chiswick book festival young people’s poetry competition
The prizegiving for the 11th Young People’s Poetry Competition took place on Friday September 10th in St Michael & All Angels Church. The prizes were presented by Clare Balding (with winners above) with comments by the judges and a poem by head judge James Priestman. Thanks to supporters ChiswickW4.com, Nosy Crow, Walker Books and others.
You can read the 2021 winning poems here.
Year 3
First Prize
Molly Kennedy The Sea
Second Prize
Roxy Conlon Mae Jemison
Joint Third Prize
James Moody I Love Sport
Joint Third Prize
Zoe Elizabeth Phillips Courage
Commendation
George Connor Flowers
Year 4
First Prize
Udval Myagmarsuren Who am I?
Joint Second Prize
Ana McMillan Imagine
Joint Second Prize
Constance Colligan I am a Cloud
Third Prize
Diana Morrow Waiting
Commendation 1
Safa Mariam Vohra My Hamster Pretzel
Commendation 2
Luca Albano Deep in the Mariana’s Trench
Year 5
First Prize
William Yu Antarctica
Second Prize
Oscar Legge Voila LA DS
Third Prize
Aoibhe Lawton Bluebell
Commendation 1
Edward Watts Tennis
Commendation 2
Nell Skipper The Sky
Commendation 3
George Wells My Grandfather
Year 6
First Prize
Ben Penny The Prisoner
Second Prize
Fiona Sweeney Time
Joint Third Prize
Joseph James Cary A Drop of Water
Joint Third Prize
Aarush Choudhary Chance
Commendation 1
Ava Graham My Paradise
Commendation 2
Annabel Moody Never give up on your dreams
Commendation 3
Marina Richardson The Balloon Man
Year 7
First Prize
Homare Yamada Tomorrow
Joint Second Prize
Kate Story Emotion
Joint Second Prize
Amba Sehgal Your Trust
Joint Third Prize
Rayan Warsama Empty Room
Joint Third Prize
Celia Harvey Mum
Commendation 1
Arthur Hayes Summer Sun
Commendation 2
Megan Jamieson Fire
Commendation 3
Mariam Iman Siblings
You can read the 2020 winning poems here.
And the 2019 winners here.