GDST Creative Writing Competition

Riana, from Year 8 has submitted this superb entry (see the link below) in the GDST Creative Writing Competition. The theme was New Rules for the future world’ and the GDST-wide competition will be judged by Sutton High School alumna, Rachel Hore.

Riana Kamdar GDST Creative Competition 2020

Rachel attended Sutton High School between 1970 and 1978, after which she read Modern History at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.  For many years she enjoyed a career as an editor for Harper Collins in London before moving with her family to Norwich, where she started to write fiction and taught publishing and creative writing part-time at the University of East Anglia.  Rachel is now a full-time writer, the author of ten novels, several of them Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers. A Place of Secrets and Last Letter Home were each selected by Richard and Judy for their Bookclub in association with WH Smith. The Glass Painter’s Daughter (2009) was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Novel of the Year.  A Gathering Storm (2011) was shortlisted for their Historical Novel of the Year. Her most recent novel is The Love Child, which follows the story of an adopted child in the 1930s who is searching for her birth mother.

We wish Riana all the best for the competition.