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Think you're creative?

Author of the Week, or commonly known as AOTW, is a weekly article where you can showcase your word game skills by taking part in a number of fun literacy games based around a theme to win diamonds and badges! 

You can join us bi-weekly to show off your best creative writing for everyone to read and enjoy. There will be different prompt options for storytelling and poetry, which will be explained each time in the theme section of the article.

No copying work from other sources (i.e. online stories, books etc).

Your submission must follow the theme.

All short stories must be approximately 100 to 1000 words.

Only the user who submitted will receive the prize.

Only submit via Google Doc links. 

You must not use ChatGPT or any other AI.

Keep your submission Safe for Work (SFW). 

Only your first entry to any segment will be accepted.

NOTE: Breaking any rule can easily result in disqualification without hesitation and more rules may be added in the future without warning if necessary. 

Here’s our winners from our previous article, congratulations to these users!

In instances where there were more than one winner, a random name generator was used.

Contact one of your AOTW Hosts in game for your prizes!

The theme for this week is…

You Day

Write a short story/poem with a You Day theme.

Everything really is all about you. You have been bestowed with that task (or pleasure?) of organising your perfect day! Write up

a short story/poem detailing what that would involve, who would join you and every special intricacy along the way that brings us

along your 24 hours of delight.

If you need some ideas here are a couple of prompts to get you started:

- The sporting event of the century and you have prime viewing - and if you're hungry? The greatest chefs at hand to cook up your favourite meal.

- Peace at least. The place to yourself, a fire on the logs, your favourite book to hand and not a responsibility to think of. What could be better?

- Wake up, whiskey. Bellini with breakfast. Lashing at lunch. The bar crawl you'll certainly remember nothing of by morning, but retold forever!

These are only prompts - be as creative as you like!

Submissions for each section are completed on the same form (at the end of the article). 

If you don’t want to take part in any section, simply don’t answer the questions! 

These prizes are only available for the Written Submission section.

You will need to contact AOTW hosts for ANY badge you win.

You have 30 days from when the article is published to collect any badges.
Diamonds & Credits are given once the article is published.

Welcome to Unscramble!

Players need to attempt to unscramble the letters to form the correct word. 

There will be 5 words in total to solve! 

- occnpiauor

- sugmyinam

- adroetdno

- mytess

- nredin

Submissions for each game are completed on the same form (at the end of the article). 

If you don’t want to take part in any section, simply don’t answer the questions! 

Winners will receive 100 diamonds and an exclusive badge, these are automatically given!

Welcome to Word Search!

The aim of the game is to find 10 words from the grid related to our theme!

There’s only 1 rule for you to follow, please use YELLOW highlighter to show the words. 

Once done, upload it to IMGUR and submit!

Click here to view the image in full!

Submissions for each game are completed on the same form (at the end of the article). 

If you don’t want to take part in any section, simply don’t answer the questions! 

Winners will receive 100 diamonds and an exclusive badge, these are automatically given!

Please make sure to submit by:

TUESDAY 20TH MAY - 6:00PM GMT

See you next week!

prat & Paige

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