G’day high school students,
Manning Clark House is a cultural and scholarly centre in Canberra.
Each year we have a Weekend of Ideas. This year the theme is Fair suck of the sauce bottle: a celebration of Australian language.
In conjunction we are running a competition:
BE A JOURNO FOR A DAY
All you have to do is write a newspaper column of 700-750 words on the topic of Australian language. It can be playful, earnest, whatever you like.
First prize: $350 and your column will be published in the Canberra Times
Second prize: $100
Third prize: $50
The twelve short-listed entries will win a place at a writers’ course to be conducted by John Harms.
Send your entry to [email protected] clearly stating your name, age, school and a contact phone number.
Entries close on March 12.
For more information email [email protected]
So get stuck into it.
About John Harms
JTH is a writer, publisher, speaker, historian. He is publisher and contributing editor of The Footy Almanac and footyalmanac.com.au. He has written columns and features for numerous publications. His books include Confessions of a Thirteenth Man, Memoirs of a Mug Punter, Loose Men Everywhere, Play On, The Pearl: Steve Renouf's Story and Life As I Know It (with Michelle Payne). He appears (appeared?) on ABCTV's Offsiders. He can be contacted [email protected] He is married to The Handicapper and has three school-age kids - Theo, Anna, Evie. He might not be the worst putter in the world but he's in the worst four. His ambition was to lunch for Australia but it clashed with his other ambition - to shoot his age.
I really want to have a crack at this, but I just don’t know what to write about..
Josh
It’s up to you.
Anything to do with Australian language is fine – Australian words and phrases etc. Whatever you like. Can be good fun, or serious, whatever you like.
Same, Josh.
Is it compulsory to have 700-750 words in this essay? I’ve only got 477, and i’m absolutely out of ideas.
Josh, you might want to check with JTH directly, but I imagine it wouldn’t be a huge problem.
High school students? Crikey, I can’t even remember that far back.