Eligibility Criteria: Speaker's Award for Youth Writers
Eligibility Criteria
Writers must be in grades 7 to 12.
Writers must reside in Ontario and attend school in Ontario.
Original fiction and non-fiction submissions will be accepted.
Poetry will not be accepted.
Academic essays will not be accepted.
Short stories or personal essays must be between 500 and 2500 words in length.
Entries will be judged on the basis of originality, style, general presentation, as well as spelling and grammar.
Submissions will be accepted through an online application.
Submissions will be accepted from individual writers and from teachers on behalf of their students. Teachers may submit up to ten personal essays/short stories per class, but no more than one per student.
