Annual Doric prose and poetry winners announced
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The Buchan Heritage Society has announced its winners for this year's prose and poetry competition which celebrates the Doric language.
Held annually, the competition encourages young and old to explore the dialect of the north-east in a creative form, and sees entries in both traditional and contemporary topics.
As well as young winners from several local primary schools including Strichen and Fyvie, amongst the winners this year is well known Doric champion Deborah Leslie, whose entry The Quine in The Flooerie Frock was a short story written entirely in Doric which was awarded the first prize in the open prose category.
In it Anna unpacks a treasured dress that takes her spinning down the years to the summer of 1952 and a meeting of hearts at Aberdeen’s famous Beach Ballroom.
As she explained: "The story is about the challenges of getting older, loss, change, acceptance, and a love that endures. "
"I was delighted to find out that I had won first prize in the Buchan Heritage Society’s (Strichen Festival)prose writing competition."
Results were as follows -
Junior 10-12 Poetry - 1 Kate Forrest (Keith); 2 Arran Daniel (Strichen; 3 Evie Mutch (Strichen); HC Kyle Smith (Strichen); HC Tyler Chrystal (Strichen); HC Daja White (Strichen) and C Ava-Maree Moir (Strichen).
Intermediate 13-17 poetry - 1 Aaron Jones (Kemnay).
Open poetry - 1 Bob Mitchell (Haddington); 2 Aaron Gale (Huntly); 3 Hinru Hepbrin (Aberdeen); HC Blair Centre (Inverurie) and C Heather Gow (Peterhead).
Junior nine and under prose - 1 Zach Gracey (Fyvie); 2 Eilidh MacFarlane (Strichen); 3 Riley Romain (Fyvie); HC Jamie Simpson; C Ava Johnston (Strichen) and C Morven Baird (Strichen).
Intermediate 13-17 years prose - 1 Morgan Buchan (Banchory).
Open - 1 Deborah Leslie (Inverurie); 2 Douglas Hay (Whitehills); 3 Tracy Geddes (Fraserburgh); HC Bob Mitchell (Haddington) and C Mary Munro (Ballater).
