Journalism Writing Competition 2014-2015

By Ng Jia Wei 11 eta:

Hello.

Since Chee Kin's already covered the photography competition, I'm here to talk about the writing competition.

The Journalism Writing Competition 2014-2015 is open to all students, whether you're in year 7 or an IB student. Submissions should be made via the skisjournalism.blogspot website (a.k.a. this website) through a Google form that will allow you to upload your Word document. If anything goes wrong with that, blame Jia Quan from 11 eta, head of programming.

Deadline is the 8th of December 2014. For the particularly fastidious, it basically means we'll accept anything that arrives before midnight that day.

The topics for the competition are:
- Something related to Paramount Championships
- The Actor
- A State Of Trance
- Baby Steps

Any form of writing is accepted. Poetry, prose, even the script for a play! However, in the case of the script, the clarity needed in terms of stage directions and formatting is hard, so we suggest not to submit a script.

Rules are as follows:
- Submitting a piece under a fake name is perfectly fine if you want to be anonymous. Just give us a way to contact you in case of any problems (email preferred).
- Only one entry allowed per student. The head editor is very fussy, and if two submitted entries seem to hold very similar styles, she will be checking.
- No word limit. You can write a five-book saga if you want to, as long as it stays within the topic and DOES NOT RAMBLE. We cannot emphasize the rambling bit enough because that would be rambling.
- Upload a Microsoft Word document. The head editor will make an effort to get the file up and running if it's in another format, but she's not that saintly if you purposely upload weird things like Scrivener files.
- Use a font that's easy to read, and a suitable font size.
- You do not need to print your piece.
- The judges (English department teachers, the head editor and the next head editor) reserve the right to disqualify pieces that they deem inappropriate for the competition.
-As a note to the above rule, themes of violence and hints of more mature themes are acceptable, as long as they are not present in a gratuitous fashion for reasons that do not seem to develop the characters/storyline/content.

*Head editor: Jia Wei (Year 11)
*Next head editor: Katherine (Year 10)

If you have any questions, email Chee Kin at 17589@kdu-online.com 

Good luck, and have fun writing!