Senior Anthology 2024
Winner of the 2024 Young Writers’ Competition: The Game
Justin Brown – Melrose School
The Olympic Games lifted and inspired so many of us this summer. Athletes performing on the world’s stage after years of training; of intense blood, sweat and tears. To be an Olympian is to reach the very pinnacle of human endeavour. To stand alongside one’s teammates and competitors with the shared goal of doing one’s very best.
It is this gargantuan spirit that inspired the theme for the 2024 Young Writer’s Competition and our writers have certainly risen to the challenge. Game on. Dr Amy Waite, University of Roehampton, Chair of Senior Judges
Read the poems and stories from this year’s secondary school finalists in the 2024 competition.
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Some games take us to distant mystical lands, while others take place in the comfort of home. Some games are a matter of life and death; others are an entertaining way to pass the time on the weekend. Through ‘The Game’, our young writers explore themes of failure and triumph; friendship and rivalry; determination and resilience. This anthology displays a fantastic array of young talent; these original, thoughtful and funny poets and storytellers have clearly got what it takes to become the writers of the future.
So turn the page and let the games begin…
Eve Wersocki Morris Author, Chair of Junior Judges