Corona Gold

Writing contest for kids ages 8 and up and anyone else who feels like entering!
Update:
The top 20 stories of the “Corona Gold” writing contest from July 2020 can be found here.
The announcement for the “Corona-Gold” writing contest.
For many weeks, we have all spent more time at home than we are used to and than we wanted to. For children in particular, this remains a challenge: they have to study at home, they can hardly meet their friends, and they also miss out on leisure activities such as the sports club or a visit to the swimming pool. Instead, they spend a lot of time in front of the PC – and much more time alone with themselves than usual.
At the same time, however, this state of affairs is an invitation. Namely: to try out something new! Children who participate in the DAI writing program “HD Ink – Ideas on Paper” have sent us great texts – “Corona gold,” so to speak. And so we came up with the idea of launching a writing contest.
We want to give more room to the children’s imagination, which is getting short shrift at the moment alongside all the schoolwork. We want to encourage them to tell stories and play with language. Because children are full of stories!
Some just start writing. Others want guidance: How do you invent the heroes of a story? How do you find a form, how do you make the story exciting?
For this we have a tutorial tutorial! On just one page, every child who has the beginning of a story inside them gets easy-to-follow instructions on how to continue writing. In addition, Playmobil figures show in a funny movie how a story is created. Poems or other art forms are so equally welcome!
The best stories will be awarded a prize and published on our homepage.
You want to participate? It’s that easy!
- Check out our tutorial and our movie if you like. Of course you can also just start with your story!
- Email your story, including your full name and age, to: hd.ink@dai-heidelberg.de.
- The deadline is July 15, 2020.
- All aspiring authors from the age of 8 can take part.
- And: There are many great prizes to be won!
And now: Get to your pens – we look forward to your ideas!
We would like to thank Marielle Auriga, lecturer for creative writing and German as a foreign language, who supported us with her expertise and the didactic preparation of the content on a voluntary basis.
Conditions of participation:
The “Corona Gold” writing competition is organized by the DAI Heidelberg, Schurman-Gesellschaft e.V..
All children and young people under the age of 18 are eligible to participate with the consent of their legal guardians.
To enter, participants must submit their stories or other art forms via email to hd.ink@dai-heidelberg.de. Only submissions with the child’s name and age will be considered. Deadline for entries is Wednesday, July 15, 2020, and a variety of prizes will be drawn from all entries. Payment of the prize and legal recourse are excluded.