Organiser
The Hong Kong
Young Writers Awards 2017
“You can make anything by writing.”
– C.S. Lewis
P3, the publisher of
Playtimes
magazine, now invites schools
to register to enter the seventh-annual HKYWA.
Budding authors and artists must register
through their school before 31st October 2016.
Every school must send a completed registration
form to
I
ntroducing an exciting opportunity for all budding
writers, artists and filmmakers!!
Does your child have a creative and extraordinary
artistic ability that should be showcased for all to
see? The Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2017
(HKYWA) offers young people the opportunity to
participate in a regional creative competition to win a
variety of prizes and even the chance to be published!!
Primary and Secondary school students are invited to
use their creativity and imagination to engage with this
year’s topic The New Tales of Old Shanghai. Original
pieces of Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction, Cover Art and
Digital Storytelling will be accepted and assessed by our
panel of judges during this academic year. Over 100 top
entries will be published in an anthology and recognised
at our awards ceremony in April 2017.
Every school in Hong Kong has been sent an invitation
to register, so please get in touch with your English,
Film Studies or Media teacher to make sure your school
can be involved this year!
-
Playtimes
is thrilled to sponsor the awards for Different
Learning Abilities. We can’t wait to review this year’s
exceptional and innovative submissions!
The New Tales of the Old Shanghai
This year’s topic The New Tales of the Old Shanghai
explores the vast and extraordinary Old City of
Shanghai also formerly known as the Chinese city,
is the traditional urban core of Shanghai, China. Its
boundary was formerly defined by a defensive wall.
The Old City was the county seat for the old county
of Shanghai. With the advent of foreign concessions
in Shanghai, the Old City became just one part of
Shanghai’s urban core but continued for decades to be
the seat of the Chinese authority in Shanghai.
Judges will recognise entries that address the
importance of the Old Shanghai within the context of
historical China, and the significance it still has today.
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