Can you uplift someone with your words?
Enter the Ryburn schools creative writing competition for chance to win prizes up to £100. It's open to students from any year group.
- Ryburn deadline: 11am Wednesday 6 May 2020
- Email your entries to: publish@rvhschool.co.uk
Write your own creative writing, either prose or poetry, of either 25, 250 or 750 words. Your writing may have any theme; it can be scary, sad, funny, inspirational or anything you want but it must have a ‘happy ending’ and/or positive message. You can get as creative or as unique as you like. There's some ideas below that might help.
The Ryburn competition will be judged by a panel including journalist and novellist Emma Lee-Potter, and is part of a Calderdale-wide competition with other local schools. Good luck! Get writing, we can't wait to read your entries!
Hints and tips for writing
remember we need a positive/happy ending
are you going to write in prose (like a story) or a poem?
think about AV (Bedrock vocabulary) and SO (a variety of sentence openers)
if you want to use a picture for inspiration that is fine, you can include it in your entry
Don't know where to begin?
Here's a few ideas to get you started.
Start with a picture:
Pictures are a great place to find inspiration. Find an image that appeals to you and see what ideas it can spark. Maybe the hot air balloons in our image could be your starting point? You could include your image to illustrate your writing.
Sentence ideas:
Start with a present participle verb (ing words): Screaming with joy, the boy..... Rising, the balloon…
Begin with an adverb (-ly): Glamorously, ... Suddenly, ...
Use the second person (you): You didn’t see me that day ... You must have been so excited that moment that you saw me surprise him ...
Vocabulary ideas:
buzzing urge peer curiously wispy supreme charismatic crafty teeming precious crimson silhouette