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I just recently posted my first piece up on the Quirky Kid website about getting children to write, and what benefits there are. I spoke with Kimberley O'Brien who is the principal child psychologist at the clinic and we discussed how writing not only provides a healthy sharing of ideas between family members, but also that writing provides a great outlet for self-expression and may mean that a child suffers less emotional angst because they have a tool to express themself.
I also provided some tips to get children writing, such as getting them to keep a journal, writing letters, or getting your child to enter writing competitions that I gathered from interesting sources.
Here is the post link: http://childpsychologist.com.au/resources/kids-writing
Below are some links I compiled of upcoming writing competitions you may want to encourage your child to participate:
Australia wide competitions
The ABC “Australian Word Map” competition
An ABC run competition with the aim to get kids to include regionalism’s, words which are region specific to create a word map. With prizes to be won.
http://www.abc.net.au/wordmap/competitions/kids_comp.htmNSW Competitions
writenow!
This is a competition run by the Sydney Morning Herald for students in NSW or ACT in years 7, 8 & 9 and must choose one of three story starters provided to continue the narrative. Maxamine 1000 words
http://www.swf.org.au/writenow-competition/Young writer of the year award
This competition is for young people between years 10-12 at school and up to 21 years of age. For this competition entrants need to incorporate the word trigger provided by the Sydney Morning Herald. This year, the trigger word is “Silver.”
http://www.youngwriter.smh.com.au/
Entries close 25th JuneWA Competitions
The Tim Winton Award for Young Writers
The award is open to all students between the ages of five and eighteen in the Perth metropolitan area.
http://www.subiaco.wa.gov.au/template.asp?navSelect=15&mainNavID=15&pageRecID=35
Competition closes 30th of May 2010The Randolph Stow Young Writers Award
Available to kids in the mid-western regions of Western Australia, there are different competitions for children aged between year 4 and year 12.
http://www.alia.org.au/awards/merit/randolph.stow/
Submission date is no later than July 4th 2010.Make Your Own Story Book Competition
This competition is organised by the Children's Book Council of Australia (WA Branch) annually and involves school children creating a picture or story book of their own. There are no word limits and is open to children between year 1 and year 8.
http://wa.cbca.org.au/wamyosb.htm
Competition closes the 4th of June 2010If you have any of your own tips that you would like to share on how to get children writing, or if you have found any other great writing competitions for children, please feel free to share them with us below, especially as I found it difficult to find local writing competitions for some of the states.
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Great Paris! Thank you for all this useful information about writing. Just a quick note, we also would like to invite young people aged 12-18 years to submit articles about mental health, growing up, parent,s etc for publishing on The Quirky Kid Website.
Send you proposed topic to write@quirkykid.com.au
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I found your article to be in-line with techniques we use for my niece.
Recently for her seventh birthday, I bought her a moleskin diary so she could write down her thoughts and she seems to write in it every day.Thanks for the other tips
Meredith
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