Submissions open for interschool creative writing contest

Learner Circle, an planetary edtech platform, has announced ‘Writathon 5.0’, an interschool originative penning contention to observe Chennai’s young writers and link them to a worldwide assemblage of young authors.

Open to students aged 8 to 18, it invites entries successful poetry, abbreviated story, and novella categories until 20 November, 2025. Winners volition person a PlayStation 5, iPad, and Hoverboard, with their works launched astatine the 49^th Chennai Book Fair. “When children spot their stories printed arsenic books, thing shifts — they statesman to judge that their ideas tin travel, and that content stays with them for life,” says Anuradha Venkatachalam, co-founder and COO of Learner Circle. Selected participants tin besides people done Learner Circle’s Young Authors Program. Participation is free; schools successful the metropolis tin registry astatine https://wr8.ai/writathon