4-H Zimbabwe hosts : WeWrite National Short Story Contest competitions
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MEMBERS of the Zimbabwe Junior Parliament representing Bulawayo Metropolitan Province have launched an online short story competition which is now replacing the primary schools public speaking competition that was cancelled as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The public speaking competition dubbed My Zimbabwe @40 was supposed to be held on March 26 at the Large City Hall.
As a way of improvising, the parliamentarians have now put in place a national short story competition named #WeWrite and are encouraging pupils to enter. The contest is being bankrolled by Harare’s 4-H Zimbabwe Foundation in association with the Bulawayo Junior City Council.
Child President, Mukudzeishe Madzivire who is a pupil at Bulawayo’s Christian Brothers College (CBC) called on primary and secondary pupils to apply to enter the competition.
He said the competition will run in two divisions – junior, comprising students from Grades 4 to 7 and the senior division, comprising students in Forms 1 to 6.
“Each entrant will prepare a creative text on a topic selected from an appended list of approved topics. Entries in the junior and senior categories should be no more than 800 and 2 500 words in length respectively.
“A five-person panel of community youth leaders will be responsible for vetting entries based on content, style and creative value with each entry being given a score out of a 100,” said Madzivire.