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Right Words: a competition for young writers
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A guest post from writer, translator and editor Daniel Hahn:
I’ve always been interested in writing. Being a writer, that’s not surprising – but I don’t mean that I’m interested in writing just for its own sake, but for the ways in which it can be useful beyond the merely enjoyable (and perhaps self-indulgent). The way in which encouraging people to write about a subject is to encourage them to pick it apart and think about it, process it, form views about it, reconstruct it in a way that makes sense to them and their world. Young people, especially.
Which is why for some years, I’ve been talking to friends at Human Rights Watch about setting up a writing competition for young people. What better way to get teenagers to wrestle with an important issue, we thought, than by inviting them to write about it? Read more
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