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Library week comps

Library Week is coming up, and they are running a graphic novel competition. There are two age groupings! One for teens, and one for adults. You only need to add four frames to the continuing story to enter, and it begins on Monday, the 26th (and finishes on the 20th of August, during Library Week).

There are other competitions you can enter as well.

Re-Draft 2010

Re-Draft, an annual competition for teenage writers is on again. Your work could be selected for publication by judges Tessa Duder and James Norcliffe. Check in your school library for last year’s copy of the Re-Draft book ‘Fishing for Birds’ and you’ll find the entry form in the back. Good luck!

Comment And Win!

winWe have some sport themed prizes to give away; All Whites posters courtesy of New Zealand Football and Rip Curl Pro Search surfing DVDs courtesy of Kiwi Surf. If they sound like your cup of tea, be one of the first two people to comment on this post and they’re yours. Easy.

O.S.T. Closes Soon!

That’s right, there are only a few more days left for you to enter the O.S.T. Competition, for it closes on the 31st of May. Remember you can enter either by commenting on this blog, or by filling out an entry form in any of our branch libraries. Thank you to everyone who has already entered, we’ve enjoyed reading your playlists!

O.S.T. Competition: Part Two

Hey, remember the O.S.T. Competition? Oh good. You will of course recall that part one involved you re-imagining any YA book as a movie, then compiling it’s soundtrack. What an easy way to win prizes you probably thought. Well, part two is now open and it’s more involved, but you’ll win better prizes.

Now you must design the cover art for said soundtrack. There are no real restrictions on entries, you can bring in a printed version to any library, or email an electronic version to teenblog@wcl.govt.nz . We’ll display all the artwork we receive during Youth Week (22-30 May), which means you could be (semi)famous.

Synthesiser Patel said he would make a trophy for the winner, so there’s that too.

O.S.T. Competition!

NZ Music Month 2010 logoAs part of New Zealand Music Month and Youth Week we’re asking Wellington Teens, in particular the readers of this blog, to re-imagine any YA book in our collection as a movie and compile the soundtrack. Hence the name O.S.T. (Original Soundtrack)

All you need to do is email us your track listing, the name of the book your movie is based on, your name and your library card number to teenblog@wcl.govt.nz, or, fill out one of the forms at the library. Easy! And you could win prizes (Music Works vouchers, CDs).

Entries close at 5pm on Monday 31st of May and you can enter as many times as you like.

*This is only part one of the O.S.T. Competition, so check back here for further information for more chances to win prizes. Prizes!

Your Perspective on Youthspective

Voting is now open for the Youthspective Competition – People’s Choice Award. This is your chance to choose the photograph that you think best represents your city.

Have a look at the gallery of photos and vote for your favourite Wellington perspective.

What does the winner win? Well, a Lomography SuperSampler Camera and a $50 voucher (thanks to Wellington Photographic Supplies).

More information on Youthspective here.

Yes, Youth Minister

youth-parliament-logoYouth Parliament 2010 is beginning in July. To become a youth parliamentarian you must be selected by your local MP, or you could enter this competition being run by MP Phil Twyford. Youth Parliament can influence NZ policy and members learn allllll about government procedure and democracy.

Also, you can join the Youth Press Gallery to report on the Youth Parliamentarians. You must be a youth!

ReelScience

Are you curious about science? Or do you love filmmaking but aren’t too keen on science?

Well!

ReelScience is a competition for senior secondary school students (Yr 11 – Yr13) that starts on February 10th. To enter you’ll have to make a 2min short film on any aspect of science. There are cool prizes up for grabs like a Mac and film courses. This here clip tells you all about it (or check out their website).

Youthspective

Wellington City Council is running a photography competition for 10-18 year-olds in March. You can win a camera, and maybe even get paid for your photos to be added to the Council’s collection of stock images. Paid! Win! Two appealing words. All you need to do is take photos that captures your youthperspective of Wellington.

It runs from Saturday, the 13th of February, to Sunday, the 14th of March. There is a free photography workshop on Saturday, the 13th of February , here, at the Central Library, at 1pm.

There is more information to be found here.

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Short short story competition: nearly at the finish line

Hello! The closing date for the short short story competition is nearly upon us (5pm Monday 21st), so if you’re writing make sure you email us your story before then. To refresh your memory about the rules, visit here; to refresh your memory about the prize pack, visit here.

Have fun.

Ps If you’re bored now that there’s no school and things we’ve got a few ideas of books to read while sitting in the sun wearing sunblock and eating nice things.

2009 Short Short Story Competition Update!

Hello,

Quick update: the 2009 Short Short Story Competition is here – your chance to win a Cirque du Freak prize pack. Due to popular demand we’ve extended the entry age range to 12 to 18. All you have to do is write a short story of 350 words or less containing these three things: “paramount”, “freak” and “violet”. Easy. Entries close on Monday 21 December. For all the details have a look here.

Have a good weekend!

Have a Robert Muchamore Character Named After You

That’s right, Robert Muchamore is running a competition on his CHERUB website. If you’re quick (you have until the 26th of November) you might find yourself (or your name at least) in one of his books. See the CHERUB news page for more information and to enter.

2009 Short short story comp PRIZES

We announced this year’s Short Short Story Competition (maybe it will be an annual thing!) yesterday. There are some great prizes and here are some photos of them.
These are the books:

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And inside them is … Darren Shan’s signature! I want them but I can’t as one of you guys will get to win them.

Only authors are allowed to write in books! And sometimes librarians.

And as well as the books there is a t-shirt and a bunch of movie passes to see Cirque Du Freak : The Vampire’s Assistant when it opens on January 7th 2010.

ssscprizes2Here’s a photo of the lot! Thanks, Paramount!

All this could be yours! Only if you enter the competition. All the details are here.

 

[Ed: some of the bunch of movie passes will go to excellent short stories that weren’t the winner but were fabulous anyway]

2009 Short Short Story Competition

Update: the competition is now closed. Tune in some time early next year to find out who won.

 

Are you aged somewhere between 13 and 18? Can you write a good short story?

It’s back! The 2009 Short Short Story Competition is here: write an excellent short short story and you could win a Cirque du Freak prize pack, including signed copies of the first six books in The Saga of Darren Shan series, a limited edition t-shirt and movie passes (thanks to the people at Paramount). It’s a fantastic prize, and it’s all very simple really.

So what do you have to do? Write a short story, not more than 350 words (it can be as short as you like), that includes each of the following three words (think outside the box: is the word a noun only, or can it be used another way? Can it be added to, for example -ish or -ed?):

  1. paramount
  2. freak
  3. violet

Your story can be about anything. We will be particularly impressed if:

  • – the story is well written and grammatically correct
  • – the three things listed above are well concealed in the story
  • – the story has a clever twist or point of interest.

Send your stories to teenblog@wcl.govt.nz before 5pm on Monday 21 December 2009. Please include your name and your library card number (very important!). The winner will be announced early in the new year.

Small print:
You must be aged between 13 and 18 to enter 12 and 18 to enter. You must also be a Wellington City Libraries member. Judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into etc etc., although we do like getting emails and comments. The winning story and any others that are particularly special will be published on the teen blog, so if you send a story in be prepared for it to be published.

Good luck!

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, in cinemas January 7 2010. Go to www.thevampiresassistant.co.nz for movie info.

The next Teen Blog competition

We are planning another competition. It has great prizes! We can’t go into too much detail right now, but it’s not too far off. Anyway. Here’s a couple of clues.
1. We ran a similar kind of competition late last year.
2. It may involve vampires! Not romantic ones though.

Re-Draft

If you’re 13 to 19 and a bit of a writer, we have the perfect competition for you : “Re-Draft” – which is run by the Christchurch School for Young Writers.  The best entries each year are published in the school’s annual publication ‘Re-Draft’, and your work might be chosen as the title of the book. That’s right your words, in bright bold colours on the front of the book…

This competition is open to all, and you can enter up to three pieces of work on any subject matter, poems or stories. Jump onto their website for info on the competition and details on how to enter.

Library Week Competition Results

Library Week is now over, and people have won prizes and reviewed and written and created art, and here are some results from the competitions we told you about:

The Graphic Novel competition, 13 to 18 year olds, and for 19+ year olds.

The video competition (voting is open until the 23rd of August).

Also, here’s how the interactive story panned out.

A competition for you

Te Papa have given us some double passes for Our Space to give away, so we’ve thrown together a little quiz to do. It’s really easy, although I wrote it so I probably just think it’s easy. It might actually be quite hard. Anyway, all correct (or mostly correct) entries will go in the draw for one of the double passes. We’ll draw the winners next Friday, the 21 of August.

All entries must be WCL YA cardholders! Sorry but there it is.

Update (a couple of days later, namely on Tuesday the 25th): C’est fini! Congratulations to Zach who will be getting some passes in the post as soon as Simon comes back from his day off.

Into Zines?

The Central Library has got an impressive collection of Zines on the first floor for your browsing and borrowing pleasure. If you want to keep up with the play on what’s hot in the Zine world, what’s new to the collection, plus read some insightful interviews with Zine writers/publishers (thanks to Carmel) then visit the library news blog (tag: zines).

If you’re a creative, self-publishing type then you might be interested in the library week graphic novel competition (our post is here, more info is on the library week website here).

Have a good weekend!

 

ps: what’s a zine? Well, have a look here.

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