Hirsch’s Creative Writing Competition

ARE you aged between 10 and 18 and do you love writing? Do you want to win R5 000 cash? Then this is for you.

Margaret Hirsch, chief operations officer of the Hirsch Group, was recently given a Lifetime Achievement Award in the retail and wholesale industry and is the winner of many business awards. She would like to give Durban school children who love creative writing an opportunity to let their talent shine. Write a story about yourself in 600 words or less.

The topic: You are 90 years old sitting on your front porch looking back on your life. Work back from where you are at 90 to when you were 80, to 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20 right down to today, the day you read about the creative writing competition.

Hirsch’s will be awarding a prize of R5 000 for the best essay, R2 000 for the second place and R1 000 for the third place from all entries received via Caxton Durban websites.

To enter fill in the entry form below and either copy and paste or attach your essay to the form

All essays will be published online. The winners will be chosen via a judging panel.

The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. The competition ends 31 October.

The winning essay will be published in one of the Caxton Durban newspapers along with a photo of the budding writer.

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