Naas student wins Rotary Club writing competition
Michelle Furey of Rotary Club Ireland, competition coordinator Stephanie Bergin, competition winner Eliseba Tomy Thomas, prinicipal Mark Dowling and Korahiza Macari Byrne, incoming president of Naas Rotary Club
NAAS Rotary Club organise a variety of community-based projects and one of the most recent initiatives was a young writer competition.
The competition encourages young writers to explore and discover their creativity and imagination. The club invited entries for this year’s annual Rotary Ireland Young Writer 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 ‘ Wonderful Water’.
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 ‘Wonderful Water ’presented the students with an opportunity to express what the theme means to them and in turn, generated a lot of interesting ideas.
The co-ordinator of the project from the local 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 Eliseba Tomy Thomas, a student in St Mary’s College Naas. Her poem entitled was awarded first place for her creative use of language and vivid imagery.
Eliseba mentioned that her English teacher Bronwyn Doyle has been a great source of encouragement and inspiration. Her entry will now compete at national level and Naas Rotary Club wish Eliseba every success in the competition and as she continues to enjoy and explore her creative writing in the future.
Naas Rotary Club also awarded two commendation prizes to Saoirse Mc Conn and Erin Mc Ardle: both students attending St Farnan’s Post Primary School in Prosperous.
They both submitted very interesting and creative prose.
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.
