Creative Writing Competition 2010

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2010 Concern Creative Writing Competition.

There were almost 700 entries from 28 countries around the world for this year’s competition.

Inspiring responses

Entrants were asked to write the speech they would give to the UN on the Millennium Development Goal of their choice. We had hundreds of well researched, inspirational and thought provoking speeches. The judges were truly impressed and faced a difficult task in selecting the winning entries.

Junior category (12-15 years)
1st prize: Megan Ross
2nd prize: Rory Copeland
3rd prize: Ciara O’Sullivan

Senior category (16-18 years)
1st prize: Emer Jones
2nd prize: Peadar O Lamhna
3rd prize: Joint winners: Sarah Foley and Nancy Jane Carragher

Adult category
1st prize: Gerard Foley
2nd prize: Flynn Coleman
3rd prize: Margaret Casserly

Special prize for the best entry from a third level student goes to Soumitra Subinaya.

UN summit

The winning entries, along with selected highlights from other entries, will be compiled and published in a book. This book will be presented to the Irish delegation travelling to the UN summit in New York this September. We have no doubt it will inspire our UN delegates to fulfill their commitments to the Millennium Development Goals.

You can read this year’s winning entries here.

See last year’s book which was called Dear President Obama.