Spooky Story Writing Contest

Contest Description

Spooky Story Writing Contest

Participate and win prizes by writing ghost stories. The contest is as follows: Write a spooky story in English with a maximum word limit of 10,000 words. Please submit your entry to us in PDF, TXT, DOC file. If you are writing on paper, you can take a picture of your writing and send to us a JPEG, PNG or PDF file. The contest is open to children around the world, anyone under the age of 13 years is eligible to participate in this contest. You can participate as an individual, or as a group or the entire class - Use only single submission if you are participating in groups. You can receive help from your parents, teachers or adults in finishing the book provided you handle most of the work. Please register as a student on Baalroom.com to participate in this contest. You will need to upload a signed privacy policy from your parents or legal guardians to upload documents.

How to create account and use Baalroom

  • Click on Sign Up in the navigation bar on the top right corner. On the next screen, choose Student and enter your username/password and email.
  • An activation email would be sent to your email address. Please click on it and you will be on My Account page.
  • A privacy policy document is the first thing you will see on the My Account page. Please download this document, ask your parents or legal guardians to sign it. Step 2, upload the signed privacy policy document.
  • The privacy policy document needs to be signed and uploaded only ONCE
  • Each time you login, you will be in the My Account section. My Account section shows My Profile, My Schools, My Courses, My Books, My Files etc. This is where you will see all documents, text, QAs, audio, video etc. uploaded by you.

How the Contest Works

  • Write a spooky story in English with a word limit of 10,000 words.
  • Submit your entry in PDF, TXT, DOC file. If you are writing on paper, please use clear and legible handwriting, take a picture of your writing and send your entry in JPEG, PNG or PDF format.
  • Maximum file size is 20 MB. Maximum of 3 entries per account are accepted

Prize

We would contact you by email if you are the winning entry. Our jury consists of Ana Mukoska and Emili Sapundzija. The jury will select the best story for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place; The 1st place story will get 100 $, 2nd place story will get 50 $ and 3rd place story will get 25 $.

Who Can Participate?

Children from anywhere in the world, age from 4 to 13.

Terms and Conditions

All the entries submitted would be available on Baalroom.com as set by Terms of Use. If you want your entry to be removed for any reason, please let us know by email at [email protected]. The name of the winning entry and the name of the winning student would be mentioned on the contest page. We would contact the winning entries by email ( The email with which your student account was created ). The prize money for winning entries would be sent by PayPal or by International Bank Draft or Bank Transfer. If you are the winner, we will contact you to verify your age and ask for additional details including address or Bank information for transferring prize money.

Deadline

30 November 2022. The winners would be declared on 2 December 2022. The results will now be declared on 15 December 2022. We are sorry for the delay.

Thank you all for participating and making this contest a great success.

Our judges had a hard time to decide the winners - There were so many great stories to choose from. We will put our reasons for choosing the following entries as the winners on the website soon.

Winners

1st Prize

2nd Prize

3rd Prize


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