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Newham Bookshop announces
the Liz Osborne Writing Prize 2016

Liz Osborne worked as our children’s bookseller for two years between 2012 and 2014. She was also a long-term Newham resident and loved living in our vibrant multi-cultural borough.

Sadly Liz passed away a year ago and she left some money which her mother would like to be used to encourage young writers. What better way to remember Liz than have a lasting prize for writing to celebrate life in Newham?

This competition is open to all pupils in Years 4, 5 and 6 in Newham primary schools. Each entry may be no more than 500 words in prose or poetry on the subject of

“Why I love living in Newham”

The prizes will be in the form of vouchers which may be used to buy books at Newham Bookshop. There will be prizes for the pupils submitting the best entries, and prizes for their schools, as follows:

 

Pupil

School

Winner

£30

£250

Runner-up

£20

£150

Entries submitted by a Newham primary school may be sent by post or as a PDF file attached to an email to info@newhambooks.co.uk. The closing date for entries is Friday 17 June at 4 pm. The winners will be announced on Tuesday 28 June.

The judges will be three Newham residents: John Newman, Newham Bookshop’s specialist children’s bookseller, Carel Buxton, an executive headteacher of primary schools in Redbridge, and Rosie Williams, a primary school teacher in Redbridge.

⚫ We are sending letters about this competition to all Newham primary school headteachers and English / literacy co-ordinators.

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Writing and Reading Newham
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Interested in learning more about Newham Bookshop and some of the people connected with it? We have four lessons for classroom or family use developed from On the Record’s oral history project centered around Newham Bookshop, Writing and Reading Newham. Click here for full details.


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Newham Bookshop is LoveReading’s
Bookshop of the Month

We are proud that Newham Bookshop is LoveReading’s Bookshop of the Month. The article features a Q&A with Vivian Archer, which you can read here.


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