The competition, hosted by THE SOUTH in collaboration with Brighton and Hove Children’s Festival, Wildmoor Properties and Borders Bookshop, has proved a huge success.
We had over 500 entries from children in the Brighton and Hove area, so the decision wasn’t easy; but the judges have finally, from the two categories, chosen five winners and ten runners up. Names of the winners are listed below, as well as their winning entries: short pieces of poetry or prose writing on the theme of Air.
You’ll agree that some remarkable energy has gone into these pieces of writing; for which work on the public sculpture on Air Street – building story trails out of the winning work – is due to start soon!

Winners:
Joe Van Rietschoten
Ella McEwen Smith
Frankie Shinn
Frank Murr-Stevens
Dak Montana

Runners up:
Josie Lambert
Elisha Misra
Sam Harrison
Samina Speirs
Tamsyn Furneaux
Juno Joiner Brown
Elime Shrewbury
Ella Morris
Emilia Gibson
Michael Thomas

The winning school, for which a box-set of books is being provided by Borders Bookshop in Brighton, has also been announced: the winner is Somerhill Junior School in Hove.

Click here to read the winning entries

Write Around Air Street Workshops

Writers Rachel Rooney and Catherine Smith ran four writing workshops at the Jubilee Library, Brighton, to help some local children write some poems for the Write around Air Street competition.

Click here to read some of the poems