Ghada Award for Young Writers/Second Annual Contest 2011

*Evocative and gentle prose. You take a simple memory and bring it to life with careful descriptive prose. This is what good writing does. A very promising voice.

*Well written, articulate and powerful writing capturing the contradictions and conflicts of modern life.

*Despite a rather blunt ending, a well written, passionate and intelligent essay is constructed. I would have liked to hear more detail of Sudan itself -the culture, the landscape to help contextualise the argument a little more fully. Nevertheless, there is a strong personal voice here which is to be commended.

*Some powerful phrases and a sensitive voice is emerging here. It needs reigning in - simplify to ensure the purity of the emotion is not lost

*This is a very difficult piece to write. To be , or to write as one, grieving for a sibling so loved and so missed. A brave and emotional response that really captures the feelings of powerlessness and loss.

*A funny , bittersweet story. It capture the "teen" voice quite well here. My advice- read lots of examples of this genre (Jaqueline Wilson is the most famous) and watch how she sets the scene and how she structures her dialogue.

*A funny, lively opening to a novel

*You record some powerful messages here. I think they would benefit from a tighter control of the form and structure

*A well written if rather bleak reading

*A sweet tale - every girl's dream -to be rescued.

*A brave effort at a poetic form. Keep reading poetry to improve your own style

*A good try which brings to life something that we take for granted in the West - education.




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The above are comments to our Young Creative Writers of English texts participating
in the secong GAFYW contest.
Written by member of evaluation committee Ms Maggie Hazeldine.

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