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Wanna join the BBC Blast Youth Panel?
Posted by groupthing on 12 Feb 2010
Blast is on the hunt for 10 vocal young people aged 13-19 to join our nationwide Youth Panel. We're looking for people who are creative, motivated, full of fresh ideas and crucially, not afraid to speak up and represent the voices of other young people from their region of the UK.
They're also looking for young people aged 18-24 to work for two months in TV, radio or online as part of their Creative Traineeships program, which sounds great too. Click on through to apply - good luck!
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Win a comic book workshop!
Posted by groupthing on 04 Feb 2010
The fine folks at Walker Books are running a neat new competition for illustrators based on their awesome graphic novel, "Salem Brownstone: All Along The Watchtower" by John Harris Dunning and Nikhil Singh. You can win a signed copy of the book, have your artwork featured online and get your own comic workshop with John, the book's artist.
All you have to do is draw your own interpretation of a character from the Salem Brownstone book by April 1st. The full details of the competition, including where to submit your entry, are after the jump. Also, this review of the book from Forbidden Planet is definitely worth checking out, and includes some more of the awesome artwork from the book.
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Enter The Young Muslim Writers Awards...
Posted by groupthing on 05 Feb 2010
The Young Muslim Writers Awards is (you might be able to guess) a competition for young Muslim writers in the UK! They're looking for submissions of either short stories or poetry, and the deadline is soon - February 26th. There are three different age groups, although the upper age limit is 16, and the word limit is 3,000 words (either for one story or up to three poems together.)
If you or someone you know is up for the challenge, visit the YMWA website to find out more and submit your entry. Good luck and happy writing...
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Join the Orange Prize Youth Panel!
Posted by groupthing on 26 Jan 2010
The Orange Prize has been going on for almost 15 years now, picking the best books written by women each year. To celebrate their 15th birthday, they're looking for six young people (aged 16-20) to judge the previous fourteen prize-winning books and choose the best among them - the Winner of Winners, if you like.
So, a pretty cool opportunity - you'll get to see what goes into judging a major prize, wield some awesome power and blog about your experiences too. To apply, you'll need to submit three reviews of books you've read, and the deadline is January 31st, so get cracking! The application page is here, over at Spinebreakers. Good luck!
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Teenage Kicks at Random House
Posted by groupthing on 26 Jan 2010
Young people from Crawley HeadSpace helped organise the Teenage Kicks event for Random House last week.comment (1 so far)
Classic of the Month - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Posted by groupthing on 23 Sep 2009
Have you read Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray? This classic tale of a beautiful but headonistic young man whose portrait ages whilst he remains youthful is groupthing's classic of the month.
Dorian Gray - the new film adaption of the book - hit the big screens this month. If you've already seen it, we're interested to know what you thought. How does it compare to the book? Do you think it does it justice?
And for those who haven't seen it yet, here's a sneak peak...
Dorian Gray - the new film adaption of the book - hit the big screens this month. If you've already seen it, we're interested to know what you thought. How does it compare to the book? Do you think it does it justice?
And for those who haven't seen it yet, here's a sneak peak...
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Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009 - shortlist announced
Posted by groupthing on 22 Sep 2009
The shortlist for this year's Booktrust Teenage Prize, which celebrates the best comptemporary writing for teenagers, has been announced.
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