Special Projects
2012 STORYTELLING & STORYWRITING COMPETITIONS FOR SCHOOL STUDENTS
STORYTELLING COMPETITIONS 2012 Conditions of entry and entry forms click here Flyer about STORYTELLINGcompetition click here STORYWRITING COMPETITIONS 2012 Conditions of entry and entry forms click here Flyer about STORYWRITING competition click here ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have a look at last year's winners of the competitions. 2011 Winners
1st place: $300 - Phoebe Campbell - Calare Public School, Orange 2nd place: $200 - Joel Read - Covenant Christian School, Belrose 3rd place: $100 - Brianna Caristo - Covenant Christian School, Belrose Highly commended: Marley Maripa-Campora - St Nicholas of Myra Primary School, Penrith William Boyd - Calare Public School, Orange
2011 Story Writing Competitions HIGH SCHOOL 1. The Traveller - Grace Song, North Sydney Girls' High School 2. Ye Old Candy Land - Arthur Tsanis, St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney 3. 1452, Florence - James Worthington, St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney.
PRIMARY SCHOOL 1. The Truth about the Light - Tyler Davies, Kingswood Public School 2. The Grotto of Pearls - Anna Walding, Kamaroi Rudolf Steiner School, Belrose 3. The First Lighthouse Keeper - Catherine Lopez, Our Lady Queen of Peace Primary School, Gladesville HIGHLY COMMENDED - My Place in the World - Vivian Lai, Kingswood Public School BEST OPENING LINE - The Middle of the Night - Ciara O'Neill, St Brendan's Primary School, Annandale 2010 Winners
STORYTELLING - Students were to submit a DVD showing a storytelling performance of a published or original story that took between 2 and 6 minutes to tell. 2010 Storytelling Competition for students in Yrs 5 & 6 1 $300 - William Boyd - 'The Hairy Toe' - Calare Public School, Orange 2 $200 - Elise Sinclair - 'The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs' - Calare Public School, Orange 3 $100 - Mireille Tamer - 'Tough Lester' - St Nicholas of Myra Primary School, Penrith The winners of the Storytelling Competition were invited to share the stage with professional storytellers to perform their winning pieces at the Sunday Afternoon Family Concert which concluded the NSW State Storytelling Conference 'Weaving Stories Together' on July 25th. STORYWRITING - Students were to submit an original, unpublished story. Stories could be about any subject and should be a maximum of 600 words. 2010 Storywriting Competition for students in Yrs 7 & 8 1 $300 - Molly Ulm - 'Behind the Cereal Box' - Canterbury Girls' High School 2 $200 - Michael Tijono - 'Freedom' - Kogarah High School 3 $100 - Anthony Trikillas - 'The Dreamcatcher of Marlin Bay' - Gymea Technology H.S Prize money provided by Australian Storytelling Guild (NSW) Inc Click here to read the winning stories 2010 Storywriting Competition for students in Yrs 5 & 6 1 $300 - Anthony King - 'The Dummy' - St Declan's Primary School, Penshurst 2 $200 - Daniel Mulconry - 'My Best Friend' - Wallsend Public School 3 $100 - Caitlin Baird - 'Overland Odyssey-A Tale of Courage' - Hinton Public School Prize money donated by Sisters of Mercy, Parramatta. Click here to read the winning stories The judging panel was delighted with the variety and creativity of students’ stories. The following student’s entries received a special mention. Highly Commended Izaac Daly - 'The Storm' - Anna Bay Public School Clare Shaw - 'The Beautiful Music Box' - Cathedral School Bathurst Best opening line Clive Nicolson - 'Mr Jenkin's House' - International Grammar School, Ultimo Special Encouragement Award Sarah Hogg - 'Sun in Drizzletania' - Woy Woy Sth. Public School We congratulate the students and acknowledge the encouragement given by the classroom teachers and look forward to seeing students in your school entering this competition again in 2011. Christine Carlton President Australian Storytelling Guild (NSW) Inc www.storytellersnsw.org.au ccarlton@cia.com.au
Winners of Storytelling Competition
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THE STORY RECIPE BOOK
THE STORY RECIPE BOOK, is a project that the guild members are working on over a couple of years
In 2007 we did the STORY QUILT and that was a huge success with 40 members making a patch depicting a story. This has been made into a CALENDAR [2009 available now] and a BOOK will follow.
The STORY RECIPE BOOK will contain a story about food, eg, food disasters, funny food incidents, best meal, worst meal, last meal] with a recipe and an illustration. It is hoped that this will be made into a beautiful book and also a calendar, similar to the QUILT calendar. MEMBERS are invited, indeed, encouraged to send in a story and a recipe. If you are not a member and would like to be included in the book, membership is only $45 for one year. So members, we only have a few stories in as yet so there is still time. The story must be condensed into a total of 500 words and include a recipe that fits the story. contact Kiran Shah at kiranstoryteller@gmail.com