Inspiring Voices: Braunton students Recognised for Creative Writing

 This term we’ve had a number of successes in Creative Writing Club!

Amelie in Y7 has been our first student of this year to be printed in a ‘Young Writers’ anthology, ‘I Have a Dream’, a copy of which was sent to the school last week and will be available to students in the school library.  There have also been entries from Matilda and Florence (year 7) that are in the process of being judged as we speak. 

On the theme of Young Writers, a number of other Creative Writing members will also be printed in upcoming anthologies: Shore (year 8), Clodagh, Coco, Hetty, Sylvia (year 9), Daisy and Amelie (year7). These will be featured in Stranger Sagas and/or Ghost Stories – Midnight Madness collections. 

We also entered the annual Taunton Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre ‘The Page is Printed’ competition in which Flo (year 9) was awarded Highly Commended for her excellent stream of consciousness piece entitled ‘Blue’. 

 As well as this, we’re awaiting results from a number of entries to national competitions, namely Never Such Innocence – ‘In Someone else’s shoes’, to which we have submitted four entries from students who wrote a piece on the theme of war, and The Chaucer Heritage Trust’s Canterbury Tales poetry/story competition.  

Finally, we had a large number of entries to the Rotary Club Young Writer competition. Two students have been selected to continue to the next round - these are Bea (year 7) and Chloe (year 11).  Everyone who entered will receive a certificate for their hard work and we were really impressed with the quality of the entries.  

Next term we’re really excited to be launching an in-school picture book competition for which we have organised a special prize from a local illustrator, Joseph Witchall. The theme for this will be released after the Easter break and students will be tasked with creating an illustrated story book of 24 pages. 

Upcoming competitions for next term also include Exeter Quay Word’s annual flash fiction competition and Author of Tomorrow’s adventure story writing. 

If you’re interested in being involved in Creative Writing Club, we run The Main Chapter every Tuesday 15:15-16:30 and Drop-in and Draft on Wednesday lunchtimes in Room 66. Come along to meet like-minded people and join a range of competitions. You never know where your writing may take you!