Young Writer Competition 2018

           YOUNG WRITERS COMPETITION 2018

The Rotary Club of Alton organised, as part of a Nationwide Rotary Young Writers competition, the local round for schools in the Alton Area.

Six schools took part: St Lawrence CE Alton, Andrews Endowed CE Holybourne, Wootey Junior Alton, Selborne CE Primary, The Butts School Alton and Bentley Primary School

From all the contributions received, the top 3 from each school were submitted to a panel of judges led by local author Valerie Wilding (My Story: Road to War) supported by Martin Korda, writer of the UK No1 box video game in 2017 “FIFA 18”, and Alton Library Team Manager Ginny Arnison.

Submissions were judged in early March and a special awards tea party for pupils, parents and teachers was arranged by the Rotary Club of Alton at the Alton House Hotel on Thursday 8^th March 2018.

After enjoying the food and drinks the presentation to prize winners was made by Valerie Wilding.

From each school a first, second and third prize of a certificate and a book token was awarded. Valerie made complimentary comments on the quality of the writing and imagination shown in the submissions.  She invited the winning pupils to read their texts.

The overall winner was from Selborne Primary School and will now go forward to the District Competition of Rotary to decide who represents Hampshire and the IOW at the National Final. Update - Our overall winner was runner-up in the district competition. 

Alton Rotary President Tony Phillips thanked all the participants in the competition and also the judges, Valerie Wilding, Martin Korda and Ginny Arnison.  Rotarian Peter Johnson was also thanked as the organiser of the whole event.