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The Golden Point Award is Singapore’s premier creative writing competition in the nation’s four official languages: English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil. Established by the National Arts Council in 1993, the national literary writing competition is a significant platform for discovering new writers whose works exhibit literary merit and encourage literary expression in Singapore. The competition consists of the following three genre categories:

Golden Point Award 2023 is organised by Arts House Limited , in partnership with Singapore Book Council and supported by the National Arts Council .

金笔奖是新加坡最高荣誉的创意写作比赛,接受四种官方语文参赛作品:英文、华文、马来文与淡米尔文。这项由国家艺术理事会于1993年首办的比赛,是发掘写作新人的重要平台。比赛鼓励写作人以文学文字表述,凡展现文字风采,能留下文学价值的作品,都是金笔奖极力推荐表扬的。比赛涵盖下列三组别,包括今年特别增设的短篇小说译作组别(英文):

2023年金笔奖由 艺苑公司 主办, 新加坡书籍理事会 联办,并获 国家艺术理事会 的支持。

Anugerah Pena Emas ialah sayembara penulisan kreatif yang terulung di Singapura dan diadakan dalam keempat-empat bahasa rasmi negara: Inggeris, Cina, Melayu dan Tamil. Ditubuhkan oleh Majlis Seni Kebangsaan pada 1993, sayembara penulisan kreatif di peringkat nasional ini ialah wadah penting untuk mencungkil penulis baharu yang menghasilkan karya kesusasteraan bermutu tinggi dan menggalakkan ekspresi kreatif di Singapura. Sayembara ini terdiri daripada tiga kategori genre berikut:

Anugerah Pena Emas 2023 dianjurkan oleh Arts House Limited , dengan usaha sama Majlis Buku Singapura dan disokong oleh Majlis Seni Kebangsaan .

Anugerah Pena Emas ialah sayembara penulisan kreatif yang terulung di Singapura dan diadakan dalam keempat-empat bahasa rasmi negara: Inggeris, Cina, Melayu dan Tamil. Ditubuhkan oleh Majlis Seni Kebangsaan pada 1993, sayembara penulisan kreatif di peringkat nasional ini ialah wadah penting untuk mencungkil penulis baharu yang menghasilkan karya kesusasteraan bermutu tinggi dan menggalakkan ekspresi kreatif di Singapura. Sayembara ini terdiri daripada tiga kategori genre berikut:

தங்க முனை விருது, ஆங்கிலம், சீனம், மலாய், தமிழ் ஆகிய சிங்கப்பூரின் நான்கு அதிகாரப்பூர்வ மொழிகளில் நடத்தப்படும் முதன்மை படைப்பெழுத்துப் போட்டி. 1993-ஆம் ஆண்டு தேசிய கலை மன்றத்தால் நிறுவப்பட்ட இப்போட்டி, சிங்கப்பூரில் இலக்கிய தரம் வாய்ந்த புது எழுத்தாளர்களைக் கண்டறிந்து ஊக்குவிக்கும் முக்கிய தளமாக அமைகிறது. இப்போட்டியில் மூன்று இலக்கிய வகைமைப் பிரிவுகள் உள்ளன:

தங்க முனை விருது 2023 ஆர்ட்ஸ் ஹவுஸ் லிமிட்டெட் நிறுவனத்தின் ஏற்பாட்டில், சிங்கப்பூர் புத்தக மன்றத்துடன் இணைந்து தேசிய கலை மன்றத்தின் ஆதரவில் நடத்தப்படுகிறது.

2023 Golden Point Award – Poetry Winners

金笔奖2023诗歌组得奖者, anugerah pena emas 2023 – pemenang kategori puisi, 2023 தங்க முனை விருது – கவிதைப் பிரிவு வெற்றியாளர்கள், 2023 golden point award – short story winners, 金笔奖2023短篇小说组得奖者, anugerah pena emas 2023 – pemenang kategori cerpen, 2023 தங்க முனை விருது – சிறுகதைப் பிரிவு வெற்றியாளர்கள், 2023 golden point award – translation: short story (english) winners, 金笔奖2023短篇小说译作组(英文)得奖者, anugerah pena emas 2023 – pemenang kategori puisi (bahasa inggeris), 2023 தங்க முனை விருது –மொழிபெயர்ப்பு: சிறுகதை (ஆங்கிலம்) பிரிவு வெற்றியாளர்கள்.

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Established by the National Arts Council in 1993, the Golden Point Award is Singapore's premier creative writing competition for short story and poetry. It accepts entries in the nation's four major languages – English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil – and aims to develop the literary penmanship of writers in Singapore.

Short Story (English) – 2nd Prize

Joseph Tan Soon Teck MA Creative Writing, Class of 2024

Short Story (English) – Honourable Mention

Sarah Soh MA Creative Writing, Class of 2022

Chen Cuifen MA Creative Writing, Class of 2021

Entry: The Funnies

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Primary Creative Writing Competition - The Future

Our  primary students explored the topic of the future in our first primary creative writing competition. here are the winning entries along with their teacher's comments. , winning entry by gregory, primary 3.

‘Hoot! Hoot!  The hooting of the owls broke the eerie silence of the night.  A snail sitting on a green lily pad in the calm blue pond in the deep dark woods kept gazing at the bright glittering stars.  He wondered to himself, “Those stars are hanging safely in the sky.  Hey!  What if, in the future, all snails can evacuate and live in the embrace of the stars, safe from our mortal enemy, the cruel owl.  Just yesterday, my poor Aunt met her tragic end, in the clutches of the owl.  Oh, how I hate the owl!”

Just then, a brilliantly silly idea flashed into its puny brain! “In the future, what if the snails in the stars come and pick me up?  What will they be travelling in?”

At that moment, the silly mollusc saw two bright yellow headlamps and a pointed entrance.  As snails aren’t known for their intelligence, the snail thought, “Wow! My future just came two-thousand years earlier!”  The closer the vessel came, the wider the entrance got.  The snail quickly crawled towards the vessel, shouting, “Safe stars, here I come!”  It boarded the vessel…and met its future.

“Hoot!  Hoot!”  The satisfying hooting of an owl broke the eerie silence of the night.  

Teacher's Comments

I love how Gregory Ng has been able to create such a memorable character in his story of a snail dreaming of salvation from this world.  I love this snail!  He whimsically imagines a future safe from his arch nemesis, the owl, in comical musings that are cut abruptly with interjections.

“He wondered to himself, ‘Those stars are hanging safely in the sky.  Hey!  What if, in the future, all snails can evacuate and live in the embrace of the stars, safe from our mortal enemy, the cruel owl.’”

The way he poetically delivers his thoughts (“hanging in the sky” / “embrace of the stars”) portrays a thoughtful and sensitive snail with his head always in the sky.

But he is, at heart, quite a stupid snail too.  The narrator tells us “a brilliantly silly idea flashed into its puny brain!”  This serves as a wonderfully funny line but is also a great lead up to the proof of his stupidity in the story. Seeing “two bright yellow headlamps” coming towards him, he gloriously revels in his salvation, thinking his “future” has come early.  He fails to be cautious, and this complete lack of awareness of the real world is his undoing, as we are left pondering if he actually did meet his destiny.

Yes, you may argue that it is unclear as to what future he met.  Was it actually a snail spaceship to save him?  Was it a car zooming towards him?  Or was it an owl swooping down to eat him?  The “pointed entrance” and the cyclical ending, changed slightly with the owl giving a “satisfying” hoots, points more to him meeting his demise by owl.

However that is the story’s success.  It is whacky, zany, and arcane.  It has a powerful grasp of characterisation and boasts great creativity in imagining a future through a snail’s eyes.

I can’t get the image of the snail out of my head.  Its hopeful and enlightened face.  Its little snail arms stretched out in rhapsody.  Its tiny heart bursting with elation.  All just before he meets its future.  Now, that’s a great way to go!

Runner-up entry - A Modern World by Jovin, Primary 5

It’s the year 2050, A.K.A. the future. It’s not really the future, but my parents told me the people in the past call this year that (the future).  So I just stick to it.

You would probably think of megacities, driverless cars and… but there’s actually more to it!  Well I won’t be listing down all of the new modern works because you would think it’s boring and probably fall asleep while you are reading this.  So I’ll just give an overview of them in my daily life.

\As usual I walked out of school and waited for my parents to pick me up.  You might feel like it’s boring as this is what most of our parents do, but trust me!  You are about to reach the exciting bit now!

“Hey Dad…” I said as I sat down and switched on my new digital videogame.  You are probably wondering what I meant by a digital videogame.  It’s kinda like this thin transparent sheet of glass floating in mid-air showing a videogame that you can play, except that you can touch through it.

Anyways, I reached home after a few minutes or so as my father and I walked through out glass door, my robot dog “Oreo” greeted us.  Yes, I said “walked through out glass door”, not literally.  My parents installed this door system where it needs your thumb print in order for you to sort of walk through the door.

Oh yes! I can’t forget to mention about my robot dog “Oreo”.  On my seventh birthday my Aunt had bought me it.  Since “Oreo” is just a robot I don’t have to spend my allowance on dog food and all the necessities, and the best thing is that you do not have to change the batteries!

“Lunch is ready!”  Mom said as she placed plates of food on a tray.

The tray soon levitated and flew in the direction of the dining table, cool right? It’s like an invisible waitress serving you your food!

Now this is what I call a modern world!

This short tale of a day in the life of a girl in the future is very conversational and relaxed in tone as it rejects describing the world of the future through the more common wider scope of the city and society.

“You would probably think of megacities, driverless cars and… but there’s actually more to it!”

Instead it opts for a more limited scope; a scaled down personal vision of the girls future.  Her new video game, robot dog and newly installed glass doors.  It’s an honest reflection that what is more important in a girl’s life isn’t how the world she lives in works, but how her dinner plate floats towards her “like an invisible waitress serving your own food!”

Jovin ties all these observations together with a tongue-in-cheek style as she self-referentially tells you how she is going to deliver her story, keeping the reader comically in mind at all times.

“… and waited for my parents to pick me up.  You might feel like it’s boring as this is what most of our parents do.  But trust me!  You are about to reach the exciting bit now!”

Nicely done if you ask me, making this anything but a boring story.  Her enthusiasm of the things around her makes up for her choice not to have a narrative.

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Write for Kindness (WFK) is a national creative writing competition organised by the Singapore Kindness Movement, with the Singapore Book Council as programme partner. WFK is a platform for students to promote kindness to young children by creating age-appropriate and culturally relevant children’s stories through short stories, poetry, songs and illustrations.

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Students will learn the value of kindness through stories and poems and the importance of teamwork, as well as the importance of using stories and poems to positively impact young children in their character development. They will also see stories and poetry as creative means of expressing cultural values.

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We are pleased to announce the results of the 5th national english writing competition (new-c), where 39 primary schools in singapore nominated over a hundred of their best students to represent them., after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, we are glad to see that our students have kept up their standards of writing. in particular, we are heartened by the quality of this year’s category 2 participants. the top three entries chose 3 very different topics, themes and styles, showcasing the diversity among our young writers. among them, we have an imaginative tale of a banyan tree tackling the very mature topic of one’s roots, an orphan struggling between his fractured past and future fears, and childhood friendship broken, repaired and strengthened through a wall., in category 1, although more than half of the participants chose “lost” as their topic, resulting in intense competition, several stories stood out for their technical excellence, or creative interpretation. over the course of judging, we found each story, winner or not, a worthy work in its own right, and a beacon of hope for the future of singapore’s literature., here, let us celebrate our boys and girls who stood out for their creativity, skill and finesse in crafting engaging and entertaining stories:, 2022 category 1 (primary 3 & 4) winners, sofie shao yuting, tampines primary school, tan hui en stefanie, gongshang primary school, li wantong zoe, edgefield primary school, ruah lim, pei chun public school, matthew cameron toon, st. joseph’s institution junior, lim yichen walter @ thant lin, townsville primary school, chua si qi hazel, unity primary school, theng zi xin adele, zhonghua primary school, 2022 category 2 (primary 5 & 6) winners, 1 st prize (tied), wong yuzi germaine, alexandra primary school, li sixuan, gongshang primary school, roanne wong, kuo chuan presbyterian primary school, lucas kong, anderson primary school, teh antheia, bukit panjang primary school, tan fu jun, casuarina primary school, bhagwat kimaya kishor, opera estate primary school, leia ng, rosyth school.

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The Golden Point Award is Singapore’s premier creative writing competition in the nation’s four official languages: English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil. Established by the National Arts Council in 1993, the national literary writing competition is a significant platform for discovering new writers whose works exhibit literary merit and encourage literary expression in Singapore.

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Our theme this year celebrates one of our nation’s greatest strengths: the harmony and cohesion of our multi-faceted society – and recognises it among our greatest responsibilities to uphold.

Over the past few decades, we have successfully built a home in which disparate communities can live as equals supported by the law - regardless of race, language or religion.

Today, in the midst of social strife and racial conflict, as well as new economic and geo-political challenges, can our unity in diversity stand the test of time?

What else can we do to weave our social fabric more tightly together? How can we ensure our society remains strong enough to weather any future storm? And how will we surpass and soar above the social harmony most of us enjoy today?

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- By entering into this competition, the participant(s) verifies that the work submitted is not plagiarised and does not infringe the copyright and intellectual property right of any person or organisation.

- By entering into this competition, the participant(s) agree that the organisers have free usage of the submitted works for the competition's publicity purposes and future events.

- Participants are encouraged to use the Creative Commons License (https://creativecommons.org/choose/) for all work submitted.

- The judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

- Any dialogue or text shown within the submission that is not in English, should have annotations/subtitles in English.

- Individual and group participants under the age of 16 years old will be required to obtain their parent's or guardian's consent to take part in the competition. The following details will be required when filling in the online submission form:

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How to submit: - Upload your PDF file directly via the online registration form

What can I submit:  - The essay can be supported by pictures. - Length of essay is limited to 2,500 words.

What are some guidelines I need to take note of: - Accepted file format is Adobe PDF - Total maximum file size is 1GB. - You are required to submit a short explanation about your work in less than 750 characters during the online submission.

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How to submit: - Upload your file to wetransfer ( https://wetransfer.com/ ) and a download link will be generated.  - Please submit the download link via the online registration form . - Click  here  for step-by-step guide on how to get a wetransfer download link.

What can I submit: - A single artwork or up to a series of 5 related images in JPEG format

What are some guidelines I need to take note: - Accepted file format is JPEG - Maximum resolution 300dpi - Total maximum file size is 1GB. - You are required to submit a short explanation about your work in less than 750 characters during the online submission.

DYNAMIC PRESENTATION -  ANIMATION & VIDEO SUBMISSION

What can I submit: - Video files should be in HD (1920 x 1080) and .mp4 format, no longer than 3 minutes in length.

What are some guidelines I need to take note: - Any dialogue or text shown within the animation/video that is not in English, should have subtitles in English.  - Total maximum file size is 1GB. There must be no mention of group name or logo in the submission. - You are required to submit a short explanation about your work in less than 750 characters during the online submission.

More information will be furnished on the exact prizes at a later date.

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Q: I want to take part with some friends, can I do so? A: Yes, definitely! Submissions can be made by up to a group of 6 participants. Please select group submission during online submission.

Q: When is the submission deadline? A: Please submit by 21 July 2023, 17:00Hrs (UTC+8). Entries received after this date and time will not be eligible.

Q: Can I submit multiple entries? A: Yes. However, they should be different in content. Do give different titles to each separate entry to avoid confusion.

Q: I would like to make some changes to my entry and the competition is still open. Can I re-submit? A: Yes. There is a question within the submission form asking" Is this a re-submission?". Please select Yes. 

Q: My video submission has some dialogue in a language other than English. Will I be disqualified? A: The primary language for the competition is English. If other languages are used, English subtitles are required.

For all enquiries regarding the competition, please send your queries to: 

     [email protected]

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