Everyone a Writer 2025
Our annual Everyone A Writer launch event took place on Thursday 10th July 2025. This year’s theme was “Time”.
Students’ poetry and artwork on this theme was shared, with students from Meadowhead and the primary schools reading their work aloud in front of an audience of proud parents and friends. Prizes were awarded in school year group categories, with a winner and two highly commended in each.
We also enjoyed the lively rap and audience participation from this year's guest poet, Spoz - an award winning performance poet (read more about him here). A copy of the published anthology was available for invited students to take home on the evening, and you can read the digital version below (or open the pdf at the foot of this page).
We ran two reward sessions during the day - for invited Y7 and Y8 students to work with Spoz on understanding rhyme, rhythm and rap and then performed their own impromptu poetry to their peers.
Congratulations to all of our winners and highly commended students!
Your hair as dark as night,
Now only the colour of a wispy cloud
Your lips where a softly shaded peach,
Now blank and cracked
Your eyes where a deep ocean I used to dive into,
Now a shallow puddle sits staring back
Your heart was a raging fire of love,
Now only goes thump thump thump
Your thoughts held vast secrets of gold,
Now never to be told.
Maisie Jackson
Y9 WINNER
Youth awakens with dreams so bright,
The world is new, the future alight.
Years run fast, like summer's flame,
Chasing ambitions, building a name.
Autumn comes with lessons learned,
The struggles fought and bridges burned.
Winter follows, quiet and slow,
As time moves on and spirits grow.
Yet in the quiet of winter’s night,
A spark returns, a future bright.
For though the past may fade and fall,
New dreams arise, standing tall.
Kayan Jaberi Khormooji,
Y8 WINNER
Time moves forward, never back,
A steady course, a measured track.
Moments flicker, bright yet brief
Like autumn leaves - a golden grief
The past is etched in memory’s glass,
The future hides behind the mass
Of choices made and paths unseen,
A fate unwritten, vast, serene.
The present hums, a fleeting spark,
A candle burning in the dark
To grasp it tight is but in vain,
Yet in its flow, we must remain
Pamela Fiona
Y7 WINNER
Congratulations to Jessica Jackson Y8, who won the prize for illustration - her design is on the front cover of the anthology.