To celebrate and get in the mood for the festive season I thought that we could have a writing competition. As many of you (on average at least 4,500 members visit the Lib Dem Voice site every day) write articles, read them or comment I propose a Christmas Article Competition.
The proposed Competition Rules are:
- An Article should not be more than 550 words;
- The article in each of the specified areas will be jointly judged by representatives identified as experts in that area by Lib Dem Voice and Lib Dem editors;
- The starting date for the competition starts as of 28th November to 17th December;
- The title of your article for the competition should start with the words “Competition: … followed by the title of your article”
Basic criteria when assessing each article will be:
- The originality of the article;
- That the article is within the stipulated maximise length required (550 words);
- Generally, how well has the article presented its argument on the subject matter;
- We will only accept one submission for each subject area per person (as stated below);
The article must relate to one of the following areas:
- How can the Lib Dems further promote their Green policies;
- How do you propose that the Lib Dem get their message across in mass media;
- What are the three main messages that the Lib Dems must get across for the local elections in May 2019;
- How would you go about raising funds for your local party;
- Why be a Liberal Democrat?
- How can we reduce inequality?
- Increasingly we have a divided country, what can the Liberal Democrats do to promote more tolerance in society?
The winner will be announced before Christmas and the winning author of the article will receive a small Christmas hamper.
So good luck.
* Cllr. Tahir Maher is a member of the LDV editorial team