Here are the opening lines of some of the winning entries of the 2011 World Book Week Writing Competition. Congratulations to all those who took part and well done to the winners!
The Diary of a Frustrated Gothic Novelist
Day 1
School is running a competition to write a gothic novel. I reckon considering I have at least a couple of years more episodes of Vampire Diaries under my belt and got half way through Dorian Gray last year, I have a serious leg up on the competition. Also, having been through UCAS, I’m pretty good at getting myself all depressed and gloomy...
By Lottie Meggitt, Upper VI
Interview with a Vampire
On the 28th February I had the opportunity to interview my favourite vampire, Esme Cullen! (The only problem was it ended up being on the 29th!) She had travelled all the way from Forks, Washington to London. Her family wanted to hunt. Boy, did she look hungry!...
By Josie Comerford, Year II
If You Go Down To the Woods Today
Like models stood hundreds of trees, unsteady and fragile, limbs poking out at agonising angles. It appeared planned, structured to a degree of perfection but as they sang sad songs with the wind and the rain their more daunting effect on the land came alive. They seemed to sway in excruciating harmony with one another and yet they seemed oblivious to one another; loneliness was etched on their bark and falling leaves…
By Molly Kinnaird, Lower VI
The Ruin of Queen Margaret's School
It had been a long time since she had returned here. Still that place filled her with a now forgotten fear. She shivered- not with cold; she hadn’t felt that for a while- but with a memory of ghosts that lived in this place…
By Charlotte Cohen, Year III