PIEAS Literary Society (Pakistan) Writing Competition

01 January 2011
PIEAS Literary Society (Pakistan) Writing Competition
Deadline: 4 January 2011


General Rules and Regulations

* No entry fee is required.
* The contest is open to all the undergraduate and graduate students in PIEAS.
* Topics for each competition will be announced at the time of competition
* Any article having excessive violence, vulgarity or religious extremism determined by the judges, will not be considered.
* Decisions of judges will be final and unchallengeable.
* One can participate in Article writing and Dialogue writing competition at a time or Story writing and Dialogue writing at a time, since Article and Story Writing will run in parallel.
* Article Writing and Story Writing Competition will be in Urdu and English language as separate competitions. Whether Dialogue Writing Competition will only be in Urdu.

Rules for Article Writing

· Initially participants will be given 7 topics for article writing.
· Each participant will have 20 minutes to write outlines of all 7 topics.
· After 20 minutes, 2 out of 7 topics will be selected by draw.
· Participants will be given 10 minutes to fine tune the outlines of 2 topics selected though draw.
· In the end, 1 out of the 2 chosen topics will be selected by draw
· Each participant will have to write a complete article of 500 to 700 words on the final topic within 40 minutes.

Rules for Story Writing

· One outline will be given to participants.
· Lead of the story will be provided.
· Participants will have to complete the story within 50 minutes.

Rules for Dialogue Writing

· 3 scenarios will be given to participants.
· Scenarios will be in Urdu language.
· Participants will be given 15 minutes for each scenario.
· Participants will have to write Urdu dialogues on all of the three scenarios
· A dialogue should not exceed 8 switches.

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