primary 6 Creative Writing Competition 2021
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The SOTA Primary 6 Creative Writing Competition is back for its 5th edition! SOTA invites all budding writers who will be in Primary 6 in 2021 to showcase their talents in this nation-wide competition.

Stand a chance to attend a free short story writing workshop, and win up to $500 worth of vouchers!

Find out how to take part and submit your entries online here.

Submissions close on 22 January 2021, at 5pm.

(Artwork by SOTA Visual Arts Student Hirari Haniuda)

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Primary Creative Writing Competition - The Future

Our  primary students explored the topic of the future in our first primary creative writing competition. here are the winning entries along with their teacher's comments. , winning entry by gregory, primary 3.

‘Hoot! Hoot!  The hooting of the owls broke the eerie silence of the night.  A snail sitting on a green lily pad in the calm blue pond in the deep dark woods kept gazing at the bright glittering stars.  He wondered to himself, “Those stars are hanging safely in the sky.  Hey!  What if, in the future, all snails can evacuate and live in the embrace of the stars, safe from our mortal enemy, the cruel owl.  Just yesterday, my poor Aunt met her tragic end, in the clutches of the owl.  Oh, how I hate the owl!”

Just then, a brilliantly silly idea flashed into its puny brain! “In the future, what if the snails in the stars come and pick me up?  What will they be travelling in?”

At that moment, the silly mollusc saw two bright yellow headlamps and a pointed entrance.  As snails aren’t known for their intelligence, the snail thought, “Wow! My future just came two-thousand years earlier!”  The closer the vessel came, the wider the entrance got.  The snail quickly crawled towards the vessel, shouting, “Safe stars, here I come!”  It boarded the vessel…and met its future.

“Hoot!  Hoot!”  The satisfying hooting of an owl broke the eerie silence of the night.  

Teacher's Comments

I love how Gregory Ng has been able to create such a memorable character in his story of a snail dreaming of salvation from this world.  I love this snail!  He whimsically imagines a future safe from his arch nemesis, the owl, in comical musings that are cut abruptly with interjections.

“He wondered to himself, ‘Those stars are hanging safely in the sky.  Hey!  What if, in the future, all snails can evacuate and live in the embrace of the stars, safe from our mortal enemy, the cruel owl.’”

The way he poetically delivers his thoughts (“hanging in the sky” / “embrace of the stars”) portrays a thoughtful and sensitive snail with his head always in the sky.

But he is, at heart, quite a stupid snail too.  The narrator tells us “a brilliantly silly idea flashed into its puny brain!”  This serves as a wonderfully funny line but is also a great lead up to the proof of his stupidity in the story. Seeing “two bright yellow headlamps” coming towards him, he gloriously revels in his salvation, thinking his “future” has come early.  He fails to be cautious, and this complete lack of awareness of the real world is his undoing, as we are left pondering if he actually did meet his destiny.

Yes, you may argue that it is unclear as to what future he met.  Was it actually a snail spaceship to save him?  Was it a car zooming towards him?  Or was it an owl swooping down to eat him?  The “pointed entrance” and the cyclical ending, changed slightly with the owl giving a “satisfying” hoots, points more to him meeting his demise by owl.

However that is the story’s success.  It is whacky, zany, and arcane.  It has a powerful grasp of characterisation and boasts great creativity in imagining a future through a snail’s eyes.

I can’t get the image of the snail out of my head.  Its hopeful and enlightened face.  Its little snail arms stretched out in rhapsody.  Its tiny heart bursting with elation.  All just before he meets its future.  Now, that’s a great way to go!

Runner-up entry - A Modern World by Jovin, Primary 5

It’s the year 2050, A.K.A. the future. It’s not really the future, but my parents told me the people in the past call this year that (the future).  So I just stick to it.

You would probably think of megacities, driverless cars and… but there’s actually more to it!  Well I won’t be listing down all of the new modern works because you would think it’s boring and probably fall asleep while you are reading this.  So I’ll just give an overview of them in my daily life.

\As usual I walked out of school and waited for my parents to pick me up.  You might feel like it’s boring as this is what most of our parents do, but trust me!  You are about to reach the exciting bit now!

“Hey Dad…” I said as I sat down and switched on my new digital videogame.  You are probably wondering what I meant by a digital videogame.  It’s kinda like this thin transparent sheet of glass floating in mid-air showing a videogame that you can play, except that you can touch through it.

Anyways, I reached home after a few minutes or so as my father and I walked through out glass door, my robot dog “Oreo” greeted us.  Yes, I said “walked through out glass door”, not literally.  My parents installed this door system where it needs your thumb print in order for you to sort of walk through the door.

Oh yes! I can’t forget to mention about my robot dog “Oreo”.  On my seventh birthday my Aunt had bought me it.  Since “Oreo” is just a robot I don’t have to spend my allowance on dog food and all the necessities, and the best thing is that you do not have to change the batteries!

“Lunch is ready!”  Mom said as she placed plates of food on a tray.

The tray soon levitated and flew in the direction of the dining table, cool right? It’s like an invisible waitress serving you your food!

Now this is what I call a modern world!

This short tale of a day in the life of a girl in the future is very conversational and relaxed in tone as it rejects describing the world of the future through the more common wider scope of the city and society.

“You would probably think of megacities, driverless cars and… but there’s actually more to it!”

Instead it opts for a more limited scope; a scaled down personal vision of the girls future.  Her new video game, robot dog and newly installed glass doors.  It’s an honest reflection that what is more important in a girl’s life isn’t how the world she lives in works, but how her dinner plate floats towards her “like an invisible waitress serving your own food!”

Jovin ties all these observations together with a tongue-in-cheek style as she self-referentially tells you how she is going to deliver her story, keeping the reader comically in mind at all times.

“… and waited for my parents to pick me up.  You might feel like it’s boring as this is what most of our parents do.  But trust me!  You are about to reach the exciting bit now!”

Nicely done if you ask me, making this anything but a boring story.  Her enthusiasm of the things around her makes up for her choice not to have a narrative.

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Write for Kindness (WFK) is a national creative writing competition organised by the Singapore Kindness Movement, with the Singapore Book Council as programme partner. WFK is a platform for students to promote kindness to young children by creating age-appropriate and culturally relevant children’s stories through short stories, poetry, songs and illustrations.

Participating teams are required to attend a story-writing, poetry-writing, song composition, and/or illustration workshop by Singapore’s leading authors and illustrators. The workshop aims to facilitate the participants’ understanding of their target audience (pre-schoolers for short stories and primary school students for poems) and provide the fundamental skills in writing and illustrating for a younger audience.

Students will learn the value of kindness through stories and poems and the importance of teamwork, as well as the importance of using stories and poems to positively impact young children in their character development. They will also see stories and poetry as creative means of expressing cultural values.

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The Creative Writing Competition is aimed at inspiring primary school students to write as well as empowering them to express their creative thoughts and opinions through poetry or as an essay. The Poetry Writing category is open to Primary 5 & Primary 6 students.

The closing date for submissions is  Sunday, 31 March 2024 . The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony during the Asia Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) in May 2024.

The theme for this year’s competition is  CURIOSITY .

Please refer to the format requirements for the submissions:

Poetry writing: Written in English. Maximum of 20 lines, excluding the title. Font must be Arial or Times New Roman, 12pt, black, and double spaced.

The author’s name should be included in the document or file name. No illustrations should be included as part of the entry. Submit as either a Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or PDF file.

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We are pleased to announce the results of the 6 th national english writing competition (new-c), where more than 40 primary schools in singapore nominated more than 150 of their best students to represent them., this year’s competition is testimony to the rivers of creativity running through our budding writers, with the entries covering a wide span of genres from reimagined fairy tales to heart-warming family feuds drawn from the daily life of sibling rivalry. as organisers of a competition to demonstrate that good writing does not come from memorised idioms, we find this shift away from stock plots and common clichés extremely encouraging.    , we are also heartened by the visible leap in the use of increasingly sophisticated storytelling techniques in many of the entries. they have done especially well in terms of structuring their stories, through well-planned story mountains, foreshadowing and show-not-tell techniques, and we applaud our teachers for their success in nurturing our next generation of writers., here, let us celebrate the effort and accomplishment of our budding writers who continue to keep the torch for singapore literature burning bright:, 2023 category 1 (primary 3 & 4) winners, chong yi xian kerrie, gongshang primary school, emily boy, townsville primary school, 3 rd prize (tied), kee ann, haig girls’ school, james liew jun wei, rosyth school, keona kwok zi qing, rosyth school, alyssa goh jing rou, jiemin primary school, john wu weikai, st. joseph’s institution junior, isabelle law, telok kurau primary school, 2023 category 2 (primary 5 & 6) winners, gwee je teng, shuqun primary school, chin kaiyi kayla, kuo chuan presbyterian primary school, wu yixuan, nan hua primary school, henry park primary school, liu yichen, ngee ann primary school, liesl tan zhu ning, unity primary school, lim jia di mele, woodgrove primary school, xing wenxin cherie, yangzheng primary school, chia zi xuan.

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WINNERS OF THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH ESSAY COMPETITION 2021

In 2021 we were thrilled to announce that a record-breaking 25,648 children entered The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2021 from every Commonwealth region. The 2021 winners and runners-up are:

Senior Winner: Kayla Bosire aged 16 from Nairobi, Kenya

Kayla Bosire is an 11th grade student at Maxwell Adventist Academy in Kenya, and she loves writing, a passion she has pursued for a good portion of her 16 years of life. Her love for words was developed while she was a student at Cavina School a prep school in Nairobi Kenya, where she developed a love for creative writing, Shakespeare and theatre. Kayla’s love for the arts is nurtured at her current high school; where she plays three instruments (piano, violin and flute) and enjoys performing in her schools’ orchestra and as a member of the Wind Ensemble.

She holds positions of leadership and responsibility as a tutors assistant math grader, Class Secretary and as a member of the school magazine team (The Maxwell Mirror). Her dream is to pursue a career that allows her to advance justice and fairness in the world for both humans and animals. She is yet to decide whether she is a cat or dog person. Kayla chose to write about it being 30 years since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and what the world looks like….through the eyes of the COVID-19 virus.

Senior Runner-Up:

Aditi Nair Aged 15 from New Delhi, India

Aditi S Nair is an 11th grade student of Sanskriti School in New Delhi. She has always had a passion for writing, and ever since she was young, has enjoyed writing stories and poems. 

Apart from writing, her hobbies include reading, dancing and gardening. A few of her favourite authors are Khaled Hosseini, Celeste Ng, Ruskin Bond and Madeline Miller.   

Junior Winner: Ethan Charles Mufuma  Aged 13 from Mukono, Uganda

Ethan is 13 years old and is the third borne in a family of four children. He is proud to say that he is 'still the only boy child in this family'. His father is Mr. Wilson Mufuma and his mother is Mrs. Sarah Beatrice Wamakoto. His ancestral village is Bumayoka found in Bududa District in Eastern Uganda.  

He started his early education (nursery) at three years at Joy Nursery and Primary School, located near Makerere University. In 2014 when he was six years old, he joined Namilyango Junior Boys School for his primary education. He was there for the entire primary education until 2020 when he did his Primary Leaving Exams (P. L. E) and scored aggregate (5). 

Ethan started creative writing at the age of ten through the school writing club. Here all learners compete to publish in the school publications. (a termly newspaper and an annual magazine. Ethan mainly writes poetry where as he feel it's easier to have both the message and art flow better. His teacher tells them to choose what one feels free with (prose or poetry). 

Ethan first participated in The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Writing Competition in 2020. He was greatly inspired by one writing club member (Michael Victor Mugerwa) who had won a Silver Award in 2019. This was the first Award for their school and he really felt proud. 

In 2021, Ethan is the the happiest to add this record (winner) of the Junior category to his biography.

Junior Runner-Up: Raisa Gulati Aged 14 from Amritsar, India

Raisa is an all rounder, performing well both academically and in her co-curricular activities. She is very passionate about sports. From a very young age she has played at the National level for chess and equestrian. In 2019 she was declared Junior State Champion of Lawn Tennis in Rajasthan and she was also awarded with the award for being the most promising Equestrian rider in her school. However, the pandemic brought a halt to all her outdoor activities.

She is also adept in playing tabla and drums. During her free time she likes to sketch and she is also a recipient of the Piccaso award for her sketch besides winning various drawing competitions.

Life for her is full of things to learn and she enjoys navigating the uncharted terrain.

• RULES AND REGULATIONS
• AWARDS AND PRIZES
• IMPORTANT DATES TO NOTE
• TOP 50 FINALISTS
• Top 10 Finalists
• EXHIBITION INFORMATION

SOTA Primary 6 Creative Writing Competition 2024

Awards and prizes.

50 finalists will be invited to a short story writing workshop on 23 March 2024 and will receive the following prizes:

• Top 10 finalists: $100 book voucher
• Next 40 finalists: $20 book voucher

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