Bookmark Design Competition

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Celebrate Lane Cove Library’s 70th birthday by designing bookmarks for the library!

The competition opens Sunday 1 June 2025 and entries close Thursday 31 July 2025.

The competition is open to four different age categories:

  • 4 - 10 years
  • 11 - 17 years
  • 18 - 59 years
  • 60+ years

Design bookmarks across ten genre categories for Junior, Young Adult, and Adult books.

The ten genres are:

  • Mystery/Thriller
  • Horror/Paranormal
  • Fantasy
  • Family/Friends
  • Adventure
  • Historical
  • Romance
  • War
  • Science Fiction
  • Australian

One entry per genre will be accepted, with a maximum of ten entries per person.

A Shorelink Library membership is required. 

Collect an entry form from Lane Cove Library, Greenwich Library, St Leonards Library or The Yarn, Hunters Hill, or download an entry form here: Entry form

Terms and Conditions

  • The competition opens Sunday 1 June 2025.
  • Entrants must have a current Shorelink Library membership.
  • Each entry must be an original work, completed on the competition template and must include completed entry form details, including entrant's parent or guardian signature to consent for the entrant to participate if entrant is under 16 years of age.
  • Lane Cove Council is authorised to display and publish all entries. Entries will not be returned.
  • Lane Cove Library must receive each entry no later than 11:59pm on Thursday 31 July 2025.
  • Winning entries will be announced on International Literacy Day Monday 8 September. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  • Winning designs will be made into bookmarks that will be distributed throughout Lane Cove Library service. Each winner will receive twenty (20) copies of their winning design bookmark and a certificate.

 

How to Enter the competition

  • In person entries: Submit your design in person to Lane Cove Library, Greenwich Library, St Leonards Library, and The Yarn, Hunters Hill.
  • Email entries: Please include your design as a high-resolution scan and all entry form answers in your email to library@lanecove.nsw.gov.au

 

 

 

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