Writing Competition - What Matters? 2015
Want to have your say? Use your writing skills to state your opinion and perhaps win great prizes along the way!!NSW/ACT 2015 Competition Information
What Matters?is a writing competition that gives Year 5 – 12 students in NSW and the ACT a chance to say what matters to them in society today.
How to enter
Write a 400-600 word opinion piece on what matters to you and why. Entries must be typed on A4 paper. Strictly one entry per student. All entries must be accompanied by a signed entry form. Entry forms are available from your teacher or can be downloaded below.
All entrants will receive a certificate of participation.
STUDENT PRIZES
Prizes are awarded in 4 categories: Years 5/6, 7/8, 9/10 and 11/12.
➜ $350 for each category winner and $200 for each category
runner-up. Winners and runners-up will receive their prize at an
awards ceremony, following their participation in a Young Writers
Forum run by The Writing Workshop, in the second half of 2015
at the University of Western Sydney’s Parramatta campus.
Finalists’ entries will be published in print and online.
➜ The Years 5/6 and 7/8 category winners will each receive a
full-day creative writing workshop donated by The Writing
Workshop, conducted by award-winning author Bernard Cohen.
➜ The Year 9/10 category winner will be invited to spend a day at
ReachOut.com, meeting the team and receiving professional training.
They will also be offered the opportunity to be paid $200 to produce
a feature article for the ReachOut.com website.
➜ The Year 11/12 category winner will receive a 1 Year Membership
to the NSW Writers’ Centre and the opportunity to participate
in a one-day writing workshop* donated by the NSW Writers’ Centre.
*Conditions apply. Please see whitlam.org/whatmatters for more info.
OVERALL WINNER
➜ The overall competition winner, announced at the awards
ceremony, will receive an iPad. The overall winner will be
selected from finalists in NSW, ACT and What Matters? Tasmania.
For more information see http://www.whitlam.org/the_program/what_matters_writing_competition/what_matters_2015