Short Story Writing Overview

The voice of young people’s creative literary imagination that reveals an insight into their critical thinking within the boundaries set by short story conventions.  The key to language learning and developing proficiency in a language is in writing, especially in the field of creative imaginative expression.

Details 

2022 Theme

The theme for this year is Freedom. Students will be expected to include this theme in their stories. 

Target Age Group : 15 to 19 years of age

Submissions

We will be accepting only 1 entry per school to keep the competition manageable. As you may have multiple candidates, we suggest schools to run a schoolwide Short Story Competition within the next few weeks with the overall school winner entered for the ESU Short Story Competition. This will ensure a fair selection of entrants from each school.

Short Story Competition Guidelines

•     Open to students from ESU member schools and organisations 

•     Age limit : 15 to 19 years of age

• Competition submission  deadline : 14 November midnight 

•   All submissions must be typed in

Font: Times New Roman

Size: 12

Spacing: 1.5
 

• Short stories should not exceed 1200 words

•   Submissions must include a cover page with

Name of student and date of birth

Name of school/organisation

Title of short story
 

• Every typed page must contain title of short story as a header

Entries to be sent to this email (esu@esu.cl)

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