Sport young writers are sought for 2017 to write in Christian Today Australia Christian Today and New Zealand - young men and women between the ages of 18-30.
The criteria for young sport writers are
Keen on sport
Keen to writer about sport
A knowledge of spelling and syntax
Keen to have a go ....
Press Service International run the young writer program with Christian Today Australia and Christian Today New Zealand. The Australian sport writers commenced in 2009. In 2012 young Kiwi's were invited to become young writers in Christian Today Australia and in 2017 the Kiwi's will have their own separate edition of Christian Today.
Christian Today is part of CMCI - Christian Media Corporation International - with Christian Post (USA, Canada, Germany), and Christian Today (UK, Czech, Australia, India, New Zealand. Christian Post (USA) is the world's largest Christian news provider.
The Australian edition has had a weekly volunteer sport writer since 2009 and four of those young writers are still with the program. Jeremy Dover (Melbourne), Wesley Tronson (Brisbane), Josh Hinds (Central Coast) and Rosie Timmins (Melbourne) who has transferred as one of the Australian sport panellists.
Each year a set of panellists mark the sport articles with points of out 10 for each article and at the end of the marking season they are collated for the annual Tony Dunkerley Sport Award presented at the annual sport awards.
New Zealand sport writers
The Christian Today New Zealand program is looking for four young sport writers. Last years NZ sport young writer Tim Newman won the Press Service International Tony Dunkerley Sport Award in Sydney. Tim followed Brad Mills of Auckland as the Kiwi sport writer.
In 2017 there are four volunteer young sport writers 'positions' available to Kiwi young people (18-30 age bracket) in the Christian Today New Zealand program.
Not only will they write and have published their monthly sport article, those sport articles will be marked by a set of New Zealand panellists for the annual awards.
Australia requires one new young sport writer.
Sport writers
Again, the criteria for young Kiwi sport writers are
Keen on sport
Keen to writer about sport
A knowledge of spelling and syntax
Keen to have a go ....
Moreover these young sport writers are writing sport, not theology.
Christian young writers (male and female) keen to try their hand at writing sport please contact -
Dr Mark Tronson
info@markt.id.au
Dr Mark Tronson is a Baptist minister (retired) who served as the Australian cricket team chaplain for 17 years (2000 ret) and established Life After Cricket in 2001. He was recognised by the Olympic Ministry Medal in 2009 presented by Carl Lewis Olympian of the Century. He mentors young writers and has written 24 books, and enjoys writing. He is married to Delma, with four adult children and grand-children.
Mark Tronson's archive of articles can be viewed at http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/mark-tronson.html