Read the winning entry in full here
2009, one of our Sixth Formers won the prestigious Athenaeum Award. 2010, despite countywide competition, that Award was once more won by a student at The Belvedere Academy; Nneka Cummins
This top literary competition is run by the Liverpool Athenaeum in conjunction with the Daily Post, Radio Merseyside and Liverpool City Council. Open to writers aged between 16 and 19, entrants were invited to write about how a soldier from today might interpret Wilfred Owen’s Great War poem, Dulce et Decorum Est.
Nneka’s short story Forever at War, about a soldier retuned home from Iraq, took the top prize of £1000 at a special ceremony in the Athenaeum.
Nneka was awarded £100 for the school library and a year’s honorary membership of the Athenaeum. Her story was published in the Liverpool Daily Post and will be broadcast on Radio Merseyside.
Miss L. Murphy, librarian and Publicity Officer.