Writing competition

Concern’s Creative Writing Competition

The Concern Creative Writing Competition is an annual event which began in 2008 to mark Concern's 40th anniversary as a charity.

Twitter writing competition

The closing date for our international writing competition is fast approaching – you must enter by midnight on Sunday. To mark this important deadline, we have launched a Twitter version of the competition.

Dear President Obama book launched

In 2009, we encouraged people to write a letter to US President Barack Obama about some very important issues, like hunger, climate change and child labour. The winning letters from this, our second writing competition, were collected together and published in a new book.

Writing competition: prizes

The prizes for last year’s writing competition included laptops, ipods and subscriptions to National Geographic Magazine.

Writing competition: hunger facts

Here are some facts about hunger to get your research started.

The report of the 2005 UN Millennium Project Task Force defines hunger as a condition in which people lack the basic food to provide them with energy

Writing competition: climate change

Climate change is the single biggest threat we face globally. Here are a few interesting facts, just to get you started.

Greenhouse gas emissions are to blame for creating climate change.

Writing competition: child labour

Here are a few facts about child labour, to get your research started.

There are over 218 million children working as child labourers. This is roughly one out of every seven children in the world.

Writing competition: rules

Here are the rules for Concern’s Creative Writing Competition.

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