https://www.dymocks.com.au/andy-griffiths-kids-writing-competitionThe Andy Griffiths Kids’ Writing Competition
CALLING ALL KIDS!
Each year Dymocks and Pan Macmillan invite Australian kids to get creative and enter a writing competition that’s judged by the one and only Andy Griffiths.
To celebrate the release of The 104-Storey Treehouse, we’re calling all Andy fans to knock our socks off with their imaginative short stories.
The one major prize winner will receive their story framed with illustrations by Terry Denton. The top 5 entries (including the winner) will each WIN* an Andy Griffiths book pack containing 14 books each supplied by Pan Macmillan valued at $206.86 each.
Just Disgusting! The Day My Bum Went Psycho The Treehouse Fun Book Just Annoying! Charlie and the War Against the Grannies Charlie and the Karaoke Cockroaches The Stinky Street Stories Laugh Your Head Off Laugh Your Head Off Again Laugh Your Head Off Again and Again My Life as a Book The New Kid: Unpopular Me Accidental Pirates 1: Voyage to Magical North Moone Boy: The Blunder Years Theme: Living in a Treehouse
To Enter
Entries can be submitted via the online form below
Register
or mailed to:
Dymocks Booklover,
Level 6, 428 George Street,
Sydney NSW 2000.
(Original hard copy materials will not be returned).
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Entry is open to primary aged school students who are residents of Australia.
Entries due by 1 October 2018
Winners will be announced by Friday 30 November 2018
Terms and Conditions
2017 Winner
Congratulations to Sasha Mackenzie who won the 2017 Andy Griffiths Kids’ Writing Competition.
Andy described the winning entry The Five-Storey Treehouse as “This story is utterly charming and employs colourful and inventive illustration to great effect. Dot and Spot’s treehouse allows them to travel inside a fake body, go for elephant-rides, receive a haircut from a giant pair of scissors, fly on flying pianos, walk upside down in an upside down level and Skype everybody in the world all at the same time. Wow! It contains two complete fully illustrated mini-adventures all in the space of no more than 8 pages. Great work and a worthy winner!”
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Andy Griffiths Writing Competition
How to enter
Entries can be emailed to:
booklover@dymocks.com.auWith “Andy Griffiths Writing Competition” in the subject line,
or mailed to:
Dymocks Booklover,
Level 6, 428 George Street,
Sydney NSW 2000.
(Original hard copy materials will not be returned to the entrant).
Entry is open to primary school-aged children who are residents of Australia.
Entries are due by Monday 1 October 2018.
Winners will be announced by Friday 30 November 2018.
Terms and Conditions
01. Information on how to enter and on the prizes form part of these terms and conditions. Any entry not complying with these terms and conditions is invalid.
02. Promotion commences Tuesday 3 July 2018 at 9 am AEST and entries are due by Monday 1 October 2018 at 11:59 pm AEST.
03. Entry is open to students enrolled in Primary Schools and who are residents of Australia. Only one entry per person will be accepted. Employees of Dymocks Books or any Dymocks branded book store are not eligible for entry. Entrants under the age of 18 must seek permission from a parent or legal guardian before entering.
04. Dymocks reserves the right to request verification of identity, residential address of winners and any other information relevant to entry into or participation in this promotion. Verification is at the discretion of Dymocks, whose decision is final. Dymocks reserves the right to disqualify any individual who is involved in any way in interfering or tampering with the conduct of this promotion.
05. Word length eligible for entry into the competition is 200-400 words. The judges reserve the right to reject work exceeding the word length.
06. The story must be based on the theme – ‘Living in a Treehouse’.
07. Entries may be emailed to
booklover@dymocks.com.au with “Andy Griffiths Writing Competition” in the subject heading, or mailed to: Dymocks Booklover, Level 6, 428 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000. Please note: original hard copy materials will not be returned.
08. All entries must include the entrant’s name, address, telephone number and email address (if available). No updated or revised versions of entries will be considered after initial entry. Dymocks will only accept one entry per person.
09. Dymocks accepts no responsibility for entries not received due to any technical problems.
10. The winner will be judged by Australian author Andy Griffiths and the winner will receive their story framed with illustrations by Terry Denton. All decisions by the judge are final and binding on every person who enters. No correspondence will be entered into.
11. The winner will be announced by Friday 30 November 2018 and entrants will be advised via email of the winners.
12. The one major prize winner will receive their story framed with illustrations by Terry Denton. The top 5 entries (including the winner) will each win an Andy Griffiths book pack supplied by Pan Macmillan.
13. Copyright will remain with the entrant but Dymocks and any third party authorised by Dymocks may, for any purpose, reproduce any work submitted for entry at any point in the future in hard copy, performance readings, adaptations and electronic media. To the extent necessary each entrant is deemed to have granted to Dymocks a non-exclusive, irrevocable and perpetual fee free licence to reproduce the entrant’s work. The entrant, or where the entrant is under the age of 18, the entrant’s parent or legal guardian, agrees to sign any further documentation required by the Promoter to give effect to this assignment. To the extent permitted by applicable law, entrants unconditionally and irrevocably consent to any act or omission that would otherwise infringe any moral rights in any materials submitted as part of their entry and waive all moral rights in such materials.
14. Entrants confirm and promise that their entry is original and does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party. Copying an existing poem/story is called plagiarising and it is against the law. If plagiarism occurs, the entrant will be disqualified. Dymocks will not be held responsible for any plagiarised work entered into the competition.
15. Dymocks reserves the right to disqualify unsuitable entries.
16. If insufficient entries have been received in the opinion of the promoter, Dymocks reserves the right to cancel the competition.
17. Entrants consent to the Promoter using their name, likeness, image and/or voice and their entry in the event that they are a winner in any media for an unlimited period of time without remuneration for the purpose of promoting this promotion (including any outcome) and/or promoting any products manufactured, distributed and/or supplied by the Promoter.
18. The Promoter is Dymocks Franchise Systems (NSW) Pty Ltd ABN 73 002 989 862 of Level 6, 428 George Street, Sydney NSW, Australia 2000, telephone 02 9224 0411. Information collected from entrants will be used in accordance with the terms of the Promoter’s Privacy Policy which can be viewed at
https://www.dymocks.com.au/faq/privacy-security/. Information collected as part of the promotion will be used for the purpose of conducting this promotion (which may include disclosure to third parties, including local lottery authorities, for the purpose of processing and conducting the promotion) and for the promotional purposes surrounding this promotion. By entering this promotion entrants consent to the use of their information as described and agree that the Promoter may use this information, or disclose it to other organisations that may use it, in any media for future promotional, marketing and publicity purposes without any further reference or payment to the entrant.
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