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A BUDDING east Clare writer has been short listed in the Concern
Cecil Woodham Smith Creative Writing Competition 2009.
Ana Flynn from Mountshannon was short listed for the senior cat-
egory of the prestigious international AMEN EOD
The talented young writer is a past pupil of Raheen Wood Steiner
School, Tuamgraney and the Alfa Project, Active Learning for Adoles- cents in Scarriff.
She is currently studying Televi- sion and Digital Film in Ballyfermot College of Further Education, hav- ing deferred, for a year, her place on the honours media degree course in Queen Margaret’s College, Edin- burgh.
Entrants to the Concern creative writing competition were asked to write a letter to President Obama on one of three critical issues; world hunger, climate change in the devel- oping world or child labour.
Ana wrote a letter highlighting child labour from the point of view of a 15-year-old girl from Kenya.
The competition received more than 800 entries from places far and near including Japan, Niger, Liberia, India, USA, UK and of course Ire- land.
Ana’s letter, along with other prize winning and short listed letters, has been published in a book