GDST Creative Writing Application Process
The application process for the GDST Creative Writing prize is now open.
Prize details
The GDST Creative Writing prize will be an opportunity for GDST students to produce a piece of creative writing on a chosen theme, which for this year is ‘happiness’. As with the previous competition, we are asking for entries to be returned in January which will allow the girls the opportunity to develop their thoughts over the Christmas holidays.
Adjudicator
We are delighted that Northampton High School alumna Anne Fine has agreed to adjudicate. Anne Fine is a distinguished writer for both adults and children. Her novel Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize as well as Britain’s most coveted award for children’s literature, the Carnegie Medal. She won the Carnegie Medal again for Flour Babies, which also won the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award. Among her many other prizes are the Smarties Prize for Bill’s New Frock, a second Whitbread Award for The Tulip Touch, a silver Nestle prize for Ivan the Terrible, and many other regional and overseas awards.
In 1990 and again in 1993 she was voted Publishing News’ Children’s Author of the Year. In 1998, she was the UK nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Adaptations of Bill’s New Frock and Goggle-Eyes have been screened by the BBC and her novel Madame Doubtfire was adapted for film under the title Mrs Doubtfire.
Having written over fifty books for children of all ages, Anne Fine became Children’s Laureate in 2001 and during her two years of office set up the Home Library (free downloadable modern bookplates from www.myhomelibrary.org
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Anne Fine has also published eight highly acclaimed novels for adults, including In Cold Domain, All Bones and Lies and Raking the Ashes. The Killjoy won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and both Taking the Devil’s Advice and Telling Liddy have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Fly in the Ointment is in development as a television film, and Our Precious Lulu is her most recent novel.
Anne Fine’s work has been translated into forty five languages. In 2003 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an OBE. Anne has two grown up daughters, and lives in County Durham.
www.annefine.co.uk
Process
• Students from all year groups will be able to submit an entry of up to 1,000 words (not including the title) to their school.
• Each school can submit one short story or creative writing piece for each of the following six age group categories. Cheques for each of the categories will be awarded as follows:
* Years 1 and 2 - £100 * Years 3 and 4 - £100 * Years 5 and 6 - £100 * Years 7, 8 and 9 - £100 * Years 10 and 11 - £100 * Years 12 and 13 - £100
Entries must be sent by email to Mrs S. Richards by 12th January 2016.
• Each entry should be typed on a Word document or (for Junior girls only, where illustrations are involved) sent as a scanned pdf, with the following information clearly indicated on the document:
• The student’s name, school and Year
• The title of the story
• Number of words used (not including the title)
• Confirmation that we have permission to publicise the piece and in particular post it onto the GDST website together with the student name