Given Words Poetry Competition | Results

Our Term 3 senior group of Russley Writers took up the challenge to write poems for the Given Words Poetry Competition.  Our poems had to include the words  justice, endure, pair, lightfast, hold.

It was super exciting to send our poems to Spain, where Charles Olsen, director of Given Words (and one of the judges) is based.

Our Russley Writers' poems were up against some very stiff competition, in the Under 16 category. It was great to have a line from one of our writers' poems quoted in the judge's comments:

Lamenting that we don’t publish all the poems that we receive, Sophia highlighted some gorgeous lines from poems that did not make it in this time, such as: . . . 'justice slips off of me like a stick of butter' (Daisy Forster, 12)

Whilst we had no prize-winners this time, we are thrilled to see two of this term's Russley Writers' Club poets had their poems selected by the judges to be published on the Given Words website! 

Congratulations to Ila R and Jharred!

You can read the judge's selection of favourites here.

Well done to everyone who took the leap and entered. Share your poems, they are brilliant and deserve an audience! Keep your beautiful poems somewhere safe . . . you might find another opportunity to submit them elsewhere in the future. Finally, KEEP on WRITING! I can't wait to read more of your brilliant creations!