WRITE AWAY POVERTY CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION ANTI-POVERTY WEEK

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1 St Vincent de Paul Society NT In partnership with City of Darwin Libraries and NT Writers Centre WRITE AWAY POVERTY CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION ANTI-POVERTY WEEK

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3 CONTENTS WELCOME WRITE AWAY POVERTY COMPETITION INFORMATION TERMS AND CONDITIONS ENTRY INFORMATION TEMPLATE... 12

4 WELCOME The St Vincent de Paul Society NT, City of Darwin Libraries and the NT Writers Centre creative writing competition kit is designed to help your students unleash their creativity and develop a piece of fiction writing to raise awareness for Anti-Poverty Week. The kit contains everything you need to know about how to get started, including submission guidelines and a marking rubric so students know what judges will be looking for! For further information please contact the St Vincent de Paul Society NT Youth Coordinator. Phone: (08) youth@svdpnt.org.au PO Box 1468 Nightcliff NT 0814 CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION : ANTI-POVERTY WEEK 2016 PAGE 4

5 WRITE AWAY POVERTY POVERTY IS NOT AN ACCIDENT. LIKE SLAVERY AND APARTHEID IT IS MAN-MADE AND CAN BE REMOVED BY THE ACTIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS. - NELSON MANDELA The St Vincent de Paul Society NT, City of Darwin Libraries and the NT Writers Centre creative writing competition encourages students to use their passion for justice to write a story or poem of no more than 500 words prompted by the theme home. Students may interpret this theme in any way they like, as long as it is clear that their writing has been prompted by this theme and it is present in their writing in some way. A lot is possible with the power of creative expression. The competition provides students with an opportunity to think about those experiencing poverty and the global, national and local issues that create it. Competition winners will have their stories published on the St Vincent de Paul NT website as recognition and receive a $50 gift card. They will also have the opportunity to perform a reading of their entry at a Darwin library during Anti-Poverty Week. Both winners and runners-up will be presented with a certificate by a member of the judging panel at this event. CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION : ANTI-POVERTY WEEK 2016 PAGE 5

6 COMPETITION INFORMATION THE GUIDELINES The competition is open from Monday 22nd August and submissions will be accepted from this date. To be valid, entries must be received by Friday 7th October (by 5pm). The entry must be an original, unpublished work of no more than 500 words. Must be in a clear, size 12 typed font (Calibri, Arial or Times New Roman). Double-spacing is preferred. The entry must not be handwritten. No images or colour to be included. Any student at a Northern Territory school can enter. Only one entry per student. There will be one winner and one runner-up from both the primary and secondary level. The theme home should be a focus of the entry in some way, but the theme does not need to be overdone. Get creative and think outside the square! CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION : ANTI-POVERTY WEEK 2016 PAGE 6

7 MARKING RUBRIC When determining competition winners and runners-up, the judges will use the following marking rubric. To give yourself the best shot make sure your story or poem meets the following requirements: Criteria High Medium Low Not Shown Meets submission requirements (not more than 500 words, typed in clear, size 12 font). No images or colour. The theme of home is present in the entry Raises awareness of/ connects to issues of poverty Originality and sophistication of ideas Creative use of vocabulary and language Cohesion and flow of writing Correct spelling and use of grammar and punctuation CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION : ANTI-POVERTY WEEK 2016 PAGE 7

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9 HOW? Entries must be clearly labelled with the student s name, school name and year level. Submission is via or post. youth@svdpnt.org.au Mail: Youth Coordinator St Vincent de Paul Society NT PO Box 1468 Nightcliff NT 0814 FURTHER INFORMATION AND RESOURCES: CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION : ANTI-POVERTY WEEK 2016 PAGE 9

10 TERMS AND CONDITIONS AGREEMENT By submitting an entry in St Vincent de Paul Society NT s Creative Writing Competition, entrants agree to these terms and conditions. ELIGIBILITY Entry is open to Northern Territory primary and secondary school groups and/or students. HOW TO ENTER The entrant, or nominated school representative, must or mail entries with their School Name; Suburb; Student Name; and Student Year Level clearly labelled. Entrants are responsible for providing correct and honest information. Entrants are responsible for ensuring that their entries are received before the period for submission closes. St Vincent de Paul Society NT is not responsible for late, lost, or damaged entries, or for any failure of entries to arrive due to postal issues or issues. THE ENTRY The entry should be an original, unpublished poem or fiction story of no more than 500 words. It must be in a clear, size 12 typed font (Calibri, Arial or Times New Roman). Double-spacing is preferred. The entry must not be handwritten. No images or colour to be included. Any school student in the Northern Territory is eligible to enter. Only one entry per student. There will be one winner and one runnerup from both the primary and secondary level. The theme home should be a focus of the entry in some way. SELECTION OF WINNERS Judges will determine a shortlist of finalists, and then winners and runners up will be chosen from this list for both the primary and secondary school categories. All submissions will be judged according to their respective category. SHORTLISTING The shortlisting of finalists will be judged by a panel, which will decide the best 10 entries from both the primary and secondary school categories. They will do this by considering: If the entry meets submission guidelines (not more than 500 words, typed in a clear size 12 font, no images or colour). The theme of home is present in the entry. The entry raises awareness of/ connects to issues of poverty in some way. The originality and sophistication of ideas. Creative use of vocabulary and language. The cohesion and flow of writing. Correct spelling and use of grammar and punctuation. The panel s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. PANEL VOTING A judging panel will vote on the 10 shortlisted entries to select one winner and one runner-up from both the primary and secondary school categories. The outcome from the panel s vote will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. NO COST TO ENTER Entry into the Competition is free. PRIZE The prize for the final winning entrants (primary and secondary school) is publication of their poem or story on the St Vincent de Paul Society NT website, CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION : ANTI-POVERTY WEEK 2016 PAGE 10

11 for such period as determined by the Promoter, and use of the poem or story in the advocacy of social justice initiatives across the Northern Territory. A $50 book voucher for the winning entrants and the presentation of certificates to both winners and runners-up. (There are no other prizes for winning entries). Winners and runners-up will also have the opportunity to read their story aloud at the prize-giving ceremony. If, at any stage the St Vincent de Paul Society NT considers an entry that has been short listed or selected as the winning entry is ineligible under these Terms and Conditions, it may remove that entry from the shortlist, winner, or runner-up as applicable. NOTIFICATIONS OF WINNERS The final winning entries from each category will be announced on the St Vincent de Paul Society NT website, on social media, as well as by and phone, on a date determined by the Promotor. PUBLICATION AND PROMOTION Entrants who are short listed, or selected as the winner or runner-up, agree to participate in any reasonable publicity or promotion of St Vincent de Paul Society NT s event related to this competition requested by the Promoter (for example, students being photographed as the shortlisted, winning, or runner-up students and those photographs being published). LICENCE AND CONSENT In order to ensure that the St Vincent de Paul Society NT has sufficient rights to publish the entry, each entrant, in submitting an entry (and, in relation to entrants who are not 18 years of age when submitting the entry, a parent/guardian of the entrant, on the entrant s behalf): Acknowledges that the entrant understands, and agrees to, these Competition Terms and Conditions; Advises that the entry is the entrant s original work and that the entrant has not copied it from any other person s work; Grants the St Vincent de Paul Society NT a permanent, irrevocable, world-wide, nonexclusive and free licence to use, modify, reproduce, publish, communicate and distribute the entry for the Competition, or any other Society purpose; Consents to any of the following types of acts or omissions by the Society: (a) use of all or part of the entry in accordance with the licence granted above, with or without attribution of authorship to the entrant (but the Society will not falsely attribute authorship of the entry); (b) supplementing the entry with any other material; and (c) use of the entry in a different context to that originally envisaged; and Acknowledges that the entrant s name, age and school will be published in connection with the Competition, and consents to such publication. ENTRIES BECOME PROPERTY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY NT The physical entries (i.e. those sent in via post), become the property of the St Vincent de Paul Society NT. PRIVACY The Promoter will treat all personal information obtained through the competition in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Commonwealth). Entrants consent to the publication of their name, age and school on the St Vincent de Paul Society NT s website, in any media produced as a result of the Competition, and elsewhere. AMENDMENT/CANCELLATION The Promoter may amend these Terms and Conditions from time to time, and any amendments will be binding on all entrants. If, for any reason, this Competition is not able to be run as planned, the Promoter may cancel the Competition without liability to any entrant, or any other person. PROMOTER The Promoter of this Competition is the State Youth Facilitator, Youth Department, St Vincent de Paul Society NT, Nightcliff, CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION : ANTI-POVERTY WEEK 2016 PAGE 11

12 ENTRY INFORMATION FORM School information School name School address Contact person/teacher Phone Entry information Student(s) name Year level CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION : ANTI-POVERTY WEEK 2016 PAGE 12

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16 CONTACT DETAILS : Virginia Spicer-Harden Youth Coordinator St Vincent de Paul NT youth@svdpnt.org.au (08)