Dec 13, 2024
This year we had 400 students enter THE GREAT KIWI WRITE OFF. It was a marvellous show of support for short story/essay writing by teachers and parents who encouraged their students to enter. However, the greatest applause should go to the students who took the time...
Dec 11, 2023
It’s time for another celebratory blog post! This time, we’d like to introduce and celebrate two incredibly talented student writers, Shelby Park and Dayna de Bruin-Adcock. Shelby Park from Morrinsville College placed 1st in the Year 9-10 category of the...
Dec 7, 2023
In this blog post, we are excited to celebrate Jacob O’Toole Corrigan, from Tauranga Boys College! Jacob placed 1st in the Year 11-13 category of our 2023 NZ-wide Student Writing Competition. What an incredible achievement for Jacob, whose story competed against...
Dec 5, 2023
Claire Sutherland, Chloe Page and Christina Wang swept us away with their fantastic stories. These talented Year 4s took out the top three places in our 2023 NZ-wide Student Writing Competition. This in itself was an uneasy feat, with hundreds of students competing...
Dec 3, 2023
Welcome back to our post series celebrating the incredible achievements of the 2023 Writing Competition place getters! Sebastian Roos, who wrote The Collision of Universes and placed 1st in the Year 7-8 Category, created two worlds in outer space. One world loved...
Dec 1, 2023
A few weeks back, we were thrilled to make the trip down to Mt Maunganui to present two Stylefit Writing Competition place getters with their well-earned prizes. For a school of 120 students, St Thomas More Catholic School did incredibly well, with two students...
Nov 27, 2023
Now that most of our competition winners have received their prizes, we would like to shout out a massive thank you to this year’s incredible sponsors! We are immensely grateful to ByteEd, Noel Leeming, MOTAT, New Zealand Geographic, Paper Plus Richmond and...
Sep 18, 2023
We are excited to announce our finalists for Stylefit’s Student Writing Competition held this winter! Having worked our way through over 4000 submissions across 400 entering schools, we would like to thank each and every one of you (students, teachers and...
Mar 10, 2023
The arrival of CHATGPT and technologies like it was inevitable and their continued sophistication is certain. There are many such services around but this one seems to have lit a fire in people’s imaginations. To pretend technologies such as CHATGPT will be a passing...
Jan 20, 2023
Our 2022 Student Writing Competition Winners Series continued! This week we celebrate Eloisa Jennings from Belfast School, who won Second Place in the Year 4 writing category. Eloisa’s amazing story ‘The Story of the Lost Kingdom’ was awarded second...
