Come April 27, 2017, MyRainbowBooks will hold the 2016 National Creative Writing Contest
for Children. The award ceremony will be held for the
winners and finalists at The Merit House, Maitama, Abuja.
The event is expected to be graced by a host of distinguished personalities, including key stakeholders in
the education sector. Her Excellency, Mrs. Hadiza El-Rufai, wife of the
Executive Governor of Kaduna State, who was on the team of judges for the 2016 contest,
will be the Special Guest of Honour at the award ceremony.
School owners,
representatives of schools, winners and finalists of the contest, as well as
their parents and friends, will also be in attendance.
According to the organizers, in addition to the many fabulous
gifts and certificates that will be given to deserving students and schools,
there will be a public presentation of the 2017MyRainbowBooks’ Children’s
Collection which features the best stories and poems from the 2016 contest. The
event, which will also feature a quiz session where students can instantly win
lovely prizes, promises to be very exciting, inspiring and educative.Awards
will also be given to the schools that excelled in the contest.
Just as the previous editions of the contest, the 2016
contest had many entries from children, public and private schools from many of
the States spanning the entire country. Naturally, the winners and finalists of
the contest are also from different States across the country.
The 2016 contest
was sponsored by the Education Gaps Linkage Initiative and Emerging Platform
Groups, and supported by various organizations and companies including
Marvelous Mike Press, Fenan Digital Prints ltd., Mattini Book Club, Hatlab Ice
Cream Delite, All About Kids, Readers are Leaders Bookshop, Paul Ukpabio's Blog and Book RiverLtd.
The team of judges for the 2016contest included notable persons such as Her
Excellency, HajiaHadiza El-Rufai, award-winning author ChigozieObioma, C. C.
Adetula and Nard Choi.
Speaking on the preparations so far, Mrs. Isang Awah, the founder of MyRainbowBooks
Limited, stated that the contest is organized to help develop children’s
creative thinking and writing skills, and to inspire them to read more, write
more, and dare to attempt great things.
“It is our way of giving back to the
society,” she stated. She also added that the company regularly published the
best entries in each round of contest in order toencourage the children, expose
budding writers, and challenge them, and indeed all Nigerian children, to
continue to hone their writing skills. “We believe that by publishing these
entries, we are creating a platform for young talented writers to be seen and
discovered,” Mrs. Awah said, “and we hope that seeing their
stories and poems in print will motivate the children, and other children, too,
to work harder and keep writing.”
The MyRainbowBooks National Creative Writing Contest for
Children is annual, free-to-enter,and open to children aged five to sixteen
years who are either of Nigerian origin or resident in Nigeria. Individuals may
enter either a poem or short story while Primary and Secondary
Schools can each make a group entry of no
more than 20 different writings comprising either poems or short stories or
a combination of both.
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