A second year pupil at Harris Academy in Dundee has recently won a creative writing competition for first and second-year pupils in Scotland and St Petersburg, Russia.  The 13-year-old wrote a science fiction story and a poem for the Pushkin Prize competition, set up to commemorate Russian poet and writer Alexander Pushkin.

From hundreds of entries, he was judged a winner and now is looking forward to his prize, a week's creative writing course at the Moniack Mhor Foundation Writers' Centre near Inverness.  Running from May 19 to 23 the course will give the winner a chance to meet winning pupils from both countries and take part in tutorials with writers Katherine Macphail and Gerry Cambridge. 

(Text from The Courier, Dundee with pupil name omitted.)