‘Write a Book in a Day’ is a fun, creative and collaborative competition for students in years 5 to 12 and adult writing groups. Teams of up to ten have just twelve hours to write and illustrate a book from start to finish. To make it even more fun, unique parameters must be included in the story. Digital editions of the completed stories are made available on the Online Library and shared with hospitals across Australia.

Funds raised through sponsorship go to The Kids’ Cancer Project, a national charity supporting childhood cancer research. In 2021 the competition raised over $595,000 for childhood cancer research, thanks to 8,307 writers from 1,252 teams from every state and territory.

This year Mary MacKillop Primary School and the Year 6’s have again taken on the challenge to write a book in a day - from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. This will occur on Thursday 25th August. Our wonderful team of writers and illustrators are:   Summer, Jasmine, Ava, Apaar, Douie , Emma, Alanna, Jazz, Natalie K and Sienna.

We need help in raising money for this event, so we will hold a Lucky Dip throughout the school where we ask students to bring a gold coin to enter the Lucky Dip competition.

The Lucky Dip will take place on either Monday 22nd August, Tuesday 23rd August or Wednesday 24th August, so we ask students to bring along a gold coin on these days if they would like to participate.

We hope you can support this wonderful cause and help the ‘Write the Book in a Day’ team raise as much money as possible.  

Thank you