Author Archives: Miss A Masih

Click below for a list of recommended reads by Mrs Griffiths:

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/programmes-and-campaigns/bookbuzz/students/bookbuzz-books/

About the Competition

The Tower Poetry Competition offers the UK’s most valuable prize for young poets, and is open to students between 16-18 years of age who are educated in the UK. The competition is run by Christ Church college, Oxford.

The competition is judged anonymously by two judges, who are different each year, and Peter McDonald, the current Christopher Tower Student. Each year the theme is chosen with the intention of giving entrants free rein to interpret it as widely as they like.

The competition is free to enter, and offers a top prize of £3000. Schools of prizewinners are awarded an additional £150, intended for investment in further study of poetry and literature.

How to Enter
The 21st Christopher Tower Poetry Competition, the UK’s most valuable prize for young poets, has opened for entries, and this year students between 16-18 years of age are challenged to write a poem on the theme of ‘The Key’.
The closing date for entries is noon on 1 March 2021.
Winners will be notified on 25 March 2021.
Submit your entry using the form below. You will need to create an account in order to submit your entry.

https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/research-and-academia/enter-tower-poetry-competition

The 2020 National Poetry Competition is open for entries until midnight 31 October 2020.

Start your 2020 entry by following this link

National Poetry Day will take place on Thursday 1st October 2020, and the theme is Vision. We’ve selected a handful of poems linking to the theme, from poets past and present, to help you See It Like a Poet. Print them out and stick them on your walls or windows: we’ve cleared the permissions and these are all for sharing on and around the Day! #shareapoem.

https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/poems/poems/

See details below of this fantastic play writing competition! Lots of prizes up for grabs…see the link below:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1SCKS8VmFFGvyggKbqGGyds/as-you-write-it-your-play-on-stage

Please send me entries by 5pm today: [email protected]

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

The museum of Charles Dickens are very excited to be releasing the first of a new collection of colourised photographs of the great author, to mark his 150th anniversary of his death today. He is famous for writing the novella ‘A Christmas Carol’ as well as Oliver Twist’ and many other famous novels.

The image shows Charles Dickens in 1859, aged forty-seven, with a warm expression, looking directly at the camera.

See details of a virtual online event to mark his anniversary here.

:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-tour-a-dickens-of-a-city-tickets-106588099876

Here is a taster of Scrooge’s lonely rooms from ‘A Christmas Carol’.

http://footprintsoflondon.com/2017/09/scrooges-lonely-rooms/