Education Bulgaria Project #22266

Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition

by CORPluS Foundation

Project Report | May 27, 2021
11th BCWC National winners and Award ceremony

By Dimitar Tsekov | Executive Director

Due to the COVID Pandemic all stages of the Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition were organized online. After the preliminary judging the best 18 works from all 7 categories advanced to the national judging which took place at the last weekend of January. 14 national judges, well known experts in their professional fields, reviewed the selected works and came up with the top 3 in each age category. The jury was impressed by the emotional stories, the colorful descriptions of characters and settings, the wonderful use of the English language and the meaningful messages of the students’ pieces of writing.

The Award ceremony was prerecorded and uploaded on the YouTube channel of the competition. All the winners were presented with videos, photos and short bios. The award ceremony started with a brief address from the Executive director of CORPLUS Foundation, followed by greetings from the Cultural and Educational Affairs Officer of the US Embassy and the founder of the competition – Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Vaune Hough-Snee. The Bulgarian Ambassador in Pakistan also greeted the winners as there were two Pakistani students among them.

All winners received certificates of achievement, interesting books in English and many other gifts. The American University in Bulgaria announced their traditional special awards - participation at the AUBG International Summer camp and AUBG English Language Summer Course. Those awards were given to Mihaela from Vidin and Mihaela from Varna.

A famous Bulgarian actress read the poem of one of the winners and expressed her satisfaction with the high quality of the students’ works. She wished all the participants to continue creating such wonderful and catchy fairytales, stories and poems.

You can see the whole ceremony at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MchUwKeP8V4

A booklet with all wining works was created and uploaded on the web site of the Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition:

http://www.creativewriting-bg.com/assets/BOOKLET-2021-Winners.pdf

It is worth reading all those wonderful pieces of writing! Enjoy them!

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Feb 2, 2021
11th Creative Writing Competition is underway

By Dimitar Tsekov | Executive Director

11th Creative Writing Competition is underway
By Dimitar Tsekov - Executive Director

The 11th edition of the Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition is underway and it is getting closer to its final stage. The registration started on October 5th and it was completed by October 25th. 126 schools registered for participation in the competition and over 2300 participants took part in the competition. This year for the first time we have an international participation – 92 students from Pakistan. It is a result of the newly established partnership with “Eye on Ivy” organization from Pakistan.

The writing days were organized on November 24 and 25th. Due to the COVID pandemic all the schools in Bulgaria were on distance learning and the competition was organized online. The students had an hour to write on topics provided by the organizers – 3 topics for each grade. They were unusual and provoked the creative and imaginary thinking of the students. The students really enjoyed them and among the most popular among them were: The Earth’s new clothes; Once upon a time, bees forgot how to make honey; If only she hadn’t chosen the red one; Bottled emotions are on sale; When nothing is going right, go left, etc.

The first round of judging also was organized online. 48 judges who are experts in different spheres were involved in the selection of the national qualifiers. The judges were impressed by the outstanding English language skills of the students, their distinctive styles, the voices of their characters, and all the transporting descriptions of setting and mood. They distinguished themselves as exemplary storytellers sharing vivid images and deep emotions and perceiving the world around them in a mature way. The 18 best works in each grade qualified to the national round of judging which will happen online on January 30th and the winners will be announced on February 1st. The Award ceremony will be organized online at the end of February and all the participants and their teachers will be invited to be part of it.

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Sep 25, 2020
Summer training creative writing opportunities

By Dimitar Tsekov | Execurive Director

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