Girls’ poems have swept the board at this year’s GSA’s annual Creating Writing Competition winning in every category with three immensely moving and beautifully written pieces.
Unveiled this week at GSA’s perennially popular Summer Briefing, Saffron from Palmers Green High School won the KS4 and 5 category with her hypnotic piece ‘I am Earth’, Olivia from Manor House School won the KS3 category with her moving poem ‘The Environment is Dying’, and Jemima at Bedford Girls’ School lyrical letter poem ‘Dear Earth’ took the top spot in the KS2 category.
As the winner of the eldest category, Saffron has won an eco-poetry workshop with award-winning writer and editor Karen McCarthy Woolf (link), so watch this space to see more on that later in the year.
We’re thrilled to share more writing with you which allow for more girls’ voices to be heard.
This year girls were invited to submit pieces to share their imaginations on the eco-theme of ‘Dear Earth…’. With the earth and planet uppermost in many minds the competition was designed to give expression to girls’ thoughts on the earth’s future, highlight how precious our natural world is, and show the world girls’ experiences of the earth and planet now.
Thanks to all the girls and schools who made time to write and submit to the Creative Writing Competition, and to our Heads and busy teachers for supporting it. We received hundreds of entries and so enjoyed reading all the inspiring writing about our environment and sustainability themes, and we couldn’t be prouder of our GSA students.
We can’t wait to do it all again next year!
Creative Writing Winners 2022
KS4/KS5 Winner:
Saffron Singh – I Earth…
Palmers Green High School
Runners-up:
Scout Wyatt – Manor House School, Bookham
Lily Whitelock – The Abbey
Third Place:
Rosie Brooker – King’s High, Warwick
Abby Tse -Notre Dame Senior School
Highly Commended:
Lara Frampton – St Catherine’s School, Twickenham
Gioia Calice -Francis Holland School, Sloane Square
Polly Rumble – King’s High, Warwick
Miranda Smither – Palmers Green High School
KS2 Winner
Jemima Webb – Dear Earth
Bedford Girls’ School
Runner-up:
Zara Tomkins – Adcote School For Girls
Third Place:
Elsa Turrell – Portsmouth High School GDST
Highly Commended:
Priyah Heppinstall – Wakefield Girls’ High School
Emily-May Wallen – Portsmouth High School GDST
Sneha – Talbot Heath School
Lia – Bedford Girls’ School
Elaina Ahktar Mohammad – Bedford Girls’ School
KS3 Winner:
Olivia Gravett – Dear Earth, the environment is dying
Manor House School
Runner-up:
Tamara Al-Zarrad – St Augustine’s Priory
Third Place:
Siya Rao – Loughborough High School
Highly Commended:
Eloise Scotland – St Mary’s School, Cambridge
Anonymous – St Augustine’s Priory
Isabella Austin – Notre Dame Senior School
Isla Thomson – St James Senior Girls’ School
