‘Behind the Bars’ scoops short story competition
Tom with competition judge, Juliana Mensah, Artist in Residence, Centre for Applied Human Rights.
Tom Haygarth, a student at York’s Fulford School, has won a literary competition with his short story ‘Behind the Bars’. The tale looks at the lives of those who produce cocoa in West Africa. It is an accessible and entertaining read, written in a confident and mature style; a well deserved winner.
Fulford School students with the book ‘Chocolate Factory’.
The competition was organised by the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York, and by Amnesty International; its theme was chocolate and Human Rights. Tom’s, and other winning stories, have been collected in a book ‘Chocolate Factory’, which is published by Stairwell Books.
