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Annual African Short Story and Poetry Contest: SUBMISSIONS OPEN 1 MARCH 2022 AND CLOSE 31 August 2022.

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What is this about?

Poetry & Short Story Competition (English & Afrikaans)

Syllabis presents its first Poetry /Prose Competition. The aim is to give young people the opportunity to express themselves in a public forum, and take part in a poetry slam and a creative writing workshop.

Writers love competitions. There’s the creative stimulus of an interesting prompt, the promise of kudos and validation, and of course publication and prizes. The Syllabis iAfrikana contest is a new writing competition, writing short stories and poetry with a focus on the African bushveld. It launches in March 2022 and runs to final submissions with a closing date of 31 July 2022. We will accept early submissions.

If you are looking to take your writing to the next level, then entering our writing competition will help you to achieve this.

Goal

The goal of the competition is to help promote the writing aspirations of all school going students.

Judges

The panel of judges comprises 3 members, all qualified English / Afrikaans educators with a passion for literature.

Who is eligible:

  1. All Syllabis Learning Registered Students that are currently registered with our institution.
  2. Students from any registered school in South Africa including all students that study from home.

Prompts and Wordcount

Some competitions ask for a story on any topic, up to a set wordcount. But if your parameters are too broad, comparing stories is very hard: How do you judge a 200-word flash against a 5000-word novella?

  • We will set a 3 000-word limit for short stories and a 36-line limit on poetry
  • Theme – South African Bushveld

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What do you win?

Prizes

  1. At initial selection, we select 5 semi-finalists from the received submissions.
  2. The 5 semi-finalists travel via shuttle (Safarilink) to a beautiful game lodge situated in the gaming region of Hoedspruit and stay at the wonderful Toro Yaka game lodge.
  3. If minors, they are accompanied by 1 parent if requested. If over the age of 14, the dedicated teacher will be responsible for their wellbeing. Terms and conditions will be provided beforehand.
  4. Semi-finalists and any guardians stay on site, all expenses paid for 2 nights, attend 2 game drives, recite the meaning of their short story during the evening “Boma” story telling session and get judged by 3 specialist English / Afrikaans literature educators.
  5. Winners will be announced in September or early October 2022.
  6. Prizes:
    1. If the winner is a Syllabis learner, their entire education up to grade 9 is funded by Syllabis learning, grade 10 – 12 students get a R20 000 rebate against their studies with Syllabis Education.
    2. If the winner is a non Syllabis Education student, they win: Prizes to the value of R20 000.

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How do you Register?

Open to all students - Please use the registration form below.

  1. For Syllabis Education students, login to your learning portal and upload your submissions. Submissions are limited to 3.

  2. For all other students, please complete the entry form below, or simply send your completed work to ia*****@sy***************.com after mentioning the competition on Social Media. Use the form below.

Register to enter here:

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