The Orwell Youth Prize pilot year has ended with a Celebration Day at Pembroke College, Oxford. Many superb entries were submitted from fifteen different schools across the UK following writing workshops led by some of the nation’s most respected writers and journalists. The judging panel, comprised of Professor Jean Seaton and Professor Brian Cathcart, selected six winners from a shortlist of fifteen entries.
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Winners of the Orwell Youth Prize 2015: Year groups 9, 10, 11
Lucy Thynne, age 14: ‘Anorexia Joined Our School Today’ (Poem)
Qianyun Liang, age 15: ‘Repercussions of Deceit’ (Short Story)
Owen Dearman, age 16: ‘Figures of Grey’ (Poem)
Rick Edwards interviews some of our winners
Winners of the Orwell Youth Prize 2015: Year groups 12, 13
Sam Hill, age 18: ‘Was Scargill Right?’ (Essay)
James Sweetland, age 16: ‘Tribunal fees are a silent bedroom tax’ (Essay)
Vidya Ramesh, age 18: ‘Will you starve that they be better fed?’ (Short Story / Play)
Rick Edwards interviews some of our winners
2015 Shortlisted Runners-Up
Shadi Fakouri
Lauryn Lambourne
Mollie Burns and Tasha Mann
Georgia Carly
Charlotte Skeggs
Tina Lepova
Hannah Macey and Ellie Macey
Rachel Sanders
Joseph Krol
2015’s shortlisted writers for the Orwell Youth Prize