Article: Brodie, 13, well versed in success.

A BUDDING young writer has won a national poetry competition for pupils.

Brodie Smart, 13, who attends Bishop Stopford School in Kettering, has won the secondary individual category for 11 to 19-year-olds in the Nasen national competition.

Her poem 'As I watched' beat more than 360 entries from across the UK and was read out by children's author Pie Corbett at The Education Show at Birmingham NEC earlier this week.

Brodie said: "Being one of the winners made me feel quite good because I always liked writing poems and stories."

Brodie, of Burton Latimer, says she has been writing stories and poems for as long as she can remember and her ...

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