Nestlé Write Around Australia records

fonds

1993-2005

Textual Records, Ephemera, Clippings, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Moving Images

9638585

14.72 metres of textual material (92 boxes)
1 videocassette - VHS

‘Nestlé Write Around Australia’ was a program that encouraged creative writing among primary school students across Australia. The program was available to students in year 5 and 6 in New South Wales, ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Northern Territory, and to students in year 6 and 7 in Queensland and Western Australia.

Coordinated by the State Library of New South Wales, the program was hosted and supported by state and public libraries in metropolitan and regional zones throughout the country.

To enter the program, students wrote a 500-word original story and submitted it for evaluation to a judging panel in their respective zone. Per zone, 20 finalists (10 from each year) were selected. The finalists were invited to take part in a creative writing workshop led by a well-known Australian children's book author. Afterwards, finalists got the opportunity to revise their story or write a new one for a second round of judging, from which winners were selected at zone, state/territory, and national level. Altogether, there were 20 finalists per zone, 2 winners per zone, 2 winners per state/territory and 2 national winners (1 from each school year). The stories of the sixteen state/territory winners, including the two national winners, were published in a story collection.

References:
Nestlé Australia. Nestlé Write Around Australia Finalists' Stories. Sydney: Nestlé Australia, 1994-1998

Nestlé Australia. Nestlé Write Around Australia Finalists' Stories. Sydney: Nestlé Australia, 1999-2005

Compiled from the Library’s acquisition file

The State Library of New South Wales acted as coordinating institution in the Nestlé Write Around Australia program.

'Nestlé Write Around Australia' program: competition entries, reports and promotional material.

SERIES 01:
Nestlé Write Around Australia competition entries 1994

SERIES 02:
Nestlé Write Around Australia competition entries 1995

SERIES 03:
Nestlé Write Around Australia competition entries 1996

SERIES 04:
Nestlé Write Around Australia competition entries 1997

SERIES 05:
Nestlé Write Around Australia competition entries 1998

SERIES 06:
Nestlé Write Around Australia competition entries 1999

SERIES 07:
Nestlé Write Around Australia story compilations 1996-1999

SERIES 08:
Nestlé Write Around Australia competition entries 2000

SERIES 09:
Nestlé Write Around Australia competition entries 2001

SERIES 10:
Nestlé Write Around Australia competition entries 2002

SERIES 11:
Nestlé Write Around Australia competition entries 2003

SERIES 12:
Nestlé Write Around Australia story compilations 2000-2003

SERIES 13:
Nestlé Write Around Australia competition entries 2004

SERIES 14:
Nestlé Write Around Australia competition entries 2005

SERIES 15:
Series 15: Nestlé Write Around Australia story compilations, reports and photographs 1996-2005

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder.

Also see related material at MLMSS 11920 'Nestlé Write Around Australia competition entries Tasmania, 1999-2000'