The Commonwealth Short Story Writing Competition 2006 is up! The deadline is mid-May. I do have some skeletons of a short story coming up, ideas which I thought of recently, but have never been materialised. If I am able to formulate a good enough story, perhaps I will take part, but then the few short stories I have written were not that good in the first place.
I first knew about this competition way back in secondary school. I had a British contract teacher as my English Language and Literature teacher. He happened to be the Head of Department for English. In order to let us unlease our creativity and improve our essay writing, he introduced a few writing competitions in his native country, the school-wide project being the Commonwealth Short Story Writing Competition.
Ten stories would be chosen from each class, but only fifteen per level would be entered into the competition. My story was one of those chosen from the class, but when pitted against the whole school, mine was not selected. :-(
A couple of years later, I tried entering again through my school, but again, it was not selected for entry. However, my teacher took the short story I submitted and entered it into the Singapore Press Holdings Short Story Writing Competition for Students. I felt flattered and proud, but I did not win anything.
So now I am trying means and ways to improve my writing. Hopefully I can see one of my articles in print for once! Afterall, that is the dream of almost every amateur writer!
I first knew about this competition way back in secondary school. I had a British contract teacher as my English Language and Literature teacher. He happened to be the Head of Department for English. In order to let us unlease our creativity and improve our essay writing, he introduced a few writing competitions in his native country, the school-wide project being the Commonwealth Short Story Writing Competition.
Ten stories would be chosen from each class, but only fifteen per level would be entered into the competition. My story was one of those chosen from the class, but when pitted against the whole school, mine was not selected. :-(
A couple of years later, I tried entering again through my school, but again, it was not selected for entry. However, my teacher took the short story I submitted and entered it into the Singapore Press Holdings Short Story Writing Competition for Students. I felt flattered and proud, but I did not win anything.
So now I am trying means and ways to improve my writing. Hopefully I can see one of my articles in print for once! Afterall, that is the dream of almost every amateur writer!
2 comments:
These competitions are pretty incredible. It is quite competitive.
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The competition is a great way to shine light on efforts of people.
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