Resourcitate Creative Writing Competition

Resourcitate Creative Writing Competition is an arm of Resourcitate Global Associates Limited. Our motivation is rooted in knowing that having young writers' work published can boost their confidence and motivate them to showcase their creativity in writing. This can in turn encourage young learners to enjoy reading, mining the wealth of resources stored up in their imagination and writing creatively to do their schools proud.

2022 Competition Timeline

May 16

Enrolment opens

September 12

Competition entries submission begins

September 30

Entry submissions Closes

October 27 -- October 31

Release of Results

November 10

Verification Contest

November 22

Announcement of Award Nominees

November 29^th

Award Ceremony

School Enrolment Details

The school entry form will be included in your competition pack. Please include school entry form when submitting your entries and leave any comments/information you may have, in the box provided.

To receive your competition pack, your school will pay a token fee of N7,500 only, per category and send proof of payment to any of our contact details. Please use our FirstBank Acct: 2040595438 for all payments.

About our Parent Company

Resourcitate Global Associate Ltd is a Nigerian-based servicing company specializing in Learning Analytics, Higher Education, Research, Finance, Procurement and IT services to support the front line of learning, research and innovation including the provision of strategic, policy and regulatory advice on new technologies. Resourcitate thrives on its expertise in learning advisory, ethics, data protection and security.

Knowing that the future of our client practises and programmes seeks to promote and encourage favourable behaviours in the communities we serve. Our work gives the opportunity to influence and build a varied portfolio of learning and research to support a wide range of behaviour change initiatives. We are passionate about using social research and evaluation to ensure our clients interventions are evidence based. We ensure that we use appropriate and creative methodologies to design and manage learning interventions and research projects, which may involve the use of quantitative and/or qualitative methods and may include both primary and secondary research. We can also work on several projects at the same time.

Working alongside passionate and knowledgeable colleagues with a strong analytical and/or research focus mindset, across all your projects; we are proud of the skills and confidence to be able to influence the design and evaluation of a range of customer activities.

Competition Rules

The rules listed below will guide you to make sure your entries are valid:

Write-ups must be your pupil/students' own work which should be submitted along with their student entry forms.

Entries should be typed on either an A4 or a foolscap sheet of paper.

Only one entry per pupil/student. There a maximum limit of 25 entries per category. Additional entries will attract a token fee.

All students must include their name and ages on their entries.

All students must correctly fill out Parents’/Guardian's details on their entry forms.

Stories must be told in no more than the specified word limit to avoid disqualification.

Entries must be submitted on/before the submission closing date to avoid rejection.

Please note that failure to submit on/or before the closing date does not translate to a refund of the processing fee paid.

Submission of Entries

The school should upload or email all their students' entries to us using our website: www.resourcitate.org or our email address: resourcitate@gmail.com. Where possible, the school can send hard copies of their Pupils/Students entries to us at Novare Gateway Mall, 2^nd Floor, Airport Road, Abuja.

Word Limit

All stories should be one (1) page long.

Selecting our Winners

After the closing date for a competition, all entries are scrutinized by our seasoned editors and the ten (10) best for every category will be selected. The selected students will be invited for a verification challenge. The best three contestants will then be choosen for the 3 best prizes before the final publication. Our best published 3 contestants will each receive a handsome cash prize and an award plague. The other seven (7) that did not make it to the best three places will be awarded consolation prizes. Prizes vary per region.

The school with the highest number of quality selected entries overall, will be awarded Star School Prize. This comes with an award for excellence, inclusive of our regional books for the school library. Two (2) Runner-Up schools will be awarded framed certificates and complimentary materials for their school library.

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