cbseacademic.nic.in CBSE Budding Authors Program 2024-25 : Central Board of Secondary Education

Organisation : Central Board of Secondary Education CBSE
Contest Name : Budding Authors Program 2024-25
Applicable For : Classes 5 to 10th Students
Last Date : 15th May 2024
Apply Online here : https://cbseit.in/cbse/2024/B_Author/login.aspx
Website : https://cbseacademic.nic.in//index.html

What is CBSE Budding Authors Program?

Budding Authors Program 2024-25 is organized by Central Board of Secondary Education One of the activity under the CBSE Reading Mission is the CBSE Budding Authors Program which aims to ignite the creative spark within students by encouraging them to explore the art of storytelling. By writing and submitting short stories under this program, students have the exciting opportunity to express their imagination and ideas, with a chance to see their work published, hand- holded and an opportunity to meet renowned story-writers for children. Last Date of Contest is 15th May 2024.

Related / Similar Contest : CBSE Science Challenge 2024-25

Categories of CBSE Budding Authors Program

The students can submit their stories in Hindi or English in the following three categories:

How to Apply for Budding Authors Program?

Steps of the Program :

Registration

Timeline: 5th April – 15th May 2024
** The schools shall register their students for the CBSE Budding Authors Program at the link provided on the CBSE Academic website https://cbseacademic.nic.in/ under Reading Mission Tab between 5th April – 15th May 2024. School can nominate a teacher as a nodal officer for registering students who are inclined to write stories. No limit is placed on the number of registrations from each school.

** A unique login ID and password will be generated for each student at the time of registration in the Budding Authors portal. The list of registered students will be available to the schools on the above portal as the Final Registration List.
** The schools are requested to keep a record of the IDs and passwords.

Online Workshops

Timeline: 1st – 30th June 2024
** Webinars on the “Techniques of Writing” will be organized for the registered students by the experts through Webex.
** The Link and the schedule will be shared on the email ids mentioned at the time of registration.
** The students can develop/write their stories during the summer vacations.

Submission of Stories

Timeline: 1st July – 15th August 2024
** The school will share the unique id and password with each student who have registered. The students will use it as login credentials for writing and submitting the stories on the technology platform.
** The link for writing and submitting the stories will be available on the CBSE Academic website under CBSE Reading Mission on 1st July 2024.
** The students may develop, edit and finally submit their entries till 15th August, 2024.
** All students who would successfully submit their created short story will get an online certificate of participation at the school’s e-mail ID; once the final stories are e-published.

Evaluation and Publication

** The entries submitted by students in the Second Phase would be evaluated by a panel of experts.
** Shortlisted entries of each category will be provided editorial support to finalize their creation.
** Best entries selected at the national level will be e-published by CBSE as a collection of short stories for each category. Terms and conditions for the participation is at Annexure II.
** For any query, you may send an email to cbse.reading.mission[AT]cbseshiksha.in

Terms and Conditions For Participation

** Students are expected to submit an original, unpublished short story written in English or Hindi. This shall be certified by the head if the school. Plagiarism check and Principal recommendations would be taken before the winners are published.
** Budding authors may submit short stories on all themes (all styles, genres, and types of writing) in compliance with the content guidelines of the CBSE Budding Authors Program.
** Registration and submissions are to be made on the technology platform only.
** There is NO FEE for participation.
** Stories submitted will be licensed under the CC BY4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Copyright remains with the author but CBSE reserves the right to be the first to publish the selected works.
** Submissions will be judged on literary merit, originality and readability. All final decisions rest with CBSE.

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