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October winners 2024 – young writers
In our October competition, we asked for stories featuring a plant pot.
Congratulations to the winners of our October competition.
Feeling inspired? Have a go at this month's prompt.
Young writers (12–18) winner
Simon Cockling, 15
Barb had been on the window ledge.
(Barbed spines)
Flowering pink in the Summer.
Gone by Winter.
No watering.
Doesn't need love.
Googly eyes.
Humanised and objectified; Aestheticised and commodified.
The trophy on the window ledge
For a white-thumbed 9-5.
Existence for existence's sake.
Blue light makes for blue plants.
Young writers (5–11) winner
Tate Steeves-Wright, 11
A marigold sat in an ornate plant pot, it was dry and wilted. Yet it was very well kept, it never grew. The answer would only come when the clock struck midnight. Under the soft light of the moon the pot sprouted legs, and a belligerent beast wandered off.