“Poem Star Search” or AWC Contest of Creative Writing
Congratulations to the winners of the AWC poem contest “Writing in English”!
This year we are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the Center. We are happy that you shared this joyful moment with us and took part in the contest.
We would like to thank the participants who have written 40 wonderful poems.
Our congratulations to the winners:
Aray Saniyazova
Expert in the SERU Lab
Natalia Zakharova
Analyst at the Centre for Vocational Education and Skills Development
Madina Kalimullina
Senior Research Fellow at the HSE — Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development
Poems written by the contest winners
Aray Saniyazova
Writing is diving:
The ocean of words
Writing is striving:
Make sense of the verbs
Writing is fighting:
Blank paper and screen
Writing is lightning:
Idea! You scream!
Writing is citing:
Give credits – you win
Writing is biting:
Don’t throw in the bin
Writing is hyping?
Sometimes may be worth
Writing is typing?
Wait! Why on earth?
Yes, writing is struggling
And often is juggling
But what is inviting
It’s very exciting!
Natalia Zakharova
Whenever your imperfect writing skills,
Make you feel hopeless, worthless and frustrated,
Put down your thoughts in writing.
Mind you! Ideas must be brief and simply stated.
Your introduction should include the gist -
The main frustration triggers, plain and clear.
(Read the example)
“I’m fed up with rules of writing
In the Academic sphere!”
Next, take a break, relax or have a snack,
Reward yourself, you’ve made a mighty effort!
Then brace yourself and work like a maniac
To make up the first draft and then proofread it.
(Read the example)
“Writing the first draft
Is commonly a real excruciation!”.
Then, make examples, relevant and apt,
Provide the recent data (wide selection!).
Then take a walk around your oak desk
(or any other object, doesn’t matter!)
Get back to writing! That’s your homestretch!
(You’ll see that very soon you’ll feel much better!)
(Read the example)
“Let’s recap the case.
Burnt out, hungry, overworked, exhausted.
But competent!”
And when it is in press,
Enjoy your pint with chicken legs, well-roasted=)
Madina Kalimullina
The journal has swallowed my paper
The journal has swallowed my paper
Without returning it back.
My effort was hard by no matter:
I failed to get the feedback.
10 months since initial parting
I see neither loss nor gain.
Response from the clerk is non-hearting:
«I’ve sent a reminder AGAIN».
My thoughts and my hopes are dying
The mind demands the critique.
My future research non-inspiring
While current results so mystique.
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