Susan Mansfield introduces more winners of the National Galleries of Scotland annual creative writing competition

By The Newsroom
Published 19th Apr 2011, 13:44 BST
Updated 19th Apr 2011, 20:50 BST
EVERY year, hundreds of writers of all ages enter Inspired?– Get Writing!, the creative writing competitionfor poems and short stories inspired by art in theNational Galleries of Scotland.

This week, The Scotsman is pleased to publish the winners

in each of the five categories alongside the works which inspired

them: in today's paper you will find the winners in

the Under 12s, 15-18 years and Unpublished adults categories,

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as well a full listing of the winners, runners-up and special

merits, below.

Inspired? – Get Writing! is organised by the National Galleries

of Scotland in partnership with the English-Speaking

Union and the Scottish Poetry Library. the winners and runners-

up from the past two years will be published in an illustrated

book in the autumn, made possible by the support of

the Gordon Fraser Charitable trust.

The winners, runners-up and special merit entries in each

category will receive a public reading as part of a series of free

events tomorrow in the Hawthornden Lecture theatre at the

National Galleries Complex: Under 12s 10:30-11:30am; 12-14s

and 15-18s 1:30-3pm; Unpublished and published adults 5:30-

7pm.

• For more information see www.nationalgalleries.org/

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INSPIRED WINNERS IN FULL

Under 12 years

Winner: Jamie Arnaud

Runners-up: Keir Ogilvy, Catriona Gellatly

Special Merit: Scott Kinloch, Finn Mitchell, Erin Henderson, Shauney Boyd, Lucia McLaren, Kiran Kaur Chahal, Alice Prince-Tappe

12-15 years

Winner: Sarah Mcilwham

Runners-up: Phoebe Crehan, Selina Butler-Lowrie

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Special Merit: Savannah Connelly, Annie Higham, Liam Dias, Alana White, Caitlin Andrew, Jamie Seedhouse, Amy Bretherton

16-18 years

Winner: Calista Winstanley

Runners-up: James Gao, Iona Byrne

Special Merit: Zoe Storrie, Anna Green, Charlotte Singleton, Iain Brown, Cassandra Casson, Caitlin Girdwood, Georgia Gage, Rose Taylor, Elizabeth Morrison

Unpublished Adults

Winner: Aileen Ballantyne

Runners-up: Lemuel Jone, Joseph Reed

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Special Merit: Stewart Horn, Georgina Newcombe, Rachel Woolf, David Wilson, Jane Cooper, Susan Nickalls, Aileen Ballantyne

Published Adults

Winner: Josephine Brogan

Runners-up: Jean Taylor, James Roderick Burns

Special Merit: Anna K. Dickie, Ann MacKinnon, George McGilvray Wilson, Carey Morning, Ian Madden, Robert Richie, Colin Will

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