Writing
Write a Book in a Day
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Year 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12
Subject
writing
Registration
Term 2 typically
Exam date
Single 12-hour day during the year
Prep horizon
2 months
Cost
~$25-50 AUD per team
Official site
Editor confidence
medium — data may need verification
About this exam
Team writing competition. Teams of up to 10 students get a set of plot/character constraints in the morning and must write + illustrate a complete book in 12 hours. Books are donated to children's hospitals. Run by The Kids' Cancer Project.
中文版
团队写作比赛。最多10人一组，早上拿到情节与角色限定条件后，须在12小时内完成一本书的创作与插图绘制。书籍最终捐赠给儿童。
Parent's call · SparkRoute editor take
Worth it for kids who like writing / are in a school with a team. Strong fit if your kid is reading-strong but doesn't yet love writing — the team dynamic + charity mission can spark engagement. Not a selection-relevant test but signals great character ("they wrote a book for kids in hospital"). Like APSMO, this is school-registered only.
中文版
如果孩子喜欢写作、或所在学校能组队参赛，就值得参加。孩子阅读能力强但不擅长其他竞赛类型的，尤其适合。
Skills developed
collaborative writing under pressurenarrative structuredealing with constraintstime management