Multi-award-winning author for young people, Catherine Macphail is confirmed as one of two professional writers tutoring Pushkin Prizewinners in 2012.
Pushkin Prizewinners’ Week is a unique creative writing experience awarded to ten young writers. Held at Moniack Mhor, the Arvon Foundation Writers’ Centre near Inverness, every May, the course offers the ten selected writers – together with two from a parallel competition in St Petersburg – to work on their writing with professional writers.
This year’s tutors are the poet and writer Gerry Cambridge, and Catherine MacPhail, the best-selling author of such prizewinning books as Run, Zan, Run, Roxy’s Baby and Grass
The Pushkin Prizes are open to every child in their
1st and 2nd year of secondary school in Scotland.
Folios – comprising three pieces of writing on a subject of the pupil’s choice, and in a genre of the pupil’s choice – should be submitted by December 16th 2011.
Information about The Pushkin Prizes in Scotland, now in their 24th year, was sent to every secondary school in the country in early September.
For further details of previous Pushkin Prizewinners’ Weeks and information about how to enter the Prizes, please visit The Pushkin Prizes website – www.pushkinprizes.net
Or contact the Director, Lindsey Fraser at lindsey.fraser@tiscali.co.uk
