{"id":1293,"date":"2010-02-19T11:18:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T03:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2010-08-11T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T04:00:12","slug":"science-chronicles-sci-fi-writing-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/science-chronicles-sci-fi-writing-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Chronicles: Sci-Fi writing competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1151\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/28\/young-writers-seminar-and-a-submission\/theliterary\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,80\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"theliterary\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1151\" title=\"theliterary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary-300x60.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hullo, hullo indeed! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihpc-outreach.sg\/sciencechronicles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Science Chronicles 2010<\/a> is a science fiction writing competition! Only thing is that it&#8217;s not for everyone but more for students. Nonetheless, if you&#8217;re 18 and under and currently in Singapore, check it out! <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Oh, currently it says nothing about poly students but we&#8217;ll see since I hit them up with a question on that.<\/span> <strong>Deadline is 11 April 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s 2 categories for students to be exact. They are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Category A:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Secondary 3 and 4 students<\/li>\n<li>IP schools year 3 and 4 students<\/li>\n<li>15-16 years of age international students studying in Singapore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Category B:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Junior College 1 and 2 students<\/li>\n<li>IP schools year 5 and 6 students<\/li>\n<li>17-18 years of age international students studying in Singapore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the brief rules\/outlines. For more details check their website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihpc-outreach.sg\/sciencechronicles\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT: Polytechnic students are qualified to enter this! They replied to me via email so just make sure which age category you&#8217;re in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Essays must be:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Typed in English<\/li>\n<li> Font type: Arial<\/li>\n<li> Font size: 12 point<\/li>\n<li> 1.5 line spacing<\/li>\n<li> 1 inch margin on all sides and A4 page setting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Administrative Procedures<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Do not write your name on any part of the manuscript, other than on the cover page.<\/li>\n<li> Online submissions will be made available from 5 February 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Have a separate cover page for your name, title of your essay and name of school.<\/li>\n<li>Write the title of your essay at the top right hand corner of each page of your manuscript.<\/li>\n<li>State the total number of words written at the end of your manuscript.<\/li>\n<li>Number each page of your manuscript.<\/li>\n<li>Complete the on-line entry registration fields during submission of manuscript.<\/li>\n<li>Attach your manuscript in either Word Document or a PDF copy of Word Document.<\/li>\n<li>Each entry should have between 1,500 words to a maximum of 3,000 words.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"overflow: hidden; position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 308px; width: 1px; height: 1px;\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">Essays must be:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"7\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/td>\n<td>Typed in English<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/td>\n<td>Font type: Arial<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/td>\n<td>Font size: 12 point<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/td>\n<td>1.5 line spacing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/td>\n<td>1 inch margin on all sides  and A4  page setting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong><span style=\"color: #35bf58;\">Administrative Procedures<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Do not write your name on any part of the manuscript, other  than on the cover page.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Online submissions will be made available from 5 February 2010.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"7\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/td>\n<td>Have a separate cover page  for your name, title of your essay and name of school.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/td>\n<td>Write the title of your  essay at the top right hand corner of each page of your manuscript.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/td>\n<td>State the total number of  words written at the end of your manuscript.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/td>\n<td>Number each page of your  manuscript.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/td>\n<td>Complete the on-line entry  registration fields during  submission of manuscript.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/td>\n<td>Attach your manuscript in  either Word Document or a PDF copy of Word Document.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<\/td>\n<td>Each entry should have between 1,500 words to a maximum of 3,000 words.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hullo, hullo indeed! Science Chronicles 2010 is a science fiction writing competition! Only thing is that it&#8217;s not for everyone but more for students. Nonetheless, if you&#8217;re 18 and under and currently in Singapore, check it out! Oh, currently it says nothing about poly students but we&#8217;ll see since I hit them up with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/science-chronicles-sci-fi-writing-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science Chronicles: Sci-Fi writing competition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[35,97],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-competition","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-kR","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}