Queens Park Community School

“Queen’s Park Community School is the second school for which I have been the First Story Writer-in-Residence, running a creative writing group each week over the course of a year, and helping it to produce an anthology . I am beginning to feel a little experienced – a mistake, because each group has a way of taking you back to the beginning, and heading off in a different direction.”

Louisa Young, First Story Writer-in-Residence at Queens Park Community School

I hate people. They throw us about, pile us up like we were cardboard boxes and make us stand on and get wet in all sorts of horrid things like crunchy leaves, puddles of water, crisps and ants.

But worst of all is their smell. They shove themselves inside us, fiddle around with our strings so we can be ‘tighter’ or ‘looser’ and then expect us to put up with all this while smelling like the pits of hell. But next time I’ve got a little surprise planned. I’ve been working on it with the sofa for a long time…

“Shoes” by Fred, a student at Queens Park Community School

And Danny won the Wicked Young Writers’ Award 2010 with his story ’Ethel’ which was chosen from over 3000 entries.

Her name was pinned to the end of her bed, nestled among the charts and graphs that formed her label. On her table was a small pile of belongings. A photograph of her wedding. A diamond earring. A small golden figure, an elephant mid charge. Most precious of all was the rusted shoe buckle. She had held onto it all day, refusing to let go. As the day wore on, her grip weakened. It still made her blood boil to think that, when someone came to collect her battered old things from the side of her empty hospital bed in the morning, they would miss the most important object.

 

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