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Divine Chocolate & Christian Aid National Poetry Competition
The English Faculty would like to draw your attention to another competition opportunity: This year’s theme: Where does the chocolate journey begin? The key ingredient in...
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The English Faculty would like to draw your attention to another competition opportunity:
This year’s theme: Where does the chocolate journey begin?
The key ingredient in chocolate is cocoa. Most of the cocoa you eat comes from the rainforests of West Africa, where farmers tend their cocoa trees on small family farms. This is where the chocolate journey begins.
Click here for the Poetry Competition Guide
If you are interested in finding out more, the details of what you need to do can be found here: https://www.divinechocolate.com/news/poetry
Who can enter?
The competition has three categories:
- 7-11 year olds
- 12-16 year olds
- 17 years and over
Closing dates
The deadline for poems is 5th June 2020.
Prizes
A film of your poem being read by this year’s guest judge, Onjali Raúf, winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019. PLUS Divine Chocolate goodies and book tokens!
Submit your poems. The deadline for poems in English is 5th June 2020.
Hopefully some of you will take up the challenge.
Good Luck
