150 words - 450 words. Please Note: If the writing is longer than 500 words, it will be disqualified.

Deadline: On December 26, 2013

We will publish the list of winners on January 27th, 2014

Grand Prize for Multi-Media (Candidates should submit text and video.)

Award:

1st Prize: Won 100,000.-

2nd Prize: Won 50,000.-

Junior Grand Prize for Multi-Media (Same as above)

Award:

1st Prize: Won 100,000.-

2nd Prize: Won 50,000.-

Grand Prize for Writing

(Candidates submit only text. All applicants will considered for the Writing competition..)

Award: Won 60,000.-

2nd Prize: Won 50,000.-

Junior Grand Prize for Writing (Same as above)

Award: Won 60,000.-

2nd Prize: Won 50,000.-

Teacher's Prize  (This year: Megan, Lowrie, Lindsey)

Award: Won 50,000.- (The teachers donate 10 dollars for the prize)

Most viewed video Prize on the festival board of our website (http://aloud.kr/xe/wf). One of our winners can get this prize.

Award: Won 50,000.-

Junior contestants are middle school students or younger. Younger students will receive extra bonus points onto their scores.  

Judges: Megan, Lowrie, Lindsey, Joshua, John, Colleen

We have six judges from our school. The minimum and maximum scores from each judge will be discarded. We will add all remaining scores to select the winner. Students should first post their entries onto their teacher’s board. The teacher will help them with editing. The teacher will then post the final submission onto the board from December 1st: http://aloud.kr/xe/wf

English Aloud has the right to post all content from the contest on our website.

Everyone should submit a writing about the topic. Please talk to your students about writing and discuss it in class. Some students may prefer to write it in class. Some students may want to write it alone. Every submmission should be editted by the teacher in class or out of class.