The Hemingway award

 Background

Dan was a student at The Cherwell School from 1985-1990 and left after completing his A levels to take up his place to study at St Andrew’s University. He was an enormously talented student and an inspiring writer.  His interests and  talents were eclectic, and his powers of human observation and insight quite remarkable. He listened to Bob Dylan,  played Beethoven and blues on the piano, and read Wodehouse avidly. His passion was literature, of all styles and periods, and he first started to write short stories and novels at the age of sixteen. The annual prize at The Cherwell School was established in his memory, as one small encouragement to other young people who have the promise and ambition to make a lasting contribution.

THE CHERWELL SCHOOL, OXFORD - CREATIVITY PRIZE

The purpose of the annual prize at the Cherwell School is to recognise and reward creative potential in any field broadly within the arts.

The £350 prize is open to all final year students at the school (average age 17-18) who are invited to demonstrate  their creative potential by entering one piece of work in any medium they choose. This is not a prize for academic achievement, nor exam grades, and the judging is carried out totally independently of the school by professionals who work in the arts and media.

Every year, the entrants demonstrate the most amazing and varied creative potential. The judges are continually inspired by young film-makers, writers, dancers, drama groups, dress-makers, composers, musicians, painters, potters and poets.

In Memory of Dan, 1972-1991