CREATE Trophy

The CREATE Trophy for Creative Writing at Lockerbie Academy is sponsored by the CREATE Team following Lockerbie Academy’s successful participation in both the pilot scheme and the first round of the Dumfries and Galloway Creative Writing Residency.
Lockerbie Academy's 2008/09 CREATE Trophy Winners
Scottish and Gaelic writer Aonghas MacNeacail spent three weeks working with staff and students at the school in October 2006, preparing poetry and prose for the Regional Anthology Out of my Mouth. The anthology features work from both staff and students of Lockerbie Academy. Aonghas’s residency stimulated an already growing interest in Creative Writing among Lockerbie Academy students, and in recognition of this it was decided to endow an annual prize in Creative Writing. This is awarded to the student in S5/6 who achieves the highest standard in creative writing. This year the prize was judged by Julian Colton in April 2009 from a group of entries he described as being of a very high standard. He picked out winner Kate Shenton’s entry for ‘the multiple layers’ of theme and characterisation in its opening chapter. Runner-up Amy Cochrane was commended for her ‘ambitious, strong and detailed’ work. Julian also praised Scott Irving who came third for ‘a brave story confronting a bleak theme’. All three were congratulated for their ‘skilful and disciplined’ writing.
CREATE Trophy Winners: 2006 - 2007 – Rosie Beardon 2007 - 2008 – Meg Bartlett 2008 - 2009 – Kate Shenton
	Winner 2008/09 - Amy West by Kate Shenton
Runner Up 2008/09 - Honey and Silk by Amy Cochrane	3rd Place 2008/09 - New Beginning by Scott Irving

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