For over 30 years, the West Virginia Young Writers Contest has celebrated student writing in the state. The YWC grows out of a deep commitment to writing in all subjects, and to the publishing, displaying, and celebrating of student writing.
Contest GuidelinesTeachers and administrators in each county will encourage students to submit writing for judging, first at the school, and then the county level. Submissions may be on any topic and in any prose genre: fiction, nonfiction, narrative, memoir, or essay. Poetry is not eligible for submission and submissions must be free of graphics. Entries should be the sole creation of the student and composed during the current school year. The entry should be drafted in a manner which best supports the use of process writing and the concept of the writer’s workshop. Home-schooled students and students in private schools may participate, subject to the guidelines and supervision by the county in which they reside. YWC County Coordinators are encouraged to share contest information with private schools and home school associations. Winning entries from private schools and from home-schooled students must be judged at the county level. Leaders from the Central West Virginia Writing Project (CWVWP) at Marshall University will judge entries on the following criteria: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions. Entries submitted for state competition at categories below must not exceed word length limits: Grade 1-2 300 words Grade 3-4 500 words Grade 5-6 700 words Grade 7-8 700 words Grade 9-10 1,000 words Grade 11-12 1,200 words Schools need to submit entries to County Coordinators by February 4, 2019. For more information, contact Monroe County coordinator, Christine Dunlap at [email protected] or visit https://www.marshall.edu/cwvwp/young-writers/contest/. Comments are closed.
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