A Literary Competition: Your Singapore Through Their Eyes (PROSE/POETRY/PLAY)

Introduction

“Your Singapore Through Their Eyes: A Literary Competition”, or YSTTE, is a student initiative of Nanyang Girls’ High School, under the auspices of the school’s National Education Committee. This writing competition is open to all students between the ages of 7 to 16. Students will be given free rein to pen their literary creations on the theme of “What makes Singapore, Singapore?”.

The aims of this competition are to:
· Allow students to polish their literary skills in creative writing
· Provide young students with the opportunity to look at Singapore in another perspective
· Let these young students realise the uniqueness of Singapore and her culture in their own way
· Promote national identity from an early stage
· Allow students to unreservedly put across their views of Singapore

Judging of Entries
1. Entries will be judged on the following criteria:
a. Relevance to community, significance towards national identity (25%)
b. Originality and completeness of storyline (30%)
c. Organisation, development of ideas expressed and usefulness or appropriateness of examples where relevant (25%)
d. Consistency of language usage, proper use of grammar, spelling, punctuation, variety in sentence structure and range of vocabulary. (20%)
2. Top 30 entries will be short-listed to be published in a book anthology ‘Your Singapore through Their Eyes’.
3. The 30 short-listed entries will be submitted to professionally qualified Language Arts teachers for a final round of judging.

Style Guides
1. Entries can be in any form, including prose, poetry or play.
2. They must be typed in:
a. Font type: Arial;
b. Font size: 12 point;
c. 1.5 line spacing;
d. 1 inch margin on all sides and
e. Single sided print on A4 paper

Administrative Procedures
DO:
1. Write the title of your essay at the top right hand corner of each page of your manuscript.
2. State the total number of words written at the end of your manuscript.
3. Number each page.
4. Submit 3 copies of the manuscript if you are sending hard copies.
5. Attach the official application form, properly and completely filled, during submission of manuscript.

More information can be found in http://www.ystte.com/.

Mysterious Poet No.6

Artistic surrounding
Full of displays
Unique artwork
Painted patterns of arts
Humorous in different angles
"What are they doing?" heard a voice from a distance
"No idea. Exploring", came a reply.
Chaotic from a distance
Foggy and raining.
Causing darkness in the art room.