From Stacey of Gisborne Home School Group

Good morning,

I am passing this around to all home educators and please feel free to continue to pass it around to those who maybe interested.

Below is a email from Dawn at http://www.shakespeare.org.nz/programmes/sgcnz-national-shakespeare-schools-production
informing us they now allow home educated students to participate in their festival. This is exciting news and wonderful that our children are being included and allowed the same opportunity as children in registered schools.

Hello Stacey

… I was about to contact the Home School Association.

At SGCNZ’s last Board Meeting, we decided we will now allow Home Schoolers to participate as long as:

a) The Home School Association joins SGCNZ joins as a Friend (as do schools) $125 per annum
b) That groups pay the joint SGCNZ Friends Fee of $65 to participate
c) That all the Criteria are adhered to

If you are interested in attending the National Festival in Wellington from 31 May – 3 June as Non-Performers this year, you can request a Non-Performer Pack.

Best wishes

Dawn.

Nga mihi nui,

Stacey
Gisborne Home School Group

A note from Rosie:

Hello friends.

Just a quick email to let you know that this year in the Australasian CALEB Prize for writers there is a special section for budding young authors. I know there are a lot of young homeschoolers out there who are working on a book! I’ve met some of them.  So here’s a chance to have your manuscript read and assessed by some judges, with the possibility of winning some money and further editing help.

I’ll paste below an extract from the Omega Writers website. Check it out yourself and encourage your young writers to have a go! http://www.omegawriters.com/wp/?page_id=107

The Boom Prize is a cash award of $500 for an unpublished manuscript. It is provided by Rosie Boom, winner of the children’s section of the CALEB Prize in 2010 and 2011. It does not include publication (although obviously winning a prize enhances future chances of this and may interest one of our ministry partners).

Criteria for the Boom Prize:

(1) it embodies the ideal Tolkien wrote about in On Fairytales: hope.

(2) any manuscript written by an author under the age of 21 at the time of entry

(3) manuscripts must be 30,000 words or less. If over this word limit, please contact us before entering. Word limit exemptions may be granted beforehand, but will NOT be granted after entry.

Exclusions

1. The judges will not consider any eBook or book which has had only internet publication at this time. Consider the unpublished section or contact us if you have any queries

2. Judges and Omega Writers Committee members are ineligible for the CALEB Award but may enter to obtain reviews through the extensive reviewing process provided by our ministry partners. They may not progress beyond the short list stage.

3. Australasian residents are eligible for the CALEB Prize and the Boom Prize, non-Australasian residents are eligible only for the Boom Prize.

All the best!

Rosie Boom

www.rosieboom.com

ebooks available at: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/161360

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