The winning poems in the Writ on the Wall 2010 festival competition have now been selected by the judges – poets Mary Robinson and Andrew Forster, and writer and festival organiser Jim Eldridge.
Category A (ages: 7-11):
1st: The Story of the Missing Tree by Matthew Wickes, Burton in Kendal.
2nd: The Grand National by Jessica Swan, Holme Cultram School, Abbeytown.
3rd: Sea by Thomas Graham, Bowness on Solway Primary School.
Category B (ages: 12- 17)
1st: Kingfisher by Jo Simpson, Queen Katherine School, Kendal.
2nd: Every Single Dirty Inch by Jessie Coleman, Queen Katherine School, Kendal.
Joint 3rd: Everything Has A Story by Alan Bainbridge, Longcroft, nr Kirkbride; Cassandra by Danielle Oliver, Queen Katherine School, Kendal.
Honourable mention:
Who Said Poetry Has To Be Serious by George Dunt.
Category C (18 years +)
1st: Whispers in the Wall by Joan Gooding, Wetheral.
2nd: Anniversary by Alexandra Morgan, Cockermouth.
3rd: Home by Rick Thomas, Brackenthwaite, Wigton.
The prizes (of Book Tokens) will be presented to the winning poets at a special event on Saturday 10 July, to be hosted by Gordon Swindlehurst and BBC Radio Cumbria.
There is also an exciting new addition to the festival programme. 16-year old Kate Moloney from Penrith, winner of the Cumbria section of the Crime Writers Association Young Crime Writers Award 2010, will be in conversation with Jim Eldridge at 10.00am on Sunday 11 July at the Lindow Hall. This is a great opportunity to hear (and ask questions of) an exciting young writer at the very start of her career.
Tickets are still available for the Festival, which includes appearances and sessions by Cumbrian poets Christopher Pilling, Mary Robinson, Jeremy Over, Andrew Forster and Penny Boxall; local history legend, Denis Perriam; Steve Matthews on “The Spectral Army of Souther Fell”; Robin Acland on the Wordsworths, Robin Brown from the famous Roman re-enactors, Legio VIII Augustus MGV; New Zealand photographer, Sam Henderson; film-maker Russell Cherrington, graphic novelist Nick Dodds; and award-winning scriptwriter and novelist Jim Eldridge.
Full details of the Festival programme of events, and a booking form, can be found at www.writfest.co.uk. Tickets cost just £5.00 for a one-day ticket (either Saturday or Sunday) or £8.00 for daytime events for the whole weekend.
In addition, there are two evening events. The festival opens on Friday night with a ceilidh with Thrice Brewed (admission £3.50; licensed bar), and on Saturday night there will be a Music & Words Concert, featuring the wonderful Nelson Thomlinson School Big Band and the acclaimed The Solway Band, plus other musicians and poets. Admission is just £2.50.
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