Off to the Pushkin Prize

Off to the Archer's Hall in Edinburgh this morning for the awarding of the Pushkin Prize, a joint Scottish-Russian arts venture. S1 and S2 pupils in every Scottish local authority school are invited to send in their creative writing folios, and 10 from Scotland and 2 from Russia are selected to attend a 5 day creative writing course, this year with author Diana Hendry, at Moniack Mhor, Scotland's National Writing Centre.

So why did we go? Number 2 daughter won from Peebles High School this year (Peebles have a good creative record here) and we were really pleased to find out that she had won the overall First Prize! Much to her embarrassment, her winning short story had to be read out, but also, there will be an article in the Times, tomorrow or Wednesday.

With photographs.

Which is why standing on a rusty nail on Saturday night necessitating a visit to Sick Kids, finishing 15 minutes before the ceremony, was not what was needed. Check out the Times over the next couple of days perhaps for a bashful teenager on crutches...