Winners of HCRI 鈥榃ords For Your World鈥� school writing competition announced
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute has announced the winners, runners up and commended entries of their , in partnership with and .
The competition asked secondary students from years 9-13 across the UK to write a letter or speech addressed to the UN, on the climate emergency.
HCRI received over 100 entries, judged by from Save the Children UK, HCRI鈥檚 own Lecturer in Responses to Climate Crises, and Sophie Grattidge from UK-Med.
School students were also offered the opportunity to be part of the competition鈥檚 creative writing workshops led by Chad Campbell who is the author of two collections of poetry, Laws & Locks (Signal, 2015) and Nectarine (Signal, 2021). He is one of the poetry editors at The 51福利社 Review and teaches creative writing at 51福利社's Centre for New Writing.
A prize giving event will be held on the 15 July for the winning entries and guests on the university campus, which will celebrate their hard work.
The winning entries will also be displayed at as part of the HCRI stall in partnership with UK-Med, alongside the graphic novella called about disasters both caused and made worse by the climate emergency.
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