Writing Competition: Write On

Get your pencils and imagination flowing with the 2017 WriteOn Competition. 
Students will compose an imaginative text up to 500 words in length in response to the photograph.

The following assessment criteria will be used by the judges when assessing entries: 

• engaging the audience in a way that is creative, interpretive, critical and powerful
• maintaining a consistent structure appropriate for the type of text selected
• using a range of stylistic devices appropriate for the stage of the writer and the intended audience
• using a variety of language, vocabulary and punctuation forms throughout the piece
• considering the purpose, audience and context
• evidence of a process of planning, investigating, adapting, editing and revising.

Imaginative pieces may include:

• narratives
• letters
• poems
• scripts for radio, screen and stage 
• interviews
• journal entries.