Competition Winners

These are the pieces of mine which have one various competitions.

The Blacksmith's Boy

The story of a young man growing up as the son of a blacksmith in the early 1900s. I wrote this when I was 10 and it won first prize in the Young Writers Oxford Literary Festival competition in 2004.
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Daisy Chains

This poem came runner up in the Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize in 2008 in the Connecting category.

The Five Pound Note

Winner (with distinction) of the 2009 Citigroup creative writing competition on the theme of money.
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The Parcel

This short story was a winner of the Gifted and Talented Youth creative writing competition in 2007, on the theme of The Greatest Gift.