We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2013 Charles Causley Poetry Competition.

The judges were delighted with both the quality and the quantity of the entries.  The winners all received book tokens and the first prize winner also has a writing workshop in school with their class.  They also read their poems on National Poetry Day at the Causley Trust event in Launceston.

Congratulations to all.

Category One – children aged 5-7

Theme: animals, creepy crawlies, sea creatures

Ist Prize
Lawrence Charrett-Dykes supported by Zofia for Evil Shark
Launceston Primary School

2nd Prize
Louise Ford for Dragonfly Poem
Blackwater Primary School

3rd Prize
Cammlo Tocher for Spider
Blackwater Primary School

Highly commended
Liam Hill for Jolly Octopus
Launceston Primary School
Category Two – children aged 8-11
Theme: Point of view, speaking in different voices, myths

1st Prize
Oceana Selman for The Young Man of Cury
Constantine Primary School

2nd Prize
Finn Broadley for Mary Drym
Kennall Vale Primary School

3rd Prize
Kian Gallagher for I am a Young Scotsman
Constantine Primary School

Highly Commended
Olivia Bennett for Noah’s Ark
Perran-ar-worthal Primary school

Highly Commended
Isabella Yabsley for What is White?
Gwinear Primary School
Category three – young people aged 12-16
Theme: growing up, leaving childhood behind, ghosts and memories

1st Prize
Sparkle Rice for Nightwalker
Richard Lander School

2nd Prize
Cortney Beer for My Mother Tells Me
Richard Lander School

3rd Prize
Lamorna Reid for The Ballad of the Mermaid of Zennor
Mounts Bay Academy

Highly Commended
Nathan Lawrence for Sand
Richard Lander School

Highly Commended
Charlotte Allum for The Ghostly Visions of Night
Richard Lander School