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RSWCA Season 7 Prize Winners Announcement!

By thewriterscorner | September 9, 2022 | Comments 1 comment

The result of the 7th edition of The Rising Star Writing Competition and Awards themed: ‘Dreaming With Your Eyes Open’, is finally here!

Are you one of the selected lucky creatives?

Let’s find out!

In this Season 7 of the Rising Star Writing Competition and Awards (RSWCA), we launched the submission of entries on the 10th of May, 2022, to the 10th of June, 2022, and as usual, it was opened to Pan Nigerian Primary and Secondary School kids within the age bracket of 8 -16 years, who were to showcase their creative writing skills while writing a minimum of 250 and 500 words short story respectively, that reflects and captures the theme; ‘Dreaming With Your Eyes Open.’

We recorded a total of 251 entries, of which 31 of them were from Primary and Secondary Schools in Lekki, Lagos Island, Lagos Mainland, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Awka, Onitsha, and Agbor. While the rest of the 220 entries were from individuals across the country.

And at the end of the competition and screening process, 4 participants emerged as winners.

Selection Criteria

We congratulate every participant for taking the bold step to contest in this writing competition in an era where school children are distracted by the media and a majority of them decide not to be great readers.

Congratulations once More!

Out of the 251 entries received, 247 entries did not make it to the top due to some strict measures of the assessment put in place. 73 entries were disqualified based on some factors such as; non-adherence to the stated length of words, age, originality of work, display of writing skills mastery, late submission of entries, and submission of more than an entry.

In hosting The Rising Star Writing Competition and Awards (RSWCA), we aim to train young writers and hone their writing skills to trust in their abilities without parental or adult influence while displaying their skills and owning their content originality.

List of Season 7 RSWCA Prize Winners

We have 4 winners this year. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners for secondary school, and only one winner emerged in the primary school category as the 3rd place winner. All 4 winners were for short story writing as we did not have a competition for poetry this season.

Secondary School Category (Short Story Writing):

1st Place Winner – Sijuanu-Olowu, 12 Years Old, Corona Day Secondary School, Lekki

2nd Place Winner – Oluwanifise Adeleye, 13 Years Old, The Livingspring High School, Awoyaya

3rd Place Winner – Fareedah Adams, 14 Years Old, Corona Day Secondary School, Ibeju-Lekki

Primary School Category (Short Story Writing)

1st Place Winner – Nil

2nd Place Winner – Nil

3rd Place Winner – Olumayowa Kuti, 10 Years Old, St. Saviour’s School, Ikoyi

Award Ceremony

All winners are expected to grace the award presentation ceremony scheduled in October at the location of the various schools of the winners. With the appropriate date and time effectively communicated to the schools respectively, and within a reasonable and workable time frame that matches each school’s schedule.

This ceremony is usually of huge interest to school children and students as they participate in highlights of music, drama, games, quizzes, and comedy hosted in Victoria Island, Lagos. However, since the disruption of the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic, the award presentation ceremonies have been held separately at the different schools of each winner, so as to effectively control crowds.

Children focused on showcasing their violin skills

We sincerely appreciate all candidates and schools who sent in their entries and also partook in this Season 7‘ Rising Star Writing Competition and Awards (RSWCA). Your creative skills are highly commendable and you had great delivery of your stories.

We celebrate and congratulate all the winners. Keep up with the learning and improving on your skills. You never know where it will take you tomorrow.

That is why, We, at The Writer’s Corner, would always be here to nurture kids, literacy teachers, and independent entities who are interested and need a platform to develop and groom their creative writing skills.

Special Appreciation and Mention

We are most grateful and thankful to ALL our sponsors: Greenlife Pharmaceuticals, Bank of Industry, Bluegates, and Individuals, for their undying and unwavering support towards this open competition that helps to develop great writing skills in the lives of our dear African children.

We sincerely request and call for more sponsors so as to enable us to continuously improve our system of operations.

Now Guess What?

If you missed out on Season 7’ of the Rising Star Writing Competition and Awards, don’t worry. You can still catch up with Season 8’, which will be announced in due time.

And for schools that sent in entries but for one reason or the other didn’t make it through the screening process, Don’t Give Up! We encourage you to get ready to storm our SEASON ‘8’, which is coming up soon.

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Result of Rising Star Writing Competition and Awards Season 7

By thewriterscorner | August 31, 2022 | Comments 0 Comment

We are happy to announce the result of the 7th Edition of The Rising Star Writing Competition themed ‘Dreaming With Your Eyes Open.’ The results have also been widely published on our website, www.thewriterscorner.com.ng, and other conventional and social media organs.

The Winning Entries are compiled and published by The Writers Corner, in the Writers Corner Blog, and in anthology publications of Poems and Short Stories with credits given to the writers. The organizers will have unrestricted use of the materials on all their platforms.

Details of the results show that:

WINNING POSITIONS	SECONDARY CATEGORIES
Short Story
1st Position	Name: Sijuanu-Olowu, Title: ‘Dreaming With Your Eyes Open’. School: Corona Day Secondary School, Ibeju- Lekki, Lagos, Age:12 Years, Class: Year 7
2nd Position	Name: Oluwanifise Adeleye, Title: ‘Dreaming With Your Eyes Open’, School: The Livingspring High School, Awoyaya, Lagos, Age: 13, Class: Year 9
3rd Position	Name: Fareedah Adams Title: Dreaming With Your Eyes Open’, School: Corona Day Secondary School, Ibeju-Lekki Lagos, Age: 14 Years, Class: Year 8
Short Story Writing	PRIMARY CATEGORIES
1st Position	NIL
2nd Position	NIL
3rd Position	Name: Olumayowa Kuti, Title: ‘Dreaming With Your Eyes Open’, School: St. Saviour’s School, Ikoyi

We congratulate these children and every other child that participated in this short story Competition. Well done children for participating, you are all winners.

We will continue to work with Class Teachers and Literacy Teachers to discover and hone the writing skills of our children. Please reach out to us at therisingstarwritingawards@gmail.com or thewriterscorner2015@gmail.com for your Creative Writing In-person and Virtual Training.

Sincerely,

Uche Udoji

RSWCA Project Coordinator

The Release of the Result of the Rising Star Writing Competition Season 6!

By thewriterscorner | July 20, 2021 | Comments 0 Comment

We are delighted to announce the results of the Rising Star Writing Competition Season 6 to the general public. The theme for this season was Our New World. Interestingly, we received the highest number of entries since the commencement of the competition in 2016: a whopping 1841 entries. We greatly commend schools and individuals that have embarked on this journey with us. Let us also point out that 394 of the entries were disqualified for reasons ranging from being entirely not a creative work to outrightly diverting from the purpose. After a painstaking assessment process, 6 winners emerged in both the primary and secondary categories. Details of the winners have been published on our website and social media pages. It is our tradition to open entries for short stories and poetry categories but we opened only for the short story category this year as we have observed that more children pander towards poetry.

Considering the news of the Covid-19 third wave, the Award Presentation Ceremony will hold separately at the school of each winner: the winners and schools will be duly informed. This measure is inevitable for us to control crowd, abide by Covid-19 protocol, and yet celebrate our winners. Although the entries were quite fantastic, the judges unanimously observed that most of the entries were below the ideal standard of a winning RSWC entry. It is our earnest expectation to receive mind-blowing entries, see African writers bloom; and we would like to use this avenue to encourage literacy teachers to put in more effort in teaching children and building them strong in writing and sustaining rich narratives.

We appreciate everyone and every school that participated this year. We hope, in no distant time, to compile and publish all the winning entries as well as anthology of all the poems by the Writers Corner. The organisers of this competition have the unrestricted rights to publish competition entries in any format at any time and/or be used as promotional material.

We are most grateful to all our sponsors for believing and sharing this vision with us over the years, and working with us to hunt for these young writers in a bid to inspire them and populate the Nigerian community with great writers.

Here are the details of the winners:

PRIMARY CATEGORY

1st Place Winner

Aaliyah Tijani

University of Lagos Staff School

2nd Place Winner

Ikejide Chinaza Anthonia

Ivy Leagues Montessori, Lagos

3rd Place Winner

Ekene Happiness Ebube

Pafic Nursery & Primary School, Lagos

SECONDARY SCHOOL CATEGORY

1st Place Winner

Gabriel Okwundu

Princeton College, Surulere, Lagos

2nd Place Winner

Oluwanifise Adeleye

Livingspring High School, Ajah, Lagos

3rd Place Winner

Ogundare Miracle Flora Schools, Lagos

A hearty congratulations to all the contestants that participated in this competition. You are all winners, and we are proud of you! We should all bear in mind that the goal of this competition, a part of children’s formal education, is to equip them with writing skills, writing tools, efficacy beliefs, and intrinsic interest to empower themselves in a variety of pursuits in writing throughout your lifetime.

We will continue to work with Class Teachers and Literacy Teachers to discover and hone the writing skills of our young ones. Please reach out to us on therisingstarwritingawards@gmail.com or thewriterscorner2015@gmail.com for in-person and virtual creative writing training.

Sincerely

Uche Udoji

RSWCA Project Coordinator

Press Release: Result of Rising Star Writing Competition and Awards Season 5

By Leksmedia Media | July 14, 2020 | Comments 1 comment

We are happy to announce the result of the 5th Edition of The Rising Star Writing Competition themed ‘FREEDOM’. It has been concluded with ten (10) winners emerging in the two categories. The results have also been widely published on our website, www.thewriterscorner.com.ng, conventional and social media organs.

It is the intention of the organizers that the Winning Entries are compiled and published by The Writers Corner, in the Writers Corner Blog and an anthology publications of Poems and Short Stories with credits given to the writers. The organizers will have the unrestricted rights to publish competition entries in any format at any time and/or be used as relevant promotional material.
We appreciate everyone and every school that participated at this period of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Award Presentation Ceremony will hold on different dates and in the individual schools of the students with the winning entries. This is to abide by the social distancing measures and crowd control. Details on how schools can participate in the award event will be shared soon. We had outstanding entries especially in the Primary School Categories but the entries for this year did not produce the standard of short stories to win a RSWC Award in the 1st and 2nd positions in the Secondary School Category. We would like to use this opportunity to encourage teachers to put in more effort in teaching children how to develop short stories.

We remain most grateful to all our sponsors, especially Greenlife Pharmaceutical LTD, for sharing this vision with us over the years and working with us to hunt for these young writers and inspire them to become great writers.

Details of the results show that :

WINNING POSITIONS

PRIMARY CATEGORY

Short Story
1st Position Short Story – Onyeke-Atobore, Zoe
10 Years Old
Year 5
St.Saviours School,Ikoyi, Lagos –

2nd Position Short Story – Chikamara Okpala
9 Years Old
Year 4
Divine Offspring International School, Lagos

3rd Position Short Story – Olaere Demilade
Year 6
The Livingsprings Schools,Awoyaya Lagos

SECONDARY CATEGORY
Short Story

1st Position – Nil

2nd Position – Nil

3rd Position – Ugo-Ogoke, Chukwukanyima
SS3
Marywood Girls College, Ebute Metta Lagos

POETRY
PRIMARY CATEGORY

1st Position Poetry – Morenikejimi Reni Anjorin
10 Years Old
Year 5
St. Saviour’s School Ikoyi Lagos

2nd Position – Kenechukwu Anthony Azuike
10 Years Old
Year 6
Sunnyfields Primary School,Ikeja

3rd Position – Arifeoluwa Benson
11 Years Old
Year 6
St. Saviour’s School, Ikoyi

SECONDARY CATEGORY

1st Position – Modebelu Ikeoluwa
Year 9
Holy Child Girls College, Lagos

2nd Position – Ifeanyi-Obi, Angel
Year 11
Bloombreed Schools, Port Harcourt

3rd Position – Idara, Enang
JSS 2
Redeemer’s International Secondary School, Lagos

We congratulate these children and every other child that participated in this Creative Writing Competition in the face of school closures due to the global pandemic. Well done children for participating you are all winners.
We will continue to work with Class Teachers and Literacy Teachers to discover and hone the writing skills of our children. Please reach out to us on therisingstarwritingawards@gmail.com or thewriterscorner2015@gmail.com for your Creative Writing In-person and Virtual Training.

Sincerely,

Uche Udoji
RSWCA Project Coordinator

RESULT OF 2019 RISING STAR WRITING COMPETITION

By thewriterscorner | August 30, 2019 | Comments 1 comment

We really appreciate all children who entered this competition with their creativity. You all are rising stars in the making.

We also use this opportunity to appreciate our Sponsors for ensuring that winners go home with a memorable and valuable gift.

FOR THE PRIMARY SECTION:

FIRST PLACE WINNERS:

SHORT STORY WRITING ORJI, JAYDEN Year 4. Grange School, Lagos

POETRY. OSAHISI, FORTUNE. Year 6 Corona School Lekki , Lagos.

SECOND PLACE WINNERS

SHORT STORY WRITING ADEIGBE, NIMONI. Year 3 St. Saviours School, Ikoyi, Lagos

POETRY UWANA-ABASI, INYENEOBONG Livingspring School, Awoyaya, Lagos.

THIRD PLACE WINNERS

SHORT STORY WRITING OBI, KAMDI 9 Years old Year 4. Unique Children’s School, Omole Phase 1 , Lagos School, Lagos.

POETRY AKEJU, OLUWAKANYINSOLA Corona School, Ikoyi, Lagos.

FOR THE SECONDARY SCHOOL CATEGORY:

FIRST PLACE WINNERS:

SHORT STORY WRITING ONYEMA, ONYINYE. 12 years old Grange School , Lagos

POETRY GALADIMA, ADZIRA SS2. Louisville Girls’ College Ijbu-Itele, Ogun State

SECOND PLACE WINNERS:

SHORT STORY WRITING ANETOR ,EBHABHA ZORA Louisville Girls’ College, Ijebu-Itelle.

POETRY IJEOMA, YVONNE CHIBUKO JSS 2. Holy Child College, Obalende Lagos.

THIRD PLACE WINNERS:

SHORT STORY WRITING OGONI, FRIEDA. Starville Secondary School, Abuja.

POETRY IDARA, ENANG. 12 Years old. Redeemers’ International Secondary School, Maryland, Lagos.

HONOURARY MENTIONS

These are also outstanding entries worthy of mentioning: These names are in no particular order.

1. SOGBESAN TOLUWANIMI. Flora High School, Year 10, 13 years old

2. JOHNSON OYINDASOLA. Princeton College Surulere, Lagos, Year 9, 14 years old

3.ABRAHAM ELOHO Graceworth School, Lagos

4.OKOLI DAVID. Daystar Schools, Awka Anambra, Pry 4, 9 years old

5.UGO-OGOKE CHUKWUKANYIMA Marywood Girls College, Ebute Meta, Lagos, SS2, 15 years old

6. NATHANIEL CHIMDIUTO UCHEGBUE JECO College, Lagos, JSS3, 12 years old

7. OBIECHE CHIBUIKE EBUBE. Assured Hope Christian College-Ijanikin Lagos

8.VIVICA EZIRIM. KIMBED International School, Agbara, Ogun

9.OKAFOR IFUNANYA- Ivy League Montessori School, Surulere Lagos

10. BAMIDELE VICTOR. Bookers International School, SS1, 13 years old

11. FESTUS TEMIDAYO JOSEPH. Woodland Hills High School, JSS3, 12 years old

12. OKIKE GODSPOWER. Pacific Excellent Nursery and Primary School, Lagos

13. TOLUWANIMI AKINWUNMI. Living springs School, Awoyaya, Lagos.

14. ARIFEOLUWA BENSON. St. Saviour’s School, Ikoyi.

15. ADEBAYO EMMANUELLA. Starville Schools, Abuja.

16. IKOGHODE AMANDA. Holy Child, Obalende, Ikoyi.

We here again, thank Greenlife Pharmaceuticals for believing and working with us since inception to ensure the steady improvement of the literacy standards among schools in Nigeria. We also use this opportunity to thank all the individuals and schools that have participated in this noble competition and encourage more schools especially the government owned schools to come on board. While thanking you for your interest and support, we look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, 25th September 2019 at the Award Ceremony.

Thank you! Sincerely, Uche Udoji. Coordinator RSWCA/CEO The Writers’ Corner. 07062906996