Cloud of Think competition and latest ideas: Spring, 2019

Posted by Cloud on Jan 24, 2019 in Competitions | 0 comments

CloudofThink – 2018 Creative Writing Competition AND MORE!

CATEGORIES for COMPETITION

THEME: THE ONE AND THE MANY: THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY OR HOW TO BE ALONE WITHOUT BEING LONELY.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN INDIVIDUAL?

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING ALONE AND BEING LONELY?

IS IT MORE DIFFICULT TO BE YOURSELF TODAY THAN IN THE PAST?

HOW DOES A PERSON MAKE THEIR STAMP ON THE WORLD?

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF CREATIVITY IN INDIVIDUALITY?

CAN IT BE LONELY BEING ONESELF?

• Flash Fiction (50-250 words or between a quarter of an A4 page and a whole page)
• Short Story (500-2500 words or somewhere between two and ten pages)
• Poetry (unlimited but generally will fit in one page.)

PRIZE DISTRIBUTION

• Winning entry in each category to be published on CloudofThink and also in Spioraid Signals at end of year. Book vouchers will be awarded too; the winner of each category get a €15 voucher for Waterstones.
• Runner-up entries in each category to be published only on CloudofThink.

DEADLINE: MONDAY 25TH OF FEBRUARY

IDEAS FOR MORE

• Is there time to invite a writer to the school? Could be done in conjunction with the launch of the competition. For example, Cork performance poet Billy Ramsell (very cool guy, worth looking up – if anyone could change a student’s mind about the value of poetry, it’s him). I believe Poetry Ireland has a fund for writers to visit schools (must be confirmed).
• Book Club Vibes and Scribes Wordsworth Classics (out of copyright). You can buy books that are out of copyright for very little in Vibes and Scribes.
• Bletchley Park idea:  a challenge on the website every week.
• Collaboration Book in teams, each team doing a different category.
• Social Media Reddit  – sub-reddits, different category: writing prompts.
• Opinion pieces
• Printed anthology
• History of the school?
• WATA? Or, What’s All That About? Where pupils can explain things they’ve been researching or have expertise in.
• Cloud of Think quiz – by category, e.g, a short story round, a features round etc.