Random House Australia is running a writing competition for kids in year 5 and 6. It’s called James Patterson’s Random Shorts story competition.
Write an awesome story about school and you can win a $250 book pack. Download an entry form and read the competition rules on the Random House Australia website.
Entries close 30 July 2012.
We received heaps of fabulous entries for our autumn writing competition! We asked you to imagine a fairytale or folktale had been written as a newspaper article and you had to send us the perfect headline for that article. Congratulations to our winners—here they are:
Under 7s winner: L Sargasso (VIC)
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Under 9s winner: J Riordan (WA)
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Under 12s winner: F Langer (WA)
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The winner in each category won a $20 book voucher. Happy reading! (PS—details of our next writing competition will be up on Alphabet Soup’s website soon … )
Alphabet Soup will be turning THREE in October. Hip hip hooray! So, we’ve decided to have a three-themed writing competition for our spring issue.
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WIN A $20 BOOK VOUCHER (& see your story here on the blog) 
Entries close 21 October 2011
Write your own tale about The Three Little______ (choose your own characters). Your story should be no longer than 450 words and shorter is fine.
Include a competition entry form. This may be printed from the website (see competition rules), photocopied, or contact us to have one emailed or posted to you.
Your entry can be handwritten or typed. Make sure you read the competition rules!
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Don’t forget our Design-a-cover competition closes on 16 September 2011. The winning entry will be used for the cover of our summer issue. Check out our designing tips here.
The autumn issue of Alphabet Soup magazine was posted yesterday, so if you are a subscriber—you’ll find it in your letterbox sometime over the next few days. Yay!
Here’s what you’ll find inside issue 10:
Later today we’ll be announcing the winners of our summer 2010 writing competition and posting the winning poems here on the blog. AND we’ll be posting the Q&A with Oliver Phommavanh. So stay tuned!
Are you a subscriber? Subscribers are entered into a draw every season – this season’s winner receives a $200 book pack from Fremantle Press! (Books may differ from those pictured.)
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