Storyathon is a free online event that challenges Year 3-8 Students to write a microstory that is exactly 100 words.


Students are presented with a unique online writing challenge to write a microstory of exactly 100 words based on a particular theme.

Teachers will select up to three stories from each class to go through to the finals, encourage students to read other students’ microstories and become the judges for Storyathon winners. Learn more about how it works.

Through microstories, Storyathon helps participating students:

Focus attention on important writing features

Supports students to write precisely

Challenges students to experiment with words

Engage within a community of learners

On top of helping create better writers, participating in Storyathon:

Improves your students' vocabulary learning

Develops their craftsmanship and creativity

Allows students of all abilities to participate

Provides teachers with access to powerful analytics

FAQs

No, Storyathon is a free event.

You can join by completing the registration form at the bottom of this page.

Storyathon will run again in 2021. You can choose how often you would like to participate - there is no obligation to participate.

No, you do not need to re-enter your details. We will save those for you to make life easier.

Yes. Student names are never displayed in full. The default is first name and initial.

Yes, students may create up to three stories.

How the Storyathon writing event works

1.
The event is announced


2.
Students write


3.
Teachers
vote


4.
Students
vote


Learn more and register

Joining Storyathon is easy and free. To register, go to the Storyathon website to learn more about register.

Learn more and register
Oxford Australian Children’s Word of the Year
in partnership with Storyathon

We proudly partnered with Storyathon, Australia's largest online story-writing event, to help us determine the 2020 Oxford Australian Children’s Word of the Year.

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