YAC Category Requirements

Category Requirements

Event Date - End of May, 2023

District Writing due - Feb. 3

Due to CWTAG - March 3

Creative Writing - Grades 3-6

  • Typed in Google Docs

  • Free of any errors

  • In Arial font, size 12

  • Have a 1" margin all the way around

  • No more than one typed page

  • Original work, written this school year


On the top please TYPE:

  • Name, Grade, District, Creative Writing #

Poetry - Grades 3-6

  • Typed in Google Docs

  • Free of any errors

  • In Arial font, size 12

  • Have a 1" margin all the way around

  • Eight lines up to one typed page

  • Original work, written this school year

  • Include one non-copyrighted image that compliments the writing


On the top please type:

  • Name, Grade, District, Poetry

Personal Narrative-Grades 3-6

  • Typed in Google Docs

  • Free of any errors

  • In Arial font, size 12

  • Have a 1" margin all the way around

  • No more than one typed page

  • Original work, written this school year

  • Include one non-copyrighted image that compliments the writing


On the top please TYPE

  • Name, Grade, District, Personal Narrative

Argumentative - Grades 5-6

  • Typed in Google Docs

  • Free of any errors

  • In Arial font, size 12

  • Have a 1" margin all the way around

  • No more than one typed page

  • Original work, written this school year

  • Include one non-copyrighted image that compliments the writing


On the top please type:

  • Name, Grade, District, Argumentative Prompt #

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