Never Such Innocence Arts and Literary Competition

Deadline: 18 March 2021

Never Such Innocence is a creative project that aims to give children and young people across the world a voice on conflict. The project offers opportunities to reflect on conflict throughout history and today through poetry, art, speech and song.

The Never Such Innocence competition is now open for 2021-2022 in four categories of poetry, arts, speech, song.

KEY RULES

• Entries are divided into the following four age categories: Age 9-11; age 11-14; age 14-16; and age 16-18.
• If you have any special educational needs you would like the judging panel to be aware of please make a note on your entry form.
• All submissions are given a unique entry number to anonymize the judging process. We kindly request that only the title be written on the entry to ensure the submission may be identified and kept anonymous. All other details about the entrant should be confined to the entry form.
• Only one entry to each category per individual or group will be accepted; entrants may enter multiple categories (for example one poem and one piece of art may be entered by the same individual).
• Entries from entrants aged 15 and under must be submitted by an adult (e.g. parent/guardian or teacher) on behalf of the entrant. The adult submitting the competition entry will be required to agree to the Never Such Innocence rules by way of a check-box on the online form or physical entry form. Winners aged 15 and under must obtain parental/guardian consent (if they were entered by a teacher) in order to have their work published.
• The copyright of each entry remains with the author. However, by entering the competition, the author grants Never Such Innocence the right to publish and/or broadcast their work. All work entered into the competition may be broadcast with the entrant’s first initial, age range, school and/or country. Never Such Innocence will endeavor to write to authors for permission to feature their name, age, school name and location alongside the entry in any publication or broadcast before going ahead. Entrants 15 and under, entered by the teacher, will be contacted and require parental consent to have Full Name, Age, School Name, City and/or Country work published.

To apply: Click here

Official site: Click here