Story Challenge

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How good are you at creative writing?
You’ll be given a topic and a week to write your own short story.

Start Date:	10th Feb 2010
Closing Date:	10pm, 17th Feb 2010 - Now closed This challenge has now closed. Read the stories submitted for this challenge: > Year 0-6 Entries > Year 7-8 Entries > Year 9-13 Entries
The Challenge:	Write a story on the topic: PLANET Students had one week to write a story of up to 300 words (Junior and Intermediate - Years 0-8) or 500 words (Senior Years 9-13) on the topic.
Prizes will be awarded to:	The best three entries in each stream (junior, intermediate, senior).
The judges will be looking for:	Relevance to topic, originality, language skills, characterisation and story construction.

The story topic for you to write about is PLANET.

Win a telescope for your school. Nine telescopes to be won!

Telescopes kindly donated by HP.

Judging of the stories commences shortly and winners will be announced at the Planet2010 show in Auckland on 13^th March.
Come along to Planet 2010 at the Skycity Convention Centre on Saturday 13^th March. Entry is free, there’s interactive exhibitions, music, cool technology and more!
Read the stories submitted – Years 0-6, Years 7-8 and Years 9-13.

Enter as many times as you like.
Stories should be no more than 300 words (Year 0-8) or 500 words (Year 9-13). Any stories that are longer than this may be disqualified.
No entries will be accepted after the closing date.
The entrants must be:

Any student found to be participating in an incorrect age category will be disqualified.
The entrant must be the original author of the work entered as described in the Copyright Act 1994.
The completed registration form confirms the entrant’s consent to these Conditions.
Entries submitted without a signed Parental or Guardian consent form will not be accepted.
The TIG will have the right to print the name and story of any entrant in publicity in respect of the competition and all matter incidental thereto.
The TIG will have the right to interpret these conditions and to determine all issues arising out of this contest. Any such interpretations and determinations shall be final.
The judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Latest Entries

The propellers whirled round and round
The propellers whirled round and round, the craft gave a startling jolt and they were off! The boys looked back at their ruined planet, Earth, and grinned. Their space craft, which they had invented and taken two long years to build, actually worked!
Charlotte (Year 5)
Newbury School
A World a Fire
Flames licked the orange sky; the smoky clouds hung low. Screams echoed, a mother calling for her child, tiny hands reaching, cries unheard over the chaos, commanding men shouting until dark. Cities burning. The world, burning.
Hannah (Year 10)
Waimea College
A Cat at and Two Dog’s Adventure to MARS - by Morgan P
One day a cat and 2 dogs went for an adventure to Mars In a rocket ship...
Trentham School - Year 2 (Year 2)
Trentham School