CHILDREN’S BOOKWRITING COMPETITION

ABOUT PROJECT LUNCHBOXCamden Council’s Project Lunchbox aims to raise awareness of the impact of food waste and encourage the local community to reduce how much ‘good’ food we waste. Project Lunchbox has been funded under the NSW Environment Protection Authority’s (EPA) Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW) grant program.

THE STORY OF FOOD WASTEFood waste results from preparing and cooking food. It is the food we throw in the bin, we feed to our pets or toss in the compost or worm farm. It’s the food we bought to eat but then threw away. There are two types of food waste: ‘avoidable’ and ‘unavoidable’ food waste.

The NSW EPA’s Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW) Program focuses on ‘avoidable’ food waste. This includes food that:

• gets wasted because we buy more than we need;• is out of date before we use it; and• gets wasted because we cook more than we need.

‘Unavoidable’ food waste is food waste that can not usually be eaten eg pineapple skins, tea bags and fruit and vegetable peelings. It is the food waste we can not really do anything further with apart from composting it or putting it in the bin.

THE COMPETITIONCamden Council is inviting all aspiring authors from the Camden LGA to write an original and inspiring story for children aged 3-7 years about reducing food waste! Include your best food saving tip or recipe either as part of the story or with your story!

Another Great Camden Council Event!

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Look in your fridge, pantry or even your child’s lunchbox! Is there a sad squishy tomato or whiffy wedge of cheese that will inspire your story?

Tip! It’s not just about feeding leftovers to your dog or worms! You can also visit www.lovefoodhatewaste.nsw.gov.au for food ideas, tips and

recipes or to become a Food Lover!

The competition includes three age categories*:• Open (18 years and over)• Young People (11–18 years)• Children (5–11 years)

*based on your age at 1 March 2014

Another Great Camden Council Event!

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ENTRY DETAILSEntry to Project Lunchbox - Children’s Book Writing Competition should include the following:

• your LFHW story (of no more than 600 words) emailed as an attachment, to lovefoodhatewaste@camden.nsw.gov.au. It must be submitted double-spaced in Arial 11pt or similar font inaWorddocumentandtitledwiththeauthor’ssurnamefirstname_storytitle(oranabbreviatedversionthereof)egSMITHJohn_What’sinthefridge.doc

• ‘LFHW Children’s Book Writing Competition’ in the subject line. • your contact details in the email including your name, age/age category, address, phone number and

LFHW story title. • a brief description of your LFHW story of no more than 25 words in the email.• a short biography of the author/s of no more than 100 words in the email.• your food saving tip or recipe (can be submitted as part of the story or additionally to the story).

ENTRY DEADLINESubmit your entry by midnight Monday 7 April 2014. Winners announced on Council’s website by midday Monday 21 April 2014.

WIN GREAT PRIZESThere is more than $1,000 worth of prizes to be won. Each age category winner will win the ultimate lunchbox - a lunchbox containing an iPad mini loaded with relevant food waste reduction applications, food saving resources and a printed book copy of their winning story!

TERMS AND CONDITIONS1. This competition is open to all residents living in the Camden Local Government Area, except Camden Council employees directly involved in the competition. 2. For the purposes of this competition, the competition organisers are defined as nominated staff fromCamdenCouncil involved in the organisation and

coordination of Project Lunchbox and this competition.3. The judges will comprise of representatives from Camden Council and at least one independent adjudicator. 4. Your story must be themed about reducing waste aimed at children aged between 3-7 years. It must be written in English but can include words in other

languages if relevant to the story.5. Each entrant may submit up to three entries in the competition. Each entry must be submitted in separate emails. Hard copies will not be accepted. Entry is

FREE! 6. TheclosingdateforsubmissionsismidnightMonday7April2014.Lateentrieswillnotbeaccepted.Wewillemailconfirmationthatwehavereceivedyour

entry. Your story can not be altered once it is sent to us.7. Only un-agented and amateur writers may submit entries into this competition. Writers must remain un-agented until they are out of the running for the prize – in

the case of the shortlisted authors this is when the winner is announced. 8. Authors’previousworkoffictionforchildrenmustbeunpublished inanycommerciallyprintedformat.Authorswhohaveself-publishedpreviousworks,or

publishednon-fiction,picturebooksandadultfictionareeligible,butthesubmittedmanuscriptmustbepreviouslyunpublishedinanyformat.9. Youmayenterstoriesyouhavealreadypublishedonyourblogornon-profitmakingwebsite.Pleasedonotsendworkwhichhaspreviouslywonaprize

elsewhere or one which is currently under consideration in another writing competition.10. Authors may submit work that is currently under consideration for other prizes, but agree to inform lovefoodhatewaste@camden.nsw.gov.au immediately should

theybelonglistedelsewhere.Disqualificationwillbeconsideredonacasebycasebasis,atthejudges’discretion.11. Submissions must be original and entirely the own work of the author/s and contain no explicit content12. Apanelofjudgesrepresentingsustainability,culturaldevelopmentandlibraryexpertisewillselectthethemeplacewinners.Thejudges’decisionisfinal.13. ThewinningauthorswillbenotifiedbyMonday21April2014.ThewinnerswillbeannouncedandtheirwinningstorieswillbepublishedonCouncil’swebsite

by 1 May 2014. Feedback to unsuccessful entrants will be at the discretion of Camden Council.14. Entrants in thiscompetitiongivepermission for theirworks tobereproducedbyprintandelectronicmediaby thecompetitionorganisers fornot forprofit

publications, advertising and promotional purposes. Entrants will be acknowledged if the image is reproduced.15. All personal information gathered by the competition organisers will be used solely for the purpose of administering Project Lunchbox funded through the Love

Food Hate Waste Program.16. The winning author/s will be requested to make themselves available for promotion of their story.17. By entering, all entrants agree to abide by each and all of these terms and conditions. Any submissions that do not follow these guidelines or include the required

informationmaybedisqualifiedatthediscretionofCamdenCouncilwithoutnoticetoorothercommunicationwiththeentrant.CamdenCouncilreservestherighttoamendthesetermsandconditionsatanytime.Thejudges’decisionisfinalandnocorrespondencewillbeenteredinto.Entrantsdeclarethattheworksprovided are original.