Former Participants:
-
Patricia Ferreira
-
Bruna Rocha
Current Participants:
- Jaqueline Miguel
- Nânci Santos
- Sara Valente
Jaqueline Miguel
My name is Jaqueline and I was born in January 1994.
I love to read and write since I am known as a person. That like started when my mother read
me stories that I thoroughly memorized and then repeated, impressing everyone
with a "reading level" impossible for a child of about two years. I learned to read and write very
quickly and spent primary school reading as many books as I could. Even then, I started writing short
stories with a friend who shared the same like as me.
In 2004, at the age of 10, I started writing my first stories
and more serious poems. I received
a honourable mention for participating in a short story competition about
Christmas Tales. In 2005, they
invited me to put poetry in the school’s newspaper, but never told me anything
else so it ended up not being put in the newspaper. In 2006 I participated in a
competition for BRAVO, a teen magazine, where I had to write the end we
wanted for the Harry Potter saga in which I won 1st place. I participated in a poetry competition
"A Poesia Saiu À Rua" in
2007, for students up to year 12. 30
students took part in it from the schools of the county of Marinha Grande with
90 poems. I had 3rd place. I also participated in a literary
competition of the "Agrupamento de
Escolas Nery Capucho" with the theme "O Nascimento do João da Imaginação",
which also got 3rd place. I
earned several merit diplomas in school for my good representation of the same.
From then, I never participated in any more literary contests,
although I would like to, but never stopped writing, and even less reading. They are two things I love more than
anything!
Nânci Santos
My name is Nânci. I'm
Portuguese but have lived most of my life in the UK. Okay, I'm half Portuguese, half English. I was born in September 1994.
Since I was little I never really liked writing, I've always
been more of a mathematics, physics and chemistry person, particularly because
you don’t have to write a lot! But
then, at age 14, I started reading books that were not comics, and then began
to show more interest in reading and writing. But
it was only in year 10 that I started writing short stories, encouraged by my
friends. I never participated in
writing contests, whether they be in English or Portuguese. But now I started to participate in
this blog!
Sara Valente
Hello! My name is
Sara Valente and I was born in September 1995. I wanted to take part in this
blog because, in 1st place, the administrator Jaqueline Miguel is a great
friend of mine, and also because (of course) I love writing. I know that I’ve been writing since I
was young, but I'm not sure when this was.
I've always loved writing and reading. I remember my mother telling me that
when I was little and she would tell me bedtime stories and I practically
wouldn’t let her tell the story. I’d
start correcting things, such as the places where the character was going or
what she would do. Small details
that ended up being the whole story.
I can also say that I won a little "competition" that
my class did in primary school. A
colleague of ours had lost his pencil in classroom, so our teacher had the idea
for us to write a short story about "The Pencil That Won Feet"
and we illustrated it. That story, along with a drawing by a friend of mine
ended up in the school’s newspaper.
In terms of literary preferences, I undoubtedly put in first
place books whose stories are of the fantastic type; magical or supernatural; anything that isn’t very realistic. I like to be able to escape reality
and create or join alternative, interesting and impossible worlds.
