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2017 BCWC National qualifiers

Congratulations to all participants in this year competition! 4 regional judging panels selected the following national qualifiers 2017 Regional Results Some interesting statistics from this year’s competition: Schools participating – 185 Essays submitted – 4823 Schools with highest number of participants – Plovdiv LS, Plovdiv – 98, Hristo Botev LS, Kardjali – 90, PGPRE “G. S. Rakovski”, Burgas – 75 Schools with the highest number of national qualifiers – 32 Secondary School “Sw. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia – 5; Peyo Yavorov LS, Silistra – 4; Plovdiv LS, Plovdiv – 4; Vasil Aprilov Primary School, Burgas – 4 Special thanks to our regional judging panels who did a great job reading and rating more than four thousand creative pieces of writing!!!

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Writing days 2017

More than 4 800 students  from 186 schools will unleash their imagination on February 13 and 14 and will participate in the seventh edition of the Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition. Good luck to all participants!

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2016 Creative Writing Workshop

During the weekend of November 25-27, 2016 30 English language teachers from primary, secondary, vocational and language schools participated in a workshop organized by the CORPluS Foundation. The participants got involved in sessions on warm-ups and energizers, developing characters, writing with creative details, exploring poetry, evaluating students’ writing, etc. Thank you to our talented  and inspiring facilitators – Sophia Kleinsasser, Hannah Combe, Sunny Stimmler and Dena Popova.  The Creative Writing workshop was organized with the support of the Bulgarian-American Society.

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2017 BCWC participants

187 schools and more than 4000 students will participate in this year competition. 41 schools will join the fun for the first time! Here is the list of the participating schools: 2017 BCWC schools

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BCWC 2017 registration

The registration for the new season will start on October 5th, 2016. We are looking forward to meeting with the best and the most creative students!

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BCWC 2016 Award Ceremony

  On March 19th at the American University in Blagoevgrad we celebrated the achievements of this year’s winners and their teachers. All participants had the opportunity to visit the university campus and afterwards took part in a workshop facilitated by Dannie Chalk – an English Literature professor at AUBG. The official ceremony began with the entertaining performances by the Broadway Performance Club and the students from St. Kliment Ohridski High School. All students and their teachers received prizes provided by Klett, Macmillan and Express Publishing. The American University in Blagoevgrad awarded Bogomila Veleva with a three-week summer camp and Maria Luizova with an intensive TOEFL course. Maria Tsakova received the special prize in the name of the American writer Cynthia Phoel who was a former Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria. The CORPluS Foundation awarded Nikola Tsonchev and Yoan Dimov with a one-week creative writing course for the exceptionally creative way that they interpreted the given topics. The award ceremony marked the closing of this year’s campaign. We want to thank all our partners for their generous contributions towards our project: TELUS International Europe, American Univeristy in Bulgaria, US Embassy in Sofia, AVO-Bell and Integral.

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2016 BCWC National results

It is our pleasure to announce the national winners of the 2016 Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition! All regional finalist essays were read and assessed on Sunday, February 28, by our panel of 14 native speakers and Bulgarian professionals – Angela Rodel, Borislav Pantaleev, Jean Olson, Galina Nikolova, Gergana Paraskova, Gergana Yaneva, Darina Konova, Dimitar Tsekov, Iliana Dimitrova, Rada Kaneva, Moriah Kent, Maya Stoyanova-Warner, Kalina Daskalova,Valya Zavyalova,Vladimir Mihailovski and Zhana Zagorova. The judges a had great time and enjoyed themselves tremendously! Check the results at 2016 National Results There are 21 winners – 3 per grade level – and these students, as well as their English teachers (1 per school), will be invited to attend the official BCWC awards ceremony in Blagoevgrad on March 19, 2016. Schools and winners will be contacted individually at a later time in order to coordinate the logistics for the event. Once again, congratulations to all! The winning essays will be unveiled for all to read on the BCWC website. Stay tuned!

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2016 BCWC National Qualifiers

Who are the national qualifiers in this year competition? Check the list 2016 Regional Results Some interesting statistics from this year’s competition: Schools participating – 182 Essays submitted – 4054 Regions with the highest number of participants – city of Sofia – 396, Burgas – 372, Plovdiv – 320. Schools with highest number of participants – Hristo Botev LS, Kardjali – 153, Plovdiv LS, Plovdiv – 112 Regions with the highest number of national qualifiers –  Burgas – 14, city of Sofia – 14, Plovdiv – 11. Schools with the highest number of national qualifiers – Atanas Radev Math School, Yambol – 7; „Acad. G. Stoyanov” LS, Blagoevgrad – 5. Special thanks to our regional judging panels who did a great job reading and rating more than four thousand creative pieces of writing!!!    

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BCWC 2016 update

Thank you to all participants in the Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition 2016! The regional judging panels will read the works on February 20 – 21 and the national finalists will be announced on February 23. The national judging will take place on February 28 in Sofia.

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Creative Writing Workshop for teachers

During the first weekend of December 30 English language teachers participated in a workshop organized by the CORPluS Foundation. The participants got involved in sessions on writing warm-ups, unleashing students’ creativity, crafting description and developing characters, making poetry accessible, etc. The presented activities were all very practical and could be used in the classroom. Thank you to our talented  and inspiring facilitators – Jesse Kiendl, Moriah Kent and Sunny Stimmler. The Creative Writing workshop was organized with the support of the US Embassy in Sofia. All the presented activities will be organized in a booklet and will be posted on the website SOON.  

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