COMMUNITY ESSAYS (Auckland)
‘ Promoting Ideas ‘
TERTIARY STUDENT ESSAY COMPETITION
Who is ‘Community Essays Inc.’?
We are a group of businessmen with a common interest in promoting the idea that self reliance leads to
self esteem; we seek to combat the ideas that we believe can lead to youth drop-out and even suicide.
We believe, like Alan Duff, that reading and writing introduces youngsters to a world of books that may
have been unknown to them before and so give a new lease of life and a new confidence in their own
abilities.
Objective:
To foster young people’s writing talents; to encourage reading and writing for pleasure and education; to
further the idea that self-improvement comes from self-effort, and from this comes self-esteem and selfconfidence. We want to encourage the idea that one individual can make a difference.
Outline:
Community Essays (Auckland) intends to offer a prize for an annual essay competition. This competition
will be initially offered among Auckland tertiary students and will ask students to write an essay based
on a chosen topic.
The winning essays will be judged by a panel of well known Aucklanders and will be judged on both
style and content, and a high standard of analytical thought will be expected. Judges will look for writing
that is clear, articulate and logically organised. Winners will be announced in the local press.
Sponsors and Advertising:
Sponsorship is being sought to help promote the 1998 competition. Advertising will be throughout the
Auckland based student, youth and local media e.g. Radio bFM and Radio Pacific, Craccum Magazine,
Rip It Up Magazine, local newspapers etc.; we also will be issuing press releases to national media to
attract wider interest for coming years when the competition will be nationwide. Sponsors will of course
be mentioned in all advertisements and, where appropriate, in all press releases.
Competition Entrants
The competition is open to all Auckland tertiary students. We will have local advertising such as fliers
and billposters at all of the following: Auckland Institute of Studies, Auckland Institute of Technology,
Auckland University, Central Institute of Technology (Newmarket Campus), Crown Institute of Studies,
Manukau Institute of Technology, Massey University (Albany Campus), Mount St Mary’s Theological
College, NZ Institute of Business Studies, St John’s Theological College, Epsom and North Shore
Teachers’ Colleges, Tai Routini Polytech, Open Polytech of NZ, Whitecliffe College of Art and Design.
Please feel free to contact us should you have any further questions:
Peter Cresswell:
Ph/Fax (09) 631 0034 Mobile (025) 861 927
Peter Eichmann :
Ph/Fax (09) 360 8170 Mobile (021) 781 255 e-mail: eichmann@clear.net.nz
Deborah Coddington:
Contact c/- the above