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Updated! CLE’s Creative Writing Contest 2019-2020

CLE’s Creative Writing Contest

BELHADDAD, Maria

This April, the Centre for Language in Education (CLE) held its 4th Creative Writing Competition. The Organising Team of this year was led by Maria Belhaddad and Viviana Gonzalez Lobato, who are the International Tutors of the University. With the help of other International Tutors, this year’s contest ran smoothly and was a big success!

The contest was open to all full-time undergraduate and graduate students. It aimed at encouraging students who were keen on writing to share their ideas and creative compositions.

For this year’s contest, the organisers adopted a different approach; instead of providing a theme or topic, they provided a photograph (see above) taken by a student. This not only encouraged students who are into art and photography to have a platform where they could share their work, but it also allowed potential students who wish to enter the contest to have more room for creativity. After all, "one picture is worth more than a thousand words”. Thus, the organisers wanted to give an opportunity for students to share their interpretations of the provided picture through prose (500 to 700 words) or poetry (a minimum of 12 lines).

On April 10th, which was the submission deadline, 10 original entries were received. Thereafter, a two-phase eliminatory process was carried out to determine the winners:

A jury board comprised of international tutors carried the first round of the winners’ selections. As the jury’s votes were worth 60%, all submissions who received at least 1 vote from one of the jury members were able to move on to the second and final selection round.

4 contestants moved to the second round, and for this year, the organisers would like the other students to have a chance to select the winners. Thus, students were invited to vote for their favourite compositions on both Facebook and Instagram (@ASLLC), and students were very responsive in this regard. Eventually, the final winners’ selection process was a combination of the initial tutors’ votes which were worth 60% of the final decision and the students’ votes on social media, which were worth 40% of the final decision. The votes were closed on April 15th and after calculating all the votes, the winners were as follows:

  • Winner (1): Onuoha, Gloria Chioma
  • 1st runner up (1): Kyaw, May Yamon
  • 2nd runner up (1): Ng, Ching Man
  • Honourable mentions (2): Hu, Diqin & Lo, Shi Yu

The winning entries have been uploaded to the CLE website. The event was successful and the organisers would like to warmly thank all parties who were involved in both the organisation and the voting processes.

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