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We are glad to announce that as of today we have 124 schools with almost 3500 participants registered for BCWC 2014. As the deadline for registration is December 20, most probably we will beat our last year’s record. We will send an email to all schools confirming their registration by December 20. This year we got a few inquiries from private schools regarding their participation in the competition. So far they were not eligible to participate due to the fact that the curriculum in the private schools provides more English classes per week than the one in the regular municipality and state schools. Thus, private school students are at an advantage in terms of opportunities to study the language, which often discourages other institutions from entering. At the same time, we realize that the students at private schools would also benefit from participation in different competitions together with other students. In this regard, we are willing to take steps towards opening the competition to everyone from next year onward. Unfortunately, we cannot change the rules this year, but what we can offer is to accept private schools students’ essays independently of ranking. Our judges will read them (and select some essays of distinction, with certificates of merit for any top essays selected) but they will not advance further to the national level of competition. Private schools willing to participate independently of ranking are welcome to register by December 20th.

On November 15th CORPluS hosted a party for friends and supporters and raised money for the upcoming 4th Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition. Great people for a great cause! We are looking forward to a successful BCWC season!

Thank you for your interest in Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition 2014! You can register your school here. Note that the link will be active from December 2nd to December 20th, 2013

Having won the Bulgarian Creative Writing competition, I was awarded one of the special awards – three weeks in the SAT preparatory course at AUBG , Blagoevgrad. I consider those weeks spent there as  the highlights of my summer, because for the relatively short period of three weeks, I felt this place like a home from home and the people there like my dearest friends. I met students from all over the world here and made lasting friendships with girls and boys from countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Spain and many others. Nothing feels as good as AUBG‘s  vibrant social life and the exhilarating college atmosphere all around you. The SAT course itself and the classes with our teacher were something I was looking forward to attending every day. During them, I obtained test taking strategies, self-timing techniques  and I upgraded my vocabulary with more sophisticated SAT words.I can‘t help but think that this course contained everything I needed in order to take the SAT. The rest – the motivation and the number 2 pencil –was up to me. I can honestly say that in the lively atmosphere of the AUBG campus  with so many open-minded and outgoing people around me, I caught myself feeling numerous times just like a „Meteor flying through outer space…“.   “   “The summer of 2013 was the best summer for me, because I got to go to the AUBG summer camp. It was an amazing experience, because I got to meet people from many different countries. I realize how little I knew about some of those countries and how easy it can be to make new friends. Everyone there was friendly and you could just randomly approach someone and introduce yourself without worrying you’ll be rejected. I loved all the different activities – from yoga to arts and crafts, how our lessons were brought to us in a fun way anyone could enjoy, how the teachers made us feel like we are equal to them and gave us opportunity to share what we had worked on at the end of every week, but most of all I loved the diversity of people there. The camp was a wonderful experience for me and I would definitely go there again.” Ivelina Numerova, SOU “Hristo Prodanov”, Karlovo