Children's Novel Competition on Green Solutions with cash prizes of £400 offered by Green Sotires

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Total reward

0 $

Nonprofit organization

Green Stories

Deadline

14 Sep 2020

Study level

Vocational Education

Opportunity type

Competitions

Opportunity funding

Full funding

Eligible Countries

Algeria , Comoros , Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon , Mauritania , Oman , Qatar , Somalia , Syria , United Arab Emirates , Bahrain , Djibouti , Iraq , Kuwait , Libya , Morocco , Palestine , Saudi Arabia , Sudan , Tunisia , Yemen

Eligible Region

All Regions

Green Stories is offering a children's novel competition sponsored by OrzoCoffee. As it is looking for stories for children that in some way touch upon ideas around building a sustainable society.

Eligibility criteria:

Competition will consider all genres, and the story doesn’t have to be about sustainability or climate change directly – but stories must include green solutions.
Most stories set in the future are dystopian, meaning they have a pessimistic view of society. We will consider all stories, but we encourage you to imagine a more positive settings and practices for your stories. You can find out more about why we recommend positive stories by clicking here. Do feel free to draw upon the resources in this Green Stories website to write your story (found in the menu on the
homepage. Each page provides links to articles/videos that describe the ideas and also ideas for how such ideas may be integrated into stories.
Length: There will be two categories with corresponding suggested length: preschool/ illustrated books (2-6) max 1000 words; young readers category (7-11) max 2,500 words.
Competition is open to all, as long as it has not been published elsewhere.
All submissions must be in English and conform to the green stories criteria of showing a positive vision of what a sustainable society might look like or in some way smuggling in green solutions/policies/characters in the context of an otherwise mainstream story.

Prizes:

Total value of £400: £200 for best pre-school/illustrated book (aimed at age 2-6) and £200 for best novel in young reader’s category.

About Green Stories:

Green Stories is a platform for writing stories on a green and sustainable society. It offers writing competitions for all genres/formats and with various deadlines.

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