Springs girl wins R5 000
Springs resident Elizabeth Burns (17) came first in the annual Caxton Writing Competition.
She recently received her prize at Hirsch’s in Boksburg.
The Grade 12 Springs Girls’ High pupil loves writing and aims to study teaching with her focus being on English.,
Marie Burns, her mother, says her daughter was quite surprised to be the winner.
Elizabeth has previously entered the competition three times and came third in 2013 and second in 2014.
“She loves writing stories and poetry,” says Marie.
Elizabeth says the competition was a challenge but she enjoyed writing the article.
Read her winning article here.
“I am going to save the prize money until next year when I go to university,” says Elizabeth.
The creative writing competition has been running for four years and is sponsored by Hirsch’s Homestore.
Daniel Seleme, one of the facilitators of the competition, says the writers had to imagine themselves at 90 years old and sitting on front their porch looking back on their lives.
They had to work back from where they were at 90, to 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20 right down to the day they read about the online creative writing competition.
Daniel says the aim of the writing competition is to give school children the opportunity to let their talent shine.
Close to 200 entries were received and the winners were chosen via a judging panel,
Daniel says the competition has showcased great and unfounded talent in Gauteng.
“We urge all writers to continue following their dreams,” adds Daniel.
