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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.

Curious? Here’s our winners from our previous article!

Thank you to everyone who submitted their stories/poems! 

We encourage you to submit again even if you didn’t win this time. 

Last week’s theme was: You Day! 

Congratulations to the winners of the written submission!
1st

Dooni

Click the user above to view their submission.

See our previous article here for prizes!

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. 

The theme for this week is…

TECHNOLOGIC

Welcome to Crosswords!

Hidden within the grid are 8 THEME related words for you to find and fill in!

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!

Welcome to Fictionary!

 Players will be presented with a series of real words in which they are tasked to come up with their own fictional meaning. Participants will be graded on their ability to be original, clever and humorous! 

- Smartwatch

-Download

-Universal Remote

-Streaming

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 Spelling Bee!

Players are presented with a list of 7 letters, your task is to extract the most 5+ letter words from the grid that you can! 

Every word must contain the highlighted letter. Every letter can be used more than once. 

Happy spelling!  

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 29 APRIL 2025 ~ 6PM GMT

See you next week!

prat & Paige

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