Congratulations to Year 9 pupil, Kajal Vashista who has been awarded 2^nd Place in the Oxford University Outreach Creative Writing competition!

Kajal was one of over 325 young people who took part in the competition in which they were asked to select a photograph from the Manar al-Athar photo archive to inspire a piece of creative writing.

Kajal says she found the process difficult to start with as the brief was so open but once she took the decision to progress with a piece of poetry based on the Morrocan image that she chose, her ideas developed from there, leading to the creation of her piece ‘the same’.

The Year 9 Hill House pupil says that although she enjoys all types of study, the arts and creative subjects are her favourite and she plans to save the £75 prize money…or possibly buy herself a treat!

Kajal’s entry can be read here: the same | Faculty of Classics | Outreach (ox.ac.uk)