Ella Standage, from Alleyn’s School, Dulwich, London was awarded the £3,000 first prize for her poem Rosetta in the seventeenth Christopher Tower Poetry Competition.
The theme of this year’s contest was Stone, and the judges were Vahni Capildeo and Sarah Howe. Over 1,000 entrants, born between 1998 and 2001, took part.
The winner of the second prize of £1,000 was Annie Fan, of Rugby High School, Warwickshire, with Qianling Stele, and the third prize winner, Rachel Oyawale, of Woldingham School, Surrey, won £500 with If I Gave You a Stone. Their schools received £150 each.