09 November 2021
Posted by Tabby Hayward
NEVER SUCH INNOCENCE (AGAIN)
This week we were looking at the brilliant Never Such Innocence competition, which this year has the theme of 'Life After Conflict'.
We started by looking at pictures of war memorials in Dorset and Hampshire and thinking about what they represent, why they're here and why they might look the way that they do. Using this as a starting point the young writers wrote their own pieces about a war memorial, which could be in this world or another, and commemorating any war.
Next, we looked at the key words of this year's competition: Resolve. Recover. Reflect. Rebuild. Remember.
We looked at their definitions and thought about how their meanings had overlaps but were all subtly different.
Next, we used the competition's own resources as a starting point to start researching various ideas about life after conflict, historically, now, and around the world, and used this research as a starting point for our own pieces. Many of these are developing really excitingly, and we will revisit this competition in the new year to finish up submissions before the deadline!
Archive
Storytelling and Escalation or Rising Action
Junior Writers Club Acrostic Poem
Notes on Intention for MAST Collective - Year 3 - Facilitation Focus
Earthquakes & Dominoes - MAST Collective Blog #4
SUPER MARIO AND POP CULTURE POEMS
Receptionists & Inky Voids - MAST Collective Blog #3
Saying No and saying YES on National Poetry Day!
There's a Dragon in the Wardrobe...
House Warming Party (The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known) - MAST Collective Blog #2
Intern Blog 5 - The Publishing Process
POEMS TO SOLVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS
On The Streets With Theresa Lola
Intern Blog 4 - The Internship Journey
NEW DIRECTIONS, STARTING SMALL - THE ORWELL YOUTH PRIZE
LIGHTHOUSES, HOPE AND METAPHORS
on workshop and transformations: frogs, lions, and the duck that becomes a larder...
Poetry Ambassadors - Interview with April Egan
Intern Blog 1 - Finding a Voice
World Poetry Day: Fluffypunk and the Invisible Women
On Being a Writer: A Conversation by Beth Phillips & Sam Morton
Poetry Ambassadors - Interview with Kaycee Hill
UNHEARD VOICES: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, AND STORIES OF CONFLICT
