Creative writing at the College
Creativity by Jo Akrill, teacher of English
This year, the College’s three creative writing groups have come together every week, enjoying the opportunity to write, share, and discuss the writing process with their peers. Highlights this year for the Middle School Chameleon Creative Writers and the Year 12 and Year 13 Upper Case Writers were their workshops with actor-writer Tonderai Munyevu, giving them valuable in- sights into genres they had not previously ex- plored. Equally noteworthy was Year 10 writer Freddie Tapp’s Highly Commended entry in this year’s ‘Love Letters to London’ prize. ‘Nine Ways of Looking at London’ was one of just 10 highly commended pieces selected from hundreds of entries. Our Year 7 and Year 8 writers, the Word- Smiths, show plenty of promise, having particu- larly relished their comic and dystopian writing in recent months. We hope that you enjoy this small selection which showcases the imagination and humanity which they bring to their work.
Birdseed by Joseph Robson, Year 12
you used to have some single-use cracked and yellowed tub for butter filled with birdseed that you would take outside and give to the robins the feeder was pillaged, you said, by the squirrels (you still filled it) until one day mid-afternoon birds waited for their daily feed you didn’t come, shuffled step and bird-feed in hand - decline cut short
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