There’s still time to enter our summer writing competition and win a $20 book voucher!
Entries are judged in three age categories: under 7s, under 9s, and 12-and-under.
To download an entry form – and for competition details – head over to the Alphabet Soup website! Entries close 3 January 2010.
This year Wombat is old enough to part in the nativity play, ‘so with his heart full of hope and his head full of dreams, he hurried along to the auditions.’ It’s hard to find a part that’s just right for him and when all the parts have been handed out, he’s a very sad wombat indeed. Everyone crowds around to comfort him but then Bilby has a brilliant idea.
This picture book is a favourite at our house. And the good news is – we have one copy of Wombat Divine to give away! To enter, tell us how you heard about Soup Blog by leaving a comment in the comments box for this post. We will draw a winner at random on 10 December 2009 and ask the winner to contact us with their posting address.
Issue 5 of the magazine is hot off the press, and that means there’s a new writing competition too! Entries are judged in three age categories: under 7s, under 9s, and 12-and-under.
To download an entry form – and for competition details – head over to the Alphabet Soup website! Entries close 3 January 2010.
Psst! If you’d like some tips for writing letters, the Australia Post website has some useful pages especially for kids.
Issue 5 will be arriving in your letterboxes from 16 November. We love the bright and summery cover – it was designed by Kate Larson, winner of our design-a-cover competition!
We received many many excellent entries and choosing a winner was very difficult. We thought Kate’s cover was eye-catching, we loved the kids on the beach, and the design left room for the Alphabet Soup logo and a few words about what’s inside the issue. Congratulations Kate!
So, what will you find inside the upcoming issue?
If you’d like to buy a copy online, subscribe, or renew your subscription, visit our website: www.alphabetsoup.net.au.
Keep reading and writing!
Rebecca Newman, Editor
The Wool Wagon Awards 2009
We’ve just heard that this bush poetry competition accepts entries in a ‘Junior section’ for bush poetry in Performance and Written categories. Entries close on 30 October 2009 (but we’ve heard that this might be extended, so you could call the organisers to confirm the deadline if you need to check this).
Prize money is awarded for first, second, third and fourth places!
Find all the details and download an entry form from the Australian Bush Poets Assoc website.
Just a reminder that our spring writing competition closes on 3 October 2009. (We will accept entries postmarked 3 October 2009.)
If you love or loathe a particular vegetable, put your thoughts on paper! There are $20 book vouchers up for grabs …
If you are 12 or younger, and you like drawing and painting – the design-a-cover competition closes on 16 September 2009! Here are the details:
DESIGN-A-COVER COMPETITION
Tomorrow we are taking the spring 2009 issue on a blog tour! 
From 1 – 7 September, Rebecca Newman (Alphabet Soup‘s Publisher and Editor) will be visiting 7 different blogs, where she’ll be answering questions about the magazine. Find out what started it all, how the magazine could be used in the classroom, who’s on the team at the magazine, and more!
The spring ’09 issue marks the magazine’s first birthday. To celebrate, there’s a set of the first four issues to be won – so make sure you visit Robyn Opie’s blog on 6 September!
Tomorrow you’ll find us at our first stop on the tour, talking to Dale Harcombe at ‘Write and Read With Dale‘.
See you there!
BLOG TOUR DATES:
1 September What led the publisher to start Alphabet Soup magazine?
Dale Harcombe (Write and Read With Dale)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/orangedale
-~-
2 September What goes into ‘whipping up’ an issue of the magazine?
Sally Murphy (Sally Murphy’s Writing for Children Blog) http://sallymurphy.blogspot.com
-~-
3 September Promotion and Alphabet Soup
Claire Saxby (Let’s Have Words)
http://www.letshavewords.blogspot.com/
-~-
4 September Submissions, and selecting material
Mabel Kaplan (Tales I Tell)
-~-
5 September Alphabet Soup in the classroom: benefits for teachers
Dee White (Teachers Writing Helper)
www.teacherswritinghelper.wordpress.com
-~-
6 September ‘First birthday’ giveaway. Win a set of the first four issues!
Robyn Opie (Writing Children’s Books)
http://www.robynopie.blogspot.com
-~-
7 September Who’s on the team behind Alphabet Soup magazine?
Sandy Fussell (Stories Are Light) http://www.sandyfussell.blogspot.com
-~-
You can subscribe to Alphabet Soup via our website www.alphabetsoup.net.au
Spring 2009 Writing Competition: entries close 3 October 2009.
This competition is open to children aged 12 and under. Entries are judged in three age categories.
Win a $20 book voucher!
Write a poem up to 10 lines long (shorter is fine!) about a vegetable you find growing in a garden. Include a competition entry form (available from our website). We will accept handwritten and typed entries. Keep a copy of your entry as we cannot return entries.
See competition rules on the entry form, and get writing!
If you are a subscriber, the spring issue of Alphabet Soup should be in your letter 
box early next week!
Inside you will find:
See our website for info about our writing and design-a-cover comps, and for info about how to subscribe: www.alphabetsoup.net.au.
alphabetsoup.net.au 