INVITING ALL STUDENTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL TO PARTICIPATE IN EMIRATES LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2019
About The Competition
The Oxford University Press Story Writing Competition is held annually by the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature for school and university students.
The inspiration for 2019 is Other Worlds.
How to Enter
- Write your story – use your imagination and creativity to the full, but do remember that your inspiration is Other Worlds.
- You may choose your own title in keeping with Other Worlds.
- Complete all sections of the online entry, attaching your story.
- Entries can be in Arabic or in English.
- You should submit under the appropriate age category, which relates to your age on 7th November, 2018 . Please note the word limit for each category:
- Ages 11 and under (maximum f 500 words)
- Ages 12-14 (maximum f 1000 words)
- Ages 15-17 (maximum f 1500 words)
- Age 18-25 (full-time students in schols, colleges and universities, maximum of 1500 words)
The deadline to submit your story is 7th November, 2018.
You can find some tips on writing a good story here.
The Prize
Winners will be honoured at a prize-giving event at the 2019 Festival and all the winning entries will appear in a published book. Each winner will receive:
- A trophy
- Five copies of the book
- The opportunity to attend a Festival session
Terms and Conditions
- Entrants must be in full-time education and resident in the UAE.
- Copyright of material submitted remains with Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.
- Do not submit work as your own when part of or all of it has been done by someone else; this includes material found online. It must be entirely your own work, and any stories found to contain non-original content will be excluded.
- The winning entrants agree to the Emirates Literature Foundation’s, Emirates Airline Festival of Literature’s and Oxford University Press’s use of their name and photograph in relation to related publicity material and activities. Schools and students should be aware that they might need to obtain parental consent for this.
- Stories should be submitted in Times New Roman font, size 12 point, 1.5 line spacing.
- Stories should be unpublished and not previously submitted to any competition.
- Stories should be no longer than the word limit (entries exceeding the word limit will be disqualified).
- Entries must be received on or before the closing date of 7th November, 2018
- Judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into with regard to these decisions.
- In accordance with normal conventions for writing competitions internationally, entries which do not adhere to the said terms and conditions will not be considered.
Please check that you have followed all the conditions before submitting your story.
Only the winners will be notified in advance by email or telephone, by the middle of January 2019.
All participants will receive a certificate of participation upon submitting their story through the website, and are welcome to join us at the prize-giving ceremony at the Festival.
The Award Ceremony will take place during the Festival on 9th March, 2019.
POETRY-WRITING COMPETITION
About the Competition
The Taaleem Award is a poetry-writing competition for school and university students, held annually by the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.
The inspiration for 2019 is Other Worlds.
How to Enter
- Write your poem – use your imagination and creativity to the full, but do remember that your inspiration is Other Worlds.
- You may choose your own title in keeping with Other Worlds.
- Entries can be in Arabic or in English.
- The poem should not exceed 32 lines.
- Complete all sections of the online entry, attaching your poem.
- You should submit under the appropriate age category, which relates to your age on 7 November 2018 :
- Ages 11 and under
- Ages 12-14
- Ages 15-17
- Age 18-25 (full-time students in schols, colleges and universities)
- The deadline to submit your poem is 7th November, 2018
You can find some tips on writing a good poem here.
The Prize
Winners will be honoured at a prize-giving event at the 2019 Festival, and all the winning entries will appear in a published book. Each winner will receive:
- A trophy
- Five copies of the book
- The opportunity to attend a Festival session
Terms and Conditions
- Entrants must be in full-time education and resident in the UAE.
- Copyright of material submitted remains with Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.
- Do not submit work as your own when part of or all of it has been done by someone else; this includes material found online. It must be entirely your own work, and any poems found to contain non-original content will be excluded.
- The winning entrants agree to the Emirates Literature Foundation’s, Emirates Airline Festival of Literature’s and Taaleem’s use of their name and photograph in relation to related publicity material and activities. Schools and students should be aware that they might need to obtain parental consent for this.
- Poems should be submitted in Times New Roman font, size 12 point, 1.5 line spacing.
- Poems should be unpublished and not previously submitted to any competition.
- Poems should be no longer than the word limit (entries exceeding the word limit are disqualified).
- Entries must be received on or before the closing date of 7th November, 2018 .
- Judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into with regard to these decisions.
- In accordance with normal conventions for international writing competitions, entries which do not adhere to the said terms and conditions will not be considered.
Please check that you have followed all the conditions before submitting your poem.
Only the winners will be notified in advance by email or telephone, by the middle of January, 2019.
All participants will receive a certificate of participation upon submitting their story through the website, and are welcome to join us at the prize-giving ceremony at the Festival.
The Award Ceremony will take place during the Festival on 2nd March, 2019.
In case you have any further queries, please contact:
JASPAL KAUR
HEAD OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT.
