2022 Competition

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The ACE Children's End of Year Story  Writing Competition 2022

Write your heart out!

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Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

Neil Gaiman

English writer

About the competition

The ACE Annual Children's End of Year Story Writing Competition is inspired by the desire for Ghanaian stories by Ghanaian children, so they own their own voices early in Childhood.

 

The competition invites children from ages 10 to 15 to participate in building a reference library of celebrations in Ghana across cultures and also offer an opportunity for peer education to take place.


The three best stories are awarded in order of gold, silver and bronze. It includes two special prizes, the Frederick Ato Armah Special Prize for Outstanding Imagination and the Ahuntahunu Special Prize for Best Research.

Hello! It's that time of the year again!

It's Competition time!

Write your heart out!!

PMHS is pleased to announce The ACE Children's End of Year Story Writing Competition 2022 is launched. Winning prizes are 1000.00ghs, 700.00ghs and 500.00 ghs respectively including books and more!!!

There's no entry fee required.

This year’s theme is that of Hope.

"Tell your story of hope and how it has inspired you or others"

The panel of judges, all experienced professionals from across multi disciplines remain the same.

The winning entries will feature on the Competition website as well as other online news publications. In addition. The story placed first will also appear in print.

Submission of Entries open on 12th December 2022 and close at midnight 31st December 2022.


We look forward to receiving exciting and original entries playing within the rules of engagement.

All the best!

2022 Theme


Tell your story of hope and how it has inspired you and another

Super Objective

Unearth and cultivate the writing talent of Ghanaian children to own their voices.

Prizes

Winning prizes are one HP laptop each donated by the Patron, Prof. Frederick Ato Armah for the first three winners including cash prizes in the following category for first, second and third winners respectively.


  • Gold - 1000.00 ghs
  • Silver - 700.00 ghs
  • Bronze - 500.00 ghs


Two special prizes, The Frederick Ato Armah special prize for outstanding Imagination and the Ahuntahunu special prize for best research comprise of a hamper and books.

Rules

Originality

All stories must be original

Word limit

Stories should be more than 800 words but must not exceed 1000

English

All work must be in English

Focus on theme

Entry should be focused primarily on the proposed theme and should not have been previously published anywhere

Winners

The winning entry will be published on graphic online and Junior Graphic.

Copyright

Copyright remains with the author. Winning entries will also be published on PMHS website.

Copy

Please keep a copy of your entry

Photo

Send a photo of yourself along with your entry

Story Submissions

All stories must be typed and emailed to theacecompetition@playhows.vip as file attachment

To enter the competition

Register on EDUKIT by clicking the button below. Make note of your EDUKIT ID



Enter competition

Use EDUKIT ID given you as subject when submitting story to  theacecompetition@playhows.vip


Results of best three entries will be available on this website. Only winners will be contacted individually by email and phone

Important Dates

12 December 2022 Submission of entries begin
31st December 2022 Deadline for submission
17th January 2023 Announcement of winners

Patron - Prof Frederick Ato Armah 

Frederick Ato Armah is a Professor of Environmental and Sustainability Science and currently the Director of the Directorate of Research Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC) at the University of Cape Coast (UCC). From August 2016 - July 2019, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at UCC.


Prof Armah founded The Margaret Wulesie Memorial Prize for Excellence in Environmental Science. in 2016

Organising Secretary - Esi Arhin

Esi Arhin is a Multimedia Journalist trained on the job. She worked with the Multimedia Group Ltd on the JoyNews channel on MultiTv as a producer and hosted the network's then flagship news/current affairs programmes "Joint Caucus" and "PM Express". Both programme platforms offered opportunity and challenge to hold government, politicians and key actors from all sectors to task. Esi is known for her work at TV Africa as presenter of the popular morning news magazine show "Daybreak". She has profiled women who have excelled in diverse areas of human endeavor in Ghana and other parts of the world on Tv Africa's "Obaa Mbo", the 2009 CIMG award winning programme of the year.


Meet

The Judges

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EDUKIT is a cloud-based education management application that provides a platform for school administrators and providers of institutional training to plan, organise and execute their activities

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