Creative writing contest for elementary and middle school students, ideal for 6-13 year-olds
Teach your students how to write a spooky story and turn them into confident, proud writers!
Captivate your students with the fun of writing their very own spooky stories. Scary Tales is a fantastic way to engage your students and get them writing with tension, suspense, and atmosphere. Inspire your students to create their own original mini sagas and become published writers!
Mini sagas (a story told in up to 100 words) can be funny or creepy, scary or odd, but must be your students' own work. If you’d like further graphic organizers they can be copied or downloaded. If you prefer to go paperless, check out the Online Writing Portalwhere your students type their work during your lesson!
Why Take Part? 🧟♂️ Engaging way to teach constrained writing 👾 Lesson plan and graphic organizer for easy integration into lessons 👹 Fun spooky theme to inspire your students (ideal for 6-13 year-olds) 👻 Your students could be published in a real book 🎃 Opportunity for both students and schools to win prizes 🦇 Complimentary copy of the book your students feature in (the more students you enter the more free books you'll receive!) 💀 Free to enter 🧛🏻♀️ Fang-tastic way to showcase your school's writing talent
There are lots of resources available to download to help your students get writing including examples, a lesson plan on how to use tensions, suspense and atmosphere, and a PowerPoint (or use the Google Slides version instead!).
We look forward to reading your students' work!
Closing Date: Friday Nov 1, 2024
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This is a wonderful program for students to express themselves in a fun way!
To make sure your entries are valid, please follow the rules listed below:
Closing Date: Friday Nov 1, 2024
Only one entry per student, there is no limit to the number of entries per school. Teachers, please submit your entries altogether where possible!
Mini sagas can be submitted on the entry form or a sheet of paper or typed (on a computer or using the Online Writing Portal or Word Doc entry form).
Each student's name, age, and school name should be included on their entry. (Entries can be submitted with first names only or initials if needed.)
Mini sagas have a 100-word limit. The title is not included in the word limit.
If a story starter/ending is used, it must be included in the 100-word limit.
US entrants only.
Students' mini sagas must be their own work! (Please note on the entry if there is anything we need to take into consideration when reading the work.)
Copyright remains with the author.
Free to enter.
If you are unsure on any rules or have any queries, please don't hesitate to Contact Us.
For Schools
The school that submits the best set of entries will win the Young Writers' Award of Excellence.
PLUS every participating school receives a free copy of the book their pupils feature in!
(Remember, you receive 1 free copy for every 30 entries you submit! E.g. 1-30 entries you receive 1 copy, 31-60 entries you receive 2 copies, etc. Every participating school will receive at least 1 copy of the book their students feature in.)
For Pupils
Our 3 favorite published writers will each win a fantastic creative writing goody bag!
PLUS
Every entrant receives a bookmark, and we award a certificate of merit for all young writers chosen for publication.
(School and student winners will be chosen from entries received Sept-Nov 2024. Goody bag image is an example, contents may differ.)
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Young Writers Elementary 77 Walnut Street Unit 11 Peabody MA 01960
Closing Date: Friday Nov 1, 2024
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