The Fourth Annual Albany Children’s Book Festival is sponsoring a creative writing contest for students in Grades 3 through 12. Our goal is to promote writing skills and the creative writing process. The contest is free and open to all eligible students.
Winner - IPod Nano & $50 CAP COM Visa Gift Card
Honorable Mention - $50 CAP COM Visa Gift Card
Eligibility:
*Any student in Grades 3 through 12.
*Entries must be postmarked by March 30, 2012.
*Eligibility requirements must be met for consideration.
Submissions: A Wicked Good Lesson Learned
We’ve all had experiences that have gone differently than planned. Yet, we sometimes learn a big lesson from them. Whether it’s a funny, embarrassing, gratifying or sad experience, it becomes an unforgettable memory etched deeply within our brains.
Write a powerful, well-constructed piece of no more than one page about a lesson you learned from a personal experience that didn’t go as planned, or create a fictional character who learns a lesson from plans that go wrong. What happened, who was involved, how did your characters feel as it was happening, and what lesson was learned from it?
Eligibility Requirements:
*The story must be an original, unpublished story, the sole creation of the student.
*Collaborative works are not eligible.
*Text must be typed in double-spaced, size 12 font.
*The story must have a title.
*A cover page with entrant’s name, grade, school, school address and teacher’s name must
be stapled to the story. Do NOT write this information on the story.
*Only one entry per student is permitted.
*Story should be proofread for spelling and grammatical errors, and in final copy format.
*Entries must be postmarked by March 30, 2012.
Judging:
*Students will be judged in one of five categories:
Grades 3 and 4 Grades 7 and 8
Grades 5 and 6 Grades 9 and 10
Grades 11 and 12
*Judging will be based on style, content, originality, care of execution, and clarity of ideas.
*Entries will be assigned a number for judging anonymity.
*Decisions of the judges are final.
Wicked Good Prizes:
Grades Three through Four
