Young Writer

About the Rotary GB&I Young Writer Competition 2022-2023


Creative writing is a talent to be celebrated and to be able to write is a special gift. In Great Britain and Ireland there are young people who have, or have the ability to develop this talent, and we wish to promote writing through the Rotary Young Writer competition.  

Starting with club level competitions, winners progress to district events and ultimately, a national final with the winning work subsequently published in Rotary magazines and on this website.  The quality of work submitted in previous years has been outstanding. 


Young Writer 2022-23

Closing date for entries 24th February 2023.

Theme for the year Peace

This three stage national competition aims to encourage development of writing skills. If offers young people the chance to;

  • Practice their writing skills
  • Write with imagination and creativity

The competition is open to students in full time education in three age groups; 

  • Junior                     7 – 10 years     (by the 31 August each year)
  • Intermediate         11 – 13 years     (by the 31 August each year)
  • Senior                  14 – 17 years      (by the 31 August each year)

An amanuensis can be used for entrants with motor control difficulties to record their work to paper.

All entries must be through a sponsoring Rotary Club

The winning District entry for each age group will be entered into the RIBI final.

An entry may be a piece produced in class, a piece of work done for SATS or Coursework, a piece written as part of badge work in a youth organisation or a piece written for the competition by an individual.

 

The task:

 To produce a written or  typewritten story or poem titled:

Peace

The written entry could be fiction or non-fiction, prose, or a poem, as long as the piece relates to the theme.

  • Up to maximum of 550 hundred words for prose entries.
  • Up to a maximum of 40 lines for poetry entries.
  • No pictures/drawings to be part of the entry.
  • All entries to be legible. Can be written or typed

Questions have been asked about spelling and although this is not an issue the only advice to be given is that judges of this competition have made comment upon spelling in the past.

Each Rotary Club may submit one entry for each age group.

Judging is based only on

  • imagination relative to the subject,
  • ability to engage interest, and
  • an ability to be consistent in the power of argument.

For entrants with motor control difficulties, an amanuensis may be used to record the entrant’s work to paper

Club round of Competition

Rotary Clubs will arrange their own competitions during January, February and March, so to enter you need to get in touch with your local Rotary club and check the date for entries, or in case of difficulty the District 1070 organiser Richard Warr.

The Rotary club will run a local competition. The closing date for entries is ???????. Winning entries from the club round for each age group  should be sent to the District Competition coordinator to arrive by the deadline of ???????. Please note that all entries should be submitted electronically.( see details in the information pack)

All  entrants will receive a participant certificate  with  appropriate prizes to the winners.

For more information about the competition the rules and entry/parental consent forms forms, please read the Competition Information Pack

A completed entry form must accompany each entry to the competition. Download the entry form here.

A POSTER is available for display in appropriate places.

If your club has run a competition Rotary GB&I have prepared the outline of a document you can amend with your Club's details and send to your local paper. To download this template click here

For a view of this years winners see the column on the right.


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