BORONIA WEATHER

Young Writers

Young Writers Initiative

Share Your Voice with BBCN!

Boronia and The Basin Community News (BBCN) is excited to announce their support of an initiative to encourage young writers to share their articles. We invite current students living and or learning in Boronia and The Basin, to submit original unpublished pieces of writing to the initiative. BBCN will publish some of the submitted articles; the writers of the published articles will each receive a gift voucher.

A grand award will be presented in December for the primary and the high school article judged to be the best for the year. There is a total annual award value of $400 for both primary school and high school articles, and $400 will be granted to the schools attended by the grand award winners. Those schools will hold a perpetual trophy for the duration that one of their students is the current grand award titleholder. The schools must be within the Boronia or The Basin postcodes.

Guidelines

Inspiring Young Writers in the BBCN Community

Guidelines for writing, and details of the assessment criteria have been shared with schools within the BBCN circulation area and are summarised on this page. There is no prescribed format or theme, other than that submissions must be no more than 400 words and be an original piece authored by the submitting writer. Writers must be studying at a primary or high school. They must either live in the BBCN area (Boronia and The Basin), or attend a school in this area. Submissions can be fiction or non-fiction, creative, analytical or poetry. The aim of the initiative is to provide incentive for young people to write and share their works.

Submission Requirements

Submissions are invited from all students up to and including Year 12, living or enrolled in the BBCN circulation area (Boronia and The Basin).

Thank you for your contributions.

We hope that this encourages you to continue your writing and that the experience of publishing your work provides you with confidence to seek other writing opportunities throughout your life.

The KidsZone Team at BBCN

Click here to read current winners and highly commended.