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Kate Ennis (centre) with Cecily Blench (left) and Holly Delafield (right).
Hereford Sixth Form College Students Take Top Prizes
12th July 2007
Three Hereford Sixth Form College students: Kate Ennis, Cecily Blench and Holly Delafield have shown themselves to be dab hands with a creative pen – or word processor – by taking the top three prizes in this year’s Shirley Conybeare Award.
Kate took the top prize of £100, whilst Cecily finished in second place, and Holly came a joint third along with Gabrielle Brace from Herefordshire College of Art and Design.
The Award bearing Shirley Conybeare’s name was set up to commemorate the popular and well-respected Senior Lecturer in English at Hereford College of Art and Design and, when Shirley died in 1987, her students, colleagues and friends together with members of her family set up a Trust Fund and the Award in her memory.The Award was established ‘in recognition of her sixteen years as a Lecturer at the College and as a tribute to her humanity, intellectual curiosity and boundless energy’.
The Shirley Conybeare Award is for creative writing, of any style, and is open to students studying in any college in Hereford.
Award winner, Kate Ennis, who is planning a career in science, said: “I have always loved writing stories and am absolutely delighted to find that I have won this competition.”