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The registration for the new season will start on October 9th, 2017.  Looking forward to meeting with the best and the most talented students!

“It’s always a pleasure to read the essays, and I especially loved the prompts this year. I have to say, I was particularly taken with some of the younger grade essays.” Cynthia Phoel “It is my pleasure to be on the national judging panel for the 4th successive year! I was given the unique chance to meet young people, who are definitely our future day. And what I feel is respect and admiration!” Darina Konova On April 22nd 2017 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.  The students and their teachers received T-shirts (I became a WRITER to give the VOICES in my head something PRODUCTIVE to do 🙂 and prizes provided by Klett, Macmillan, Express Publishing and Mondelez. The CORPluS Foundation awarded the winners with vоuchers for books. The American University in Blagoevgrad awarded Tsvetina Chirganska (PMG Yane Sandanski, Gotse Delchev) with a three-week summer camp and Bilyana Tsolova (32 SU, Sofia) with an intensive TOEFL course. Daniela Kirilova (PEG Prof. d-r Asen Zlatarov, Veliko tarnovo) received the special prize in the name of the American writer Cynthia Phoel who was a former Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria. 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: US Embassy in Sofia, American University in Bulgaria,  AVO-Bell and Integral. The collection of this year winning entries will be published SOON 🙂  

And here are the national winners of the 2017 Bulgarian Creative Writing Competition! All regional finalist essays were read and assessed on Saturday, March 11,2017 by our panel of 12 native speakers and Bulgarian professionals – Angela Rodel, Borislav Pantaleev, Darina Konova, Dimitar Tsekov, Galina Nikolova, Gergana Paraskova, Gergana Yaneva, Joseph Herr, Neli Gacheva, Sunny Stimmler,Valya Zavyalova and Vladimir Mihailovski. “In the past few years reading these essays and getting a glimpse of the creative worlds of 6th to 12th graders has been one of the yearly pleasures for me” – Galina Nikolova Check the results at 2017 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 April 22, 2017. 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!

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!!!

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!