Kildare student wins writers' competition
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The competition was organised by Naas Rotary Club
Naas Rotary Club are multifaceted in their approach to community-based projects and one of the most recent initiatives is the Young Writers Competition.
This competition is supported by International Rotary Club; an ideal forum to actively encourage young writers to explore and discover their creativity and imagination. Naas Rotary Club invited entries for this year’s annual Rotary Ireland Young Writers Competition from the local schools and some very interesting prose and poetry were submitted.
The competition was open to students aged 14 years to 17 years. The theme of this year’s competition was ‘Happiness in Nature’.
The primary aim of this initiative is to encourage the students to become aware of their creative writing skills and this initiative provides them with an opportunity to use their creativity, imagination, and interpret the theme as broadly as the young writer wishes.
The students were able to present their work as non-fiction; drawn from personal experience or allow their imaginative skills weave a tale of fiction.
This year’s theme ‘Happiness in Nature’ provided the students with an opportunity to express what the theme means to them and in turn generated a lot of interesting ideas.
The coordinator of the project, representing Naas Rotary Club, contacted the local Secondary schools in Naas and other schools in the county.
The competition was aimed primarily at Transition Year students; an interesting English assignment during the year.
The winning entry was submitted by Marisa Funken, a student in St Mary’s College Naas. Her prose entitled ‘Happiness in Nature’ was awarded first place for her creative use of language and vivid imagery.
Her entry was submitted to compete at National level and Naas Rotary Club was delighted to receive the notification that Marisa’s entry was awarded second place in the Senior Competition.
This was a great achievement and all the members of Naas Rotary Club wish Marisa every success as she continues to enjoy and explore her creative writing in the future.
Naas Rotary Club wish to thank all those students, who submitted entries and would encourage all the students to appreciate and enjoy their journey through a world of creativity and imagination and continue to write.