Make Doves Not War

By Writing on the Wall

Writing on the Wall’s Make Doves Not War creative writing competition was created as an exciting and engaging way to encourage children and young people between the ages of 8 – 16 to reflect on peace, war and conflict in the centenary year of the First World War.

The writing you will read in this book reflects just some of the diverse, truly powerful and emotive work entered around the idea, Make Doves Not War. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Writing on the Wall
• Release date: Nov 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781502298195

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MAKE DOVES NOT WAR

Contents

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Foreword               i

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Poetry 8-10 Year Olds     1

Flash Fiction 8-10 Year Olds  7

Poetry 11-13 Year Olds   13

Flash Fiction 11-13 Year Olds   31

Poetry 14-16 Year Olds   39

Flash Fiction 14-16 Year Olds   45

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Afterword    48

Foreword

Writing on the Wall’s Make Doves Not War creative writing competition was created as an exciting and engaging way to encourage children and young people between the ages of 8 – 16 to reflect on peace, war and conflict in the centenary year of the First World War. The writing you will read in this book reflects just some of the diverse, truly powerful and emotive work entered around the idea, Make Doves Not War. The success of this project and competition has exceeded our expectations and has been a very memorable experience for all of the staff, writers, teachers, children and young people involved. The competition has been wonderfully bookmarked between the launch of Make Doves Not War at the Bluecoat Chambers as part of the Writing on the Wall Festival in which we invited several schools to create messages of peace on paper doves and then charmingly, released real doves into the sky to say yes to peace, to the fantastic, celebration event to announce the winners as they are presented with a copy of this book to cherish. We would like to thank writers, Jon Mayhew, Cathy Cassidy and Sean Street for their involvement in the extremely difficult task of selecting the winners and especially to Jon Mayhew, who delivered a series of brilliant workshops to several schools in Merseyside for Make Doves Not War.

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