Cila Warncke
The Student Experience
The Student Voice - Student competition 2011
The English Subject Centre’s student essay competition now in its 5th year, was a great success with fifty entries, a new Subject Centre record! You can read the winning entries below. This year's topic really enlivened students:
What do English or Creative Writing have to say to an age of austerity?'
The winner was Cila Warncke from the University of Glasgow.
The competition is an annual Higher Education Academy event in which all Subject Centres participate. The winner of the English Subject Centre competition goes forward to a national competition involving students from all disciplines.
Winning Entry
Cila Warncke - University of Glasgow (22kb)
Robert Yeates
"Because English students and writers have never really participated in the collective fantasy of eternal satisfaction through consumption we are uniquely placed to help our stunned compatriots make necessary adjustments. ”
Runner up
Robert Yeates - University of Leicester (22kb)
"What English and Creative Writing have to say to us then, is as much as any other department in higher education – that they enhance, invigorate, and cultivate our culture and civilisation... "
Last Year's Entries
A soft option? What is difficult about English studies or Creative Writing?
Read essays on this topic from our 2010 essay competition -->
