“The writing competitions are a highlight in our academic year, giving us an insight into the excellent work being done by sixth form students and their teachers. We had an unprecedented number of entries to the competitions this year and were struck by both the high quality of students’ writing and the range of creative approaches that they adopted. Congratulations to all who took part!”
Dr Catherine Smale, Admissions Tutor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
01 May 2024
Winners of A-Level writing competitions announced
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures announced the winners of its annual A-Level writing competitions, with the successful writers seeing their work published in the Department’s student magazines.
Sixth form students from across the UK took part in a workshop and prize-giving ceremony for the competitions in Comparative Literature, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, with a winner and runner-up for each category.
The winning entries have been published in the spring 2024 editions of the Department’s student magazines: Comp Lit Mag (Comparative Literature), Des nouvelles, Héloïse? (French), Königspost (German), and Sobramesa (Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan).
More than 150 students took part in the competitions this year as part of the Department’s outreach programme , which aims to show what it's like to study languages and literatures at university.
If you are a secondary school teacher and would like to join our mailing list to hear more about our events and competitions for schools, please contact Dr Catherine Smale, Admissions Tutor for the Department, on catherine.smale@kcl.ac.uk.
Comparative Literature, on legacies of colonialism
Winner: Robyn O’Reilly
Runner-up: Tauhida Kharam
French, on universalism and difference in contemporary France
Winner: Sophia Ravichandran
Runner-up: Daniella Osasumwen Smart Omoruyi
Runner-up: Joseph Layton-Smith
German, on the 25th anniversary of the Euro
Winner: Freya Chapman
Runner-up: Jacob Mundy
Runner-up: Reuben Wood
Highly commended: Ella Dehnugara
Spanish & Portuguese, on the topic of parallel worlds
Winner: Luke Roberts
Runner-up: Katherine Dixon
Runner-up: Assavari Kaur
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