One City One Book Hong Kong x Hong Kong International Young Reader Festival - Creative Writing Competition
Updates: Submission closed. Winners will be announced by the Festival's on 15th May.


時間和地點 Time & Location
Mar 01, 2019, 6:00 PM – May 15, 2019, 10:00 PM
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
活動詳情 About the Event
Creative Writing Competition hosted in partnership with Hong Kong International Young Reader Festival (YRF) (organized by Hong Kong International Literary Festival) is now open to all secondary school students!
Shaun Tan's award-winning work THE ARRIVAL has been chosen as the book of the year for 2019. Tan is a Chinese-Australian author, illustrator, and artist, and THE ARRIVAL is a wordless graphic novel that focuses on immigration. Students are invited to write a short story based on the illustration from THE ARRIVAL. Each entry should be between 800-1000 words.
Winning entries, selected by Hong Kong Battle of the Books author Jack Cheng, will be published online, and the winners will receive signed copies of his remarkable debut novel SEE YOU IN THE COSMOS as well as a copy of THE ARRIVAL.
Short stories should be sent to submissions@festival.org.hk by 15th April 2019. Please include the applicant's full name, age, school, and…