Creative Writing Competition

Are you interested?... (Learning Lounge - 13/04/2015)

...If so, then read on and enter!!

Creative writing competition... Now open!

It's another year and another exciting competition for those taking part in the CILIP Carnegie and Greenaway shadowing scheme.

The 2015 competition gives students an insight into agreements between a publisher and an author, through the commissioning of a short article around the theme of 'What reading means to me' and by highlighting the protection copyright gives to writers, showing how your permission has to be sought for someone to be able to use your work.

Prizes 

1st prize - for the winner

• Tickets for you and a chaperone to the Carnegie and Greenaway Award Ceremony in London
• A Tablet for you 
• A selection of Carnegie and Greenaway shortlisted books 
• £500 worth of books for your school library
• Your work published in ALCS News and on the ALCS website 

2 x runners-up prizes

• A selection of Carnegie and Greenaway shortlisted books
• Your work published in ALCS News and on the ALCS website 

Word Count and Deadline

You will have a limit of 300 words and your deadline to enter your article into the competition is 25th May 2015.

Your audience (who you are writing for – your readers)

Your audience is the writer members of the Authors’ Licensing & Collecting

http://www.alcs.co.uk/whatreadingmeans