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"Encourage creative writing skills, creativity with other curricula areas and the local areas."
Isobel Reid
PT English
Bo' ness Academy
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Entries showcase: poetry

Here are videos from people who entered work into our poetry categories in the Brit Writers' Awards Unpublished 2010.

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Holly Roach from East Yorkshire entered our poetry and fiction categories. The novel she submitted is called Number One Fan, sharing a story she had been meaning to write for a long time. In this video, Holly recites her poem 'A Cow's Gonna Charge'.



Ashaur Rahman sent us five poems along with a short story which are about, he says, "a whole variety of subject matters that are important in today's modern Britain". This short video is a visual interpretation of his writing.



Raveen Sandhu from Southampton (currently living in Madrid) sent in her collection of five poems called 'After a Long Time'. In this short video she talks about two of her favourite poems, including one entitled 'His Brown Eyes' which was intended as a love poem but took a "dark turn"...



Sam has submitted a collection of five poems she calls 'The Refugees', exploring her experience of living in a women's refuge. She describes her work as "quite raw but quite real" and hopes she can help empower other people, especially women. "No matter what has happened, you can't be silenced - and why should you [be]?"



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From the team


We did it!
Our first ever Brit Writers' Awards Unpublished ceremony has taken place and nine new writers have been awarded with prizes. We're busy reflecting on the amazing journey that was BWA 2010 and preparing ourselves for 2011.

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