Competition · Online · Japan
Mainichi DAS Student Design Award, High School Division 'Silver Egg Award' 2026 (41st)
一般社団法人総合デザイナー協会 (Designers Association of Synthesis, DAS)
- Grades 10–12
- Fee: ¥2,000
Deadline: Nov 13, 202612 days leftView details
Competition · Online
Kakuyomu Koshien (High School Novel Contest by KADOKAWA's Kakuyomu) - 2027 edition
Applications upcomingNo foreign travel required
KADOKAWA's online fiction contest exclusively for high school students, held on the novel-posting site Kakuyomu with a long division (5,000-20,000 characters) and a short division (400-4,999 characters).
- Grade
- 10–12
- Age
- Not published
- School attendance
- Japan
- Residence: Japan
- Entry
- Open application
Organized by KADOKAWA with the backing of the Yomiuri Shimbun, MEXT and the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education. Any genre is welcome (contemporary drama, essay, romance, mystery, horror, SF, fantasy, history, poetry and more). In 2026 the judge was author Shun Ayasaki. Prizes per division in 2026: Grand Prize (certificate, shield, banner and 50,000-yen book card), Yomiuri Shimbun Prize, Theme Prize ('Rain'), about 5 Excellence Prizes (10,000-yen book cards) and about 10 Honourable Mentions (5,000-yen). Winning works appear in the Yomiuri Chukosei Shimbun, and every work that passes the mid-round receives written feedback.
Topics
ArtsFiction WritingOnline Novel ContestHigh School OnlyIndividualFree Account Needed