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[quote=Anonymous]I'm 17:51 above -- responding to the post at 1:00 about writing contests for kids and also to the post about the Duke program:

Before contests, consider having your child do some writing workshops or even just sharing writing with a teacher or adult or some friends, so others can read and talk about your kid's writing. Contests are fine but just non-competitively sharing writing with others is a good start. Contests generally are not going to give your child much feedback on the content but workshops and writing groups can do that. Nothing against contests (as you'll see below) but they are not necessarily a way for a kid to get much detailed feedback on a piece of writing.

Does your school PTA or PTSA sponsor the Reflections arts contest? It has a literature category (fiction, poetry, essays, scripts, etc.) and is open to grades K-12 but your school PTA must have a program to which your child can submit. Reflections is a great contest that is well known in many schools and other schools just don't have it at all because no adult has stepped forward to run it at the local school level.

Interested? www.pta.org/reflections

Then ask your school PTA if there is Reflections at your school. If there isn't -- consider being the parent who volunteers to run it. I've run it for years at several schools and it's frankly fairly easy to do.

Scholastic is the other arts contest many parents know. Your kid submits online directly to Scholastic, I think, but I would check this with the school too.

Re: the Duke program -- just to clarify, I mentioned the GMU writing workshops; unlike Duke they do not require any standardized testing scores for admission, just a very simple form and short writing samples. Just noting the difference.
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