Congratulations to Owen Richards of St Mary’s RC Primary School who has won this year’s Green Pencil Award with his poem ‘ The city is wild’.
Owen impressed the judges with the power of his writing on this year’s theme, Nature on your Doorstep, and on Friday evening he was presented by Cllr Deidre Brock with the Green Pencil trophy and a range of sponsored prizes for himself and his class in the Central Library’s Reference Library.
With such a fantastic range of entries the judges had a very difficult task on their hands and they also awarded Highly Commended prizes for their very imaginative pieces to Anna Aitken of South Morningside Primary School for ‘Species in their millions‘ and to Louis Polson of Towerbank Primary School for ‘My squirrel‘. Here they are with Owen:
Congratulations to Owen, Anna and Louis and to all the talented young green writers – keep writing, keep reading and keep looking after the Nature on your Doorstep!
In the words of one of our bestselling local authors Vivian French – “Spoken words fly away like bubbles, but written words can change the world”
Organised by Edinburgh Libraries and Eco-Schools in Edinburgh, this creative writing competition is in its third year.
Tales of One City 