National English Writing Competition (Singapore)

Organized by the Young Writers Press, the National English Writing Competition (NEW-C) is an on-the-spot writing competition held in Singapore for students between 8 to 12 years old.

Registration is only open through schools and annually, more than a hundred of Singapore’s top students are nominated by their schools to represent them in this competition.

As Singapore’s most prestigious and longest-running nationwide on-the-spot writing competition for students, this competition aims to recognise and encourage budding talents.

For more details, please see:

1^st National English Writing Competition (NEW-C) – 2016

2^nd National English Writing Competition (NEW-C) – 2017

3^rd National English Writing Competition (NEW-C) – 2018

4^th National English Writing Competition (NEW-C) – 2019

Note: Due to the on-going coronavirus pandemic and the on-the-spot nature of the writing competition, the competition is currently on hiatus and will resume in due course.