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Winners Of The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition 2023 Announced!

2023 has been a fantastic year for The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition (QCEC).

Celebrating the Commonwealth Year of Youth, the theme, 'A Youth-Powered Commonwealth,’ asked QCEC entrants to explore the power young people hold within the global community and to consider how this power can be harnessed to make a meaningful impact in the world.

In the 140th year of this competition, the world’s oldest international writing competition for schools, we were delighted to receive a record-breaking 34,924 entries , an increase of almost 9,000 entries on the previous year, and from 50 Commonwealth countries, the most in the history of the competition!

This year’s top participating countries included Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Malaysia, the Maldives, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom.

In this special year, we are delighted to announce the winners of The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition:

• Senior Winner: Miss Siddhi Deshmukh aged 17 from Mumbai, India for her piece titled, ‘An Angel that Burns’.
• Junior Winner: Miss Shreeya Sahi aged 12 from Panchkula, India for her entry titled, ‘Dear Little Prince’.
• Senior Runner-up: Miss Yong Sin Kong aged 15 from Kluang, Malaysia for her entry titled, ‘Observations made at a Local Kopitam, 13th of March, 2023’.
• Junior Runner-up: Miss Mitali Ragtah aged 11 from New Delhi, India for her piece titled, ‘Water Girl of India’.

We look forward to meeting these talented young writers in London next month for Winners Week and to celebrating their writing during a special Award Ceremony at Buckingham Palace hosted by Her Majesty Queen Camilla!

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The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2023

We are delighted to share that the 2023 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition is open to entries for writers aged under 18, who are nationals or residents of all Commonwealth countries and territories, as well as residents of Hong Kong, Ireland, and Zimbabwe.

The competition asks entrants to explore the power young people hold within the global community and consider how this power can be harnessed to make a meaningful impact in the world.

• Top prize : the top two winners from each category will be awarded with a trip to London for a week of educational and cultural events, culminating in a special awards ceremony at a royal palace.
• Awards : All successful entries will receive a certificate of participation and a number of entrants will receive Gold, Silver and Bronze awards for excellence in writing.

For full details, please refer here .

Enquiries about submissions should be directed to the Royal Commonwealth Society, please always refer to their website for complete details and information. 

Please note, this prize is run by the Royal Commonwealth Society, not the Commonwealth Foundation.

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Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition winners meet Camilla and visit the Evening Standard

T he Queen praised "brilliant" young writers as they visited Buckingham Palace - after first taking a tour of the Evening Standard offices.

Camilla met the winners and runners-up of the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay competition on Thursday, saying the 140-year-old contest, had brought "communities across the Commonwealth closer together".

This year's participants in the world's oldest international writing competition for schools, aged between 11 and 17 from India and Malaysia, were asked to write on the subject of "a youth-powered Commonwealth".

Extracts from the winners' essays were read out at the palace by literary figures and actors including Dame Joanna Lumley, Sir Ben Okri and Sanjeev Bhaskar.

During her speech, avid reader Camilla described how Queen Victoria was also a "passionate lover of literature".

"She was particularly fond of the works of many authors, including Jane Austen, Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte and Lewis Carroll.

"Legend has it that, having admired Alice In Wonderland, the Queen wrote to Lewis Carroll to request first editions of any of his other books.

"By return of post she received a copy of his Syllabus Of Plane Algebraic Geometry. Probably not what she was after," the Queen said.

Praising the entrants, Camilla said: "Well done to each and every one of you, you are quite brilliant and I have, as ever, enormously enjoyed reading your entries."

Senior winner Siddhi Deshmukh, 17, from Mumbai, and junior winner Shreeya Sahi, 12, from Panchkula in India, visited the Standard newsroom on Wednesday alongside runner ups Yon Sin Kong,15, from Johor in Malaysia and Mitali Ragtah, 11, from New Delhi.

They took a tour of the Standard led by editor emeritus Doug Wills, who also gave them a walk through the newspaper’s history, and they joined a journalist workshop where they spoke about their entries.

Senior winner Siddhi, 17, explained how her poem, 'An Angel That Burns', was inspired by a Joan of Arc painting depicting Joan burnt at the stake, saying "I connected that with other wars and how other children have been affected by them. As for the language in my poem, I was inspired by Browning and Tennyson who I have learnt about in literature lessons, but I'm still trying to figure out my own style..."

She added: "My school made me realise this competition was a big deal and celebrated it after the news was revealed to me across Zoom."

Her father Sachin Deshmukh remarked that her accomplishments were "out of this world, not just for us but for the state we belong to and our country ( India )."

Junior winner Shreeya, who toys with the idea of becoming a food critic one day, wrote her piece on The Little Prince after reading the book several times. She spent four laborious days on her ode to the character that has inspired her. She said: “And just like that it clicked. I found my hero.”

Shreeya said she was "pretty excited" to meeththe Queen, saying "it’s kind of unbelievable."

Inspired by the everyday life of the people around her, 15-year-old Yong Sin Kong wrote her piece, ‘Observations made at a Local Kopitiam' on observing the people in her hometown.

She said: “It's mostly just a mixture of my experiences in my hometown and exploring my culture.”

She said it “still feels like a dream,” even after two months of finding out she had been selected as senior runner up of the competition.

She spoke of actress Michelle Yeoh , a fellow Malaysian who she admires and her favourite film, The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson, which she said has inspired the structure of her piece and encouraged her to consider a future career in journalism.The visit to the Standard was one of several this week for the group who also managed to tour Bloomsbury, the House of Commons where they watched a debate in the Houses of the Parliament, and the Royal Shakespeare company. Their time in London been described as "exciting" with various trips they hope will inspire their futures as potential writers of fiction and journalists.

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The Queen has praised “brilliant” young writers during a reception for the winners of this year’s Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition at Buckingham Palace.

Camilla said the competition had brought “communities across the Commonwealth closer together”.

The 140-year-old contest, the world’s oldest international writing competition for schools, has “given young people the opportunity to express themselves on the issues that matter most”, she said.

Well done to each and every one of you, you are quite brilliant

Camilla met the 2023 winners and runners-up, as well as Dr Linda Yueh, executive chairwoman of the Royal Commonwealth Society, and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth, an RCS ambassador.

This year’s participants, aged between 11 and 17 from India and Malaysia , were asked to write on the subject of “a youth-powered Commonwealth”. with extracts from the winners’ essays read out at the palace by literary figures and actors including Dame Joanna Lumley , Sir Ben Okri and Sanjeev Bhaskar.

During her speech, avid reader Camilla described how Queen Victoria was also a “passionate lover of literature”.

“She was particularly fond of the works of many authors, including Jane Austen, Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte and Lewis Carroll.

“Legend has it that, having admired Alice In Wonderland, the Queen wrote to Lewis Carroll to request first editions of any of his other books.

“By return of post she received a copy of his Syllabus Of Plane Algebraic Geometry. Probably not what she was after,” the Queen said.

Praising the entrants, Camilla said: “Well done to each and every one of you, you are quite brilliant and I have, as ever, enormously enjoyed reading your entries.”

The winners of this year’s competition were Siddhi Deshmukh, senior winner, 17, Mumbai, India; Shreeya Sahi, junior winner, 12, Panchkula, India; Yong Sin Kong, senior runner-up, 15, Johor, Malaysia; and Mitali Ragtah, junior runner-up, 11, New Delhi, India.

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Join us in applauding the extraordinary accomplishments of our talented students at the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition, a globally renowned platform where young minds from 60 countries showcase their brilliance. This year, the competition reached new heights with an unprecedented 34,924 entries, making it a true testament to the caliber of young intellects worldwide.

🏆🌎 Out of the 107 participants from our school, an astounding 51 have emerged as recipients! 🌟 We are bursting with pride as our students shine among the brightest in this prestigious international arena. Their dedication, creativity, and eloquence have truly set them apart, showcasing the immense potential and talent that our school cultivates.

Let’s celebrate the joy and happiness that these young minds bring to our school community! Their success not only reflects their individual brilliance but also highlights the commitment of our school to nurture and empower the next generation of global leaders.

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In the spotlight of the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2023, we’re thrilled to honor one of our exceptional students, Cheong Ning Xin from Form 1 Exodus, for her outstanding achievement! 🥇 Despite narrowly missing the top spot, Ning Xin has earned the prestigious Gold Finalist Award – a testament to her exceptional talent and dedication. Her work stood out remarkably, earning commendation that propelled her piece to the Final Judging Panel for consideration in the Junior or Senior Winner, or Runner-up categories.

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Two Singaporeans receive The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition awards in Buckingham Palace

LONDON - Gauri Kumar, 14, lived in London for three years until she moved home to Singapore last year.

While she was here, she had only seen Buckingham Palace from the outside. On Wednesday (Oct 26), she and fellow Singaporean Tan Wan Gee, 14, were escorted into the palace, put through a rehearsal and taught how to curtsy.

It was to get them ready to meet Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.

The Duchess was presenting certificates to the two teenagers: Gauri came in tops in the junior category of The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition, while Wan Gee was the runner-up. The senior category was won by Inessa Rajah from South Africa and the runner-up was Esther Mungalaba from Zambia.

They beat 13,500 others from nearly all the Commonwealth countries, earning themselves a "Winners Week" in London which includes cultural and educational activities such as visits to Cambridge University, Houses of Parliament, The London Evening Standard newspaper, British Library and an award ceremony in Buckingham Palace.

Gauri said she was "extremely nervous" about the royal experience. "I haven't processed it yet. Hopefully, I'll be able to understand in a few days. But I'm still really confused about what's been happening," she said after receiving her award from the Duchess.

Wan Gee described the Duchess as "incredibly nice". She had asked the girls about the inspiration behind their winning essays, which had to reflect on the theme of the competition: An Inclusive Commonwealth.

Founded in 1883, The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition is the world's oldest international schools writing competition. This year drew the most number of entries. Singapore alone sent in 4,585 entries - more than any other country.

The last Singaporean winner was Selina Xu from Nanyang Girls High School, who was senior runner-up in 2014.

The entries were judged by a pan-Commonwealth body of judges from more than 30 countries, who have described the entries as "inspirational", "imaginative" and "moving".

For her winning essay "Tales Of An Insider/Outsider", Gauri, who attends Tanglin Trust School, wrote about her experience of feeling disconnected from her relatives and culture because she does not speak Hindi well.

Wan Gee, who is studying in Temasek Junior College, wrote a poem "Are We Really So Different? Dear Santa", in which she advocated the importance of equality.

The two are voracious readers, with Gauri enjoying dystopian novels and authors like J K Rowling and George Orwell, and Wan Gee finding inspiration in Charles Bukowski and Sylvia Plath.

"There's something about their poetry that resonates with me," said Wan Gee, who confessed to hating poetry before she took a module in school last year.

"I bought a book by Charles Bukowski the other day. It's the way he makes something very ordinary feel very relatable. I really like that kind of expression."

Mr Michael Lake, director of the Royal Commonwealth Society, which organises the competition, said the four winners represent the "very best and brightest that the Commonwealth has to offer".

"Their essays and poems explore contemporary themes with maturity, intelligence and depth beyond their years."

About 70 guests were at the ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday to celebrate the young writers' achievements. They included Mr Chia Wei Wen, Deputy High Commissioner for Singapore, The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster Abbey and Ms Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former prime minister of Denmark and now CEO of Save the Children International.

Watching on proudly were Gauri's parents and younger sister, and Wan Gee's mother.

The girls are only too aware that when they go back to Singapore, their friends will ask them if they met the Queen. They had words of encouragement for aspiring young writers who might now be inspired to join the competition.

"There's no harm in entering the competition and if you do well, that's the most amazing thing," said Gauri.

Added Wan Gee: "Never give up on your writing. You never know where it'll take you, for example, here."

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• 2nd Prize: Latica Honda-Rosenberg (Germany)
• 3rd Prize: Ichun Pan (China)
• 2nd Prize: Tamaki Kawakubo (Japan-USA) and Xi Chen (China)
• 3rd Prize: Tatiana Samuil (Russia)
• 1st Prize: Mayuko Kamio (Japan)
• 2nd Prize: Nikita Boriso-Glebsky (Russia)
• 3rd Prize: Yuki Manuela Janke (Germany)
• 2nd Prize: Sergey Dogadin (Russia) and Itamar Zorman (Israel)
• 3rd Prize: Jehye Lee (South Korea)
• 1st Prize: Natalia Shakhovskaya (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Leslie Parnas (USA) and Valentin Feygin (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Natalia Gutman (USSR) and Mikhail Khomitser (USSR)
• 1st Prize: Karine Georgian (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Stephen Kates (USA) and Arto Noras (Finland)
• 3rd Prize: Kenichiro Yasuda (Japan) and Eleonora Testelets (USSR)
• 1st Prize: David Geringas (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Victoria Yagling (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Ko Iwasaki (Japan)
• 1st Prize: Boris Pergamenschikov (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Ivan Monighetti (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Hirofumi Kanno (Japan)
• 1st Prize: Nathaniel Rosen (USA)
• 2nd Prize: Mari Fudzivara (Japan) and Daniel Veis (Czechoslovakia)
• 3rd Prize: Alexander Kniazev (USSR) and Alexander Rudin (USSR)
• 1st Prize: Antonio Meneses (Brazil)
• 2nd Prize: Alexander Rudin (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Georg Faust (Germany)
• 1st Prize: Mario Brunello (Italy) and Kirill Rodin (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Suren Bagratuni (USSR) and Martti Rousi (Finland)
• 3rd Prize: Sara Sant'Ambrogio (USA) and John Sharp (USA)
• 1st Prize: Gustav Rivinius (Germany)
• 2nd Prize: Françoise Groben (Luxemburg) and Alexander Kniazev (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Bion Tsang (USA) and Tim Hugh (UK)
• 2nd Prize: Not awarded
• 3rd Prize: Not awarded
• 1st Prize: Denis Shapovalov (Russia)
• 2nd Prize: Liwei Qin (Australia)
• 3rd Prize: Boris Andrianov (Russia)
• 2nd Prize: Johannes Moser (Germany)
• 3rd Prize: Claudius Popp (Germany) and Alexander Chaushian (Armenia)
• 1st Prize: Sergey Antonov (Russia)
• 2nd Prize: Alexander Buzlov (Russia)
• 3rd Prize: István Várdai (Hungary)
• 1st Prize: Narek Hakhnazaryan (Russia)
• 2nd Prize: Edgar Moreau (France)
• 3rd Prize: Ivan Karizna (Bielorussia)
• 1st Prize: Vladimir Atlantov (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Nikolai Okhotnikov (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Simon Estes (USA) and Konstantin Lisovsky (USSR)
• 1st Prize: Jane Marsh (USA)
• 2nd Prize: Veronica Tyler (USA) and Evelina Stoytseva (Bulgaria)
• 1st Prize: Evgeny Nesterenko (USSR) and Nikolai Orgenich (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Vladislav Piavko (USSR) and Zurab Sotkilava (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Victor Trishin (USSR)
• 1st Prize: Elena Obraztsova (USSR) and Tamara Sinyavskaya (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Evdokia Kolesnik (USSR)
• 1st Prize: Ivan Ponomarenko (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Kolos Kováts (Hungary)
• 3rd Prize: Anatoly Ponomarenko (USSR) and Vladimir Malchenko (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Lyudmila Sergiyenko (USSR), Stefka Evstatieva (Bulgaria) and Sylvia Sass (Hungary)
• 3rd Prize: Galina Kalinina (USSR) and Tatiana Erastova (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Valentin Pivovarov (USSR) and Nikita Storojev (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Yuri Statnik (USSR)
• 1st Prize: Lyudmila Shemchuk (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Lyudmila Nam (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Ewa Podleś (Poland) and Mariana Ciaromila (Romania)
• 1st Prize: Paata Burchuladze (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Gegam Grigorian (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Vladimir Chernov (USSR)
• 1st Prize: Lidiya Zabilyasta (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Khuraman Gasimova (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Dolora Zajick (USA)
• 1st Prize: Alexander Morozov (USSR) and Grigory Gritsyuk (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Barseg Tumanyan (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Sergei Martynov (USSR)
• 1st Prize: Natalia Erasova (USSR)
• 2nd Prize: Barbara Kilduff (Japan) and Ana Felicia Filip (Romania)
• 3rd Prize: Maria Guleghina (USSR)
• 1st Prize: Hans Choi (USA)
• 2nd Prize: Boris Statsenko (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Oleg Kulko (USSR) and Wojciech Drabowicz (Poland)
• 1st Prize: Deborah Voigt (USA)
• 2nd Prize: Marina Shaguch (USSR)
• 3rd Prize: Emilia Oprea (Romania) and Maria Khokhlogorskaya (USSR)
• 1st Prize: Chen-Ye Yuan (China)
• 3rd Prize: Mikhail Davydov (Russia) and Ho Gwan Su (China)
• Grand Prix Winner: Hibla Gerzmava (Georgia)
• 1st Prize: Marina Lapina (Russia)
• 2nd Prize: Laura Claycomb (USA) and Tatiana Zakharchu (Ukraine)
• 3rd Prize: Irina Gelahova (Russia)
• 1st Prize: Besik Gabitashvili (Georgia)
• 2nd Prize: Evgeny Nikitin (Russia)
• 3rd Prize: Alexander Kisselev (Russia)
• 1st Prize: Mieko Sato (Japan)
• 2nd Prize: Elena Manistina (Russia)
• 3rd Prize: Maira Mukhamed (Kazakhstan)
• 1st Prize: Mikhail Kazakov (Russia)
• 2nd Prize: Andrej Dunaev (Russia)
• 3rd Prize: Kim Don Seub (Korea)
• 1st Prize: Aitalina Afanasieva-Adamova (Russia)
• 2nd Prize: U Bisia (China)
• 3rd Prize: Anna Samuil (Russia)
• 1st Prize: Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Ukraine)
• 2nd Prize: Dmitry Belosselskiy (Russia)
• 3rd Prize: Maxim Paster (Ukraine)
• 1st Prize: Albina Shagimuratova (Russia)
• 2nd Prize: Olesya Petrova (Russia)
• 3rd Prize: Marika Gulordava (Georgia)
• 1st Prize: Jongmin Park (South Korea)
• 2nd Prize: Enkhbatyn Amartüvshin (Mongolia)
• 1st Prize: Sunyoung Seo (South Korea)
• 3rd Prize: Elena Guseva (Russia)

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