Final NWW Children's Competition Winners 2018 (Primary)

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NORTH WEST WORDS YOUNG WRITERS COMPETITONS 2018 WINNERS Winners of the North West Words Young Writers Poetry and Fiction Competitions sponsored by Eason with judge, Deirdre Hines and Councillor Gerry McMonagle Judge, Deirdre Hines with Tara McDermott, North West Words Young Writer of the Year, 2018 Also a thanks to Lorraine Carey for her paintings. They are used as the front cover and dividers between the various categories. 2
NORTH WEST WORDS YOUNG WRITERS COMPETITONS 2018 WINNERS Competition Results 2018 Primary School Fiction 1st Place Octavia's Wish by Tara McDermott 2nd Place Diary of an Orca by Lucian Brown 3rd Place The House of the Goose's Nest by Cornelia Brown Judge's Notes The studies of adult creative writers have shown that they were early and passionate readers, encountering the written word with intense enjoyment, often using reading as an escape from the world. A prodigy is generally understood as being a child under ten who produces work that is similar to that of adult professionals. All of this year's winning entries display prodigy. In third place the writer of 'The House of the Goose's Nest' belies an uncanny wisdom and facility with sentence and description in a story that is a trip down memory lane for the writer's parents. The sense this writer evokes of time and place and relationship is quite simply masterful. In second place the writer of 'Diary of an Orca' achieves what the bardic schools of old always advised writers to practise; to imagine yourself as other, whether that be a stone, a tree or another person. In this case, an Orca. The rich imagery this writer uses as the orca travels the oceans displays a knowledge of marine life. All stories bring their readers on a journey. I particularly enjoyed this author's re-invention of the tropes of ghost-ships and marine biologists. A triumph of the imagination. In first place the writer of 'Octavia's Wish' does not put a foot wrong. This is seamless writing. Each sentence moves the story forward. And what sentences. There is rhythm, visual imagery, and melodic combinations that work on the ear with the sonorous authority of a tune you want to listen to again and again. The natural ear for language that prodigies display is not often married with a gift for plot that includes sophisticated use of syntax, and the parentheses in this story add to the complexity of the writing. A triumph of voice, style, plot and language meld together in a story that reinvents the time worn and jaded conceit of change in seasons. The central character will remain with you long after you have read or heard this story. A writer the world will remember. The standard of entries in this category was astounding. My longlist counted 16 stories. If there was any consistent flaw in some of these stories it was from the incorrect use of tenses. I would like to give special mention to 'My Sister is an Alien' for its excellent plot and 'The Escape' for the funniest line in the whole competition - 'They lived in a huge mansion and disguised themselves as posh people'. Finally 'Goldilocks and the Three Reading Bears' crossed genres. A hybrid of fiction and verse in a beautifully presented chapbook. Keep writing. 3
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