English department notices February 2011– Year seven creative writing prize: Lily Chamelle. Year eight creative writing prize….
Please describe yourself for your online profile so people can learn about you and your interests:
My name is Lily Chamelle, I’m twelve years old and I enjoy acting, singing, reading and especially creative writing. I live in London with my parents and hamster, Waffles. Add me for fun chats funny pics and maybe some stories.
Comments:
Cammie LS – You may like acting and singing but you’re rubbish at them.
Tyler Yanker – I know right. And reading and ‘creative writing’, you’re such a nerd-freak.
Cammie LS – Yeah. And in what world would talking to you be fun?
To help your new form tutor, Mrs Richardson, to get to know you, please describe yourself in fifteen words or less:
I am stupid; I am as pointless as a combine harvester in the winter months – Lily Chamelle.
Teacher’s comments – Can we please talk about the reasons why you feel like this and why you have given up creative writing? Is my office this lunch good?
Assembly notices – Will Cammille Livel-Stuart and Tyler Yanker please come to the headmistresses’ office this break to speak about Lily Chamelle?
Rest in peace Waffles Chamelle, the hamster. Waffles helped me through a really tough time: I was being bullied at school and it left me with no self-esteem. But Waffles was duvet that kept me warm, the only source of unconditional love in my life, and though, to an outsider, it seemed I looked after her, she really was the one who looked out for me.
Waffles was my anchor, she needed me, and now I feel I might drift away in the dark black sea of depression again. But now she is in somewhere green and beautiful, far from all my worries, but sadly from me. Rest in peace my dear, dear friend.
Your loving owner and friend,
Lily Chamelle.
The 2012 National Youth Writers Prize for Short Story Writing
Contents:
Benn Williams – The Dark Railway
Orphia Simmen – Willow Shade
Wilma Franks - Hostage
Georga Dank – City of Lights
3rd Simon Henries – Pin Dropping
2nd Nadia Elen-Andrews – A Blade of Grass
1st Lily Chamelle – The Morning Call
19/12/2016
Merry Christmas everyone! It is that time again, my Christmas newsletter. Now this year was very special for my daughter, Lily, who has copped well with bullying, self-esteem issues and depression: she has won her fourth national writing prize and received her excellent GCSE results: seven As and two A*s (English and Drama) she’s got into one of the country’s best sixth-form colleges, we are very proud.
As a family we have also…
Merry Christmas.
Judith Chamelle-Farengate
20 years later…
Lily Chamelle is one of our country’s foremost writers for young people. She won many writing prizes as a child and in 2021 she graduated from university with a !st in English, since then she has writing many bestselling books and last year received an OBE for services to literature.
