What would your dream island look like?

Tuesday 21 April 2020

Gulliver, Odysseus and Robinson Crusoe are just some of the famous characters who found themselves washed up on a strange, unknown island...now young islanders are being invited to dream up their own fictional land in a new competition.

The #myland competition, which is run by the Jersey Festival of Words, is open to ‘Jersey-based creatives’ aged 8–17.

Entrants should submit a piece of written work that brings their fictional island – complete with its own inhabitants, buildings, laws and histories – to life.

Drawings, photos of models, and other supporting artwork are also encouraged to help impress the judges.

Each age category winner will receive £40 in book tokens and have their work featured on the Jersey Festival of Words website.

Pictured: The winning desert island writers will receive £40 in book tokens. 

Entrants aged 8 to 11 should submit 150-250 words, ages 12 to 14 should submit 200-300, and 15 to 17-year-olds are asked to prepare 250 to 500.

All submissions should be emailed to info@jerseyfestivalofwords.org by midnight April 30th (by an adult if the entrant is under 16).

A couple of sentence starters if you need a nudge...

"As I stumbled up from the sea and on to the beach, I couldn't quite believe what lay before me..."

"I must have lain there on the beach for hours as the tide slowly went out. Nothing could have prepared me for what I found upon awakening..."