Live it. Create it. Share It

Entries for the Live It. Create It. Share It competition have closed.

Step 1

Create an artwork in whatever format is most appropriate for you. It might be a drawing, painting, photograph or sculpture which reflects the theme Your experience of COVID-19. Artwork can be very subjective, so please include a brief artist’s statement describing your work and how it represents the theme.

Or

Produce a creative writing piece such as a poem, song or short story that reflects the theme Your experience of COVID-19.

Step 2

Upload your creation by going to the Submit Your Entry box. You will need to be able to capture your entry digitally as a photograph, video or audio file.

Entries for the Live It. Create It. Share It competition have closed.

1. You must be aged between 12 and 25.
2. Your permanent place of residence must be in the Armidale Regional Council Local Government Area.
3. Immediate family members of Armidale Regional Library staff are not eligible to enter.
4. Written submissions must be in English.
5. Only one entry per person is allowed. If we receive multiple entries from the one person, only their first entry will be judged.
6. Entrants must not be a professional artist or author.
7. Entries close at 11.59pm on Sunday 7 June 2020.
8. Entries must be submitted online through the designated portal in the format specified.
9. The competition uses Armidale Regional Council's Your Say Armidale website to receive and store information from you. Our policy is that we will not pass on your details to any third party without your prior consent.
10. Each entry submitted must be the wholly original and unpublished work of the entrant who must also be its copyright owner.
11. The entrant shall retain copyright to the entry entered for the competition.
12. By submitting an entry, the entrant will be regarded as having granted the organiser the right to use the entry in print, broadcast, and/or electronic media without any fee payment, for the purposes of promoting the competition or areas related to the organiser’s work. Where any entry is so used by the organiser, the entrant will be acknowledged by their first and last name or their first name and age.
13. For entrants under the age of 18, submission of an entry will assume parental permission has been granted to enter the competition.
14. The organiser reserves the right to change or replace competition prizes and/or modify the rules and regulations of the competition as and when necessary, without prior notice.
15. The winners will be selected by a panel of judges and their decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into.
16. By submitting an entry, the entrant will be regarded as having accepted and agreed to be bound by the rules and regulations of the competition.
17. Winners will be notified by phone or email.
18. The ‘Live It, Create It, Share It’ competition is organised by the Armidale Regional Council Libraries.
19. By submitting an entry, you give Armidale Regional Council permission to display your entry in our Libraries, some time after the libraries re-open.
20. Mac page files and Keynote files will not be accepted.

To really make your entry shine, we also encourage entrants to:

• Upload images as high resolution files
• Upload written compositions as PDF files to ensure their layout is just how you want it, particularly for poems. Written entries can be typed into the text box in the entry form if you are unable upload it as a PDF.