Project+Happines

Call for Submissions from Year 10 Creative Writing, Centralian Senior Secondary College, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

**We as a class chose happiness as our theme because everyone has some idea about what happiness is.**
===**We would like you to tell us what your ideas about happiness are, and what your experiences of happiness have been (a moment that you can remember when you were happy, even if it was just for a second). The purpose of this topic is to see if happiness is different in different countries and cultures, or if it means the same thing to everyone.**===

Here are some questions you can think about that may help you think, remember and write about happiness.

Personal Questions: 1. What makes you happy in your life today? 2. What has made you happy in the past? 3. What would make you happy in the future? 4. How do you know when you are happy? 5. What are the different things that make you happy? (eg: Friends / family etc.)

General Questions: 6. Is happiness connected to love? In what way? 7. Is happiness linked with freedom? Why/not? 8. What is true happiness? Can you explain it in a sentence? 9. Is the meaning of life happiness? Is so, why? 10. Can you ‘pursue’ happiness (as in the American constitution)? If so, how? 11. Can someone choose to be happy? If so, how? If not, why not?

There are many ways you can present this for this section of the magazine. Here are some examples of what you can do.

- Poem (in any form, such as haiku, shape poem, sonnet, free verse) - Short Story - Descriptive Writing (of a place or of a person that makes you happy, or is happy) - Description of a memory or dream - Scene in Play Script/Screenplay/Radio Play form - Comic Strip - Recipe or Step-by-Step Procedure - Journal Entry or other Personal Writing - Letter (to someone who seems happy or unhappy, asking questions or giving advice)

You can illustrate your writing.

We look forward to reading your responses.