Young Writer of the Year Competition
Malvern Writers’ Circle has been organising this annual event since 1994. It was established by the late Don Grounds and his wife Wendy, to promote and encourage young writers.
Entries are now invited for the
2012 Malvern Young Writer of the Year Competition
from writers aged 13 to 19
The judging will be led by poet and academic Julie Boden, award winning writer Dan Purdue, and author of the play ‘Elgar and Alice’ Peter Sutton.
Each entrant may submit ONE piece on any subject in ONE of the following categories (i.e. one entry only per student):
¨ Short Story or Creative Prose (up to 2,000 words): age 16-19 and age 13-15
¨ Poetry (up to 40 lines): age 16-19 and age 13-15
¨ A scene or extract from a play (up to 2000 words): age 13-19
There are cash prizes for all winners and runners-up
One winner in each age range will also receive an additional prize of £50 and the title Malvern Young Writer of the Year.
§ All entries must be clearly printed on one side only of every A4 sheet of paper used.
§ Each sheet must be numbered and must show the title of the piece.
§ The name of the author must NOT appear on the text or the title page.
The judges’ decision will be final.
Entries will receive feedback and comments from the panel.
Winners will be invited to read their entries at a public award ceremony and all winning entries will be published in a Young Writers' Anthology.
The authors will retain copyright.
Click to download an entry form and return it with your entry by 16th January 2012.
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The Malvern Young Writers of the Year 2011 were
Age 13-16 Rhiannon Edmonds
Age 16-19 Erin Cunningham
| Prose 13-15 | First | The Room | Rhiannon Edmonds (CTC) |
| Second | Spirit of the Place | Georgiana Kwok (MsJ) | |
| Commended | The Bite | Charlotte Davey (MsJ) | |
| Commended | He Who Seeks Shall be Given | Hannah Willis (MsJ) | |
| Commended | On the Beach Alone | Josie Hobbs (MsJ) | |
| Commended | Bruegel’s “The Harvester” | Jonathan Killam (MC) | |
| Prose 16-19 | First | I’ll tell you what it’s like to have cancer | Rosie Kilburn |
| Second | The Lookalike | Pilippe Defferrard (MC) | |
| Commended | Father, Fleur and Eleanor | Hannah Lillis (CTC) | |
| Commended | Shadow of Summer, Summer of Silence | Chen Tsui (MsJ) | |
| Commended | The Bubble | Tara Margulies (MC) | |
| Commended | Full Fathom Five | Liam Charlton (MC) | |
| Poetry 13-15 | First | Mrs Ramsay | Tally De Villiers Kuun (MsJ) |
| Second | The Sorrow Storm | Anna Llewellyn (MC) | |
| Commended | The Gods of the Sea | Joshua Price (MC) | |
| Poetry 16-19 | First | On Sherkin | Erin Cunningham (CTC) |
| Second | Like an Obsession | Jaqueline Cairns (HCHS) | |
| Commended | The Copse Hold | Harry Evans (HCHS) | |
| Commended | The Old Tree | Molly Swallow (DPHS) | |
| Commended | La Mort | Silviana Ciureailcus (MC) |
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Judges
Graham Gardner (short stories and prose),
Julie Boden (poetry),
Peter Sutton (plays).
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Malvern Young Writers of the Year 2010
16 -19 age group: Ben Taylor
13 – 15 age group: Kate Richards and Catherine Fleming
PROSE AGE 16-19
First: Frizz by Ben Taylor, Hanley Castle High School
Second: Room 101 by Rhiannon Allen, Malvern St James School for Girls
Highly commended: Stuck by Wulstan Nixon, Malvern College
Commended: A vicious tang of right and wrong by Ffion Robinson, Hanley Castle High School
Alban Arthan by Alex Bailey, Malvern College
Limbo: Fall or fly by Sophia Leonard, Malvern College
The beggars by Poppy Donaldson, Malvern College
PROSE AGE 13-15
First (joint): John's piano by Kate Richards, The Chase Technology College
The scream by Catherine Fleming, The Chase Technology College
Highly commended: Those shoes by Sophie Hickman, Highworth Grammar School
The fires of dawn by Daniel Mead, The Chase Technology College
The secret life of Harvey Bourne by Toby Newport, The Chase Technology College
The stones of Babylon by Hugo Williams, Malvern College
Commended: Faradine Forest by Elizabeth Fenwick, Dyson Perrins C of E Sports College
Living away from life by Becky Dinn, Malvern St James School for Girls
Narrow corridors, narrow minds by Jonny Butler, Hanley Castle High School
Creative writing inspired by Munsch's 'The Scream' by Freya Pratty, The Chase Technology College
The secret life of Steven Herbert by Sam Brady, The Chase Technology College
Tecumseh by Jasper Tautorus, Malvern College
The wedding dance by Eleanor Hobson, Malvern College
POETRY Age 13-15
First: Mirror, Mirror on The Wall by Octavia Manning Cox, Malvern St James School for Girls
Second: Guinevere by Saskia Osterloff, Malvern St James School for Girls
Commended: I am there... by Dami Williams, Malvern College
Mrs Dumpty by Harmony Chan, Malvern St James School for Girls
POETRY Age 16-19
First: Autobiography by Erin Cunningham, The Chase Technology College
Second: To Winter, With Love by Bryony Logan, Malvern College
Commended: Mardiacia Funebre by Laurel Buchanan, Malvern St James School for Girls
I'm a Star by Oluwaseyi Otegbeye, Malvern St James School for Girls
SCRIPT
First: Imaginary scene in the style of Alan Bennett, from ‘The History Boys’
by Alice Porter, Malvern St James School for Girls