This year's Pushkin Prizewinners were announced at a ceremony held in the imposing surroundings of Archers' Hall in Edinburgh on Monday 30th April. Here they are, photographed with Lady Butter, the founder and Chairman of The Pushkin Prizes in Scotland.

The judges - Vivian French and Edd McCracken - introduced the work of each of the twelve prizewinners, after which they were presented with a volume of poetry by Alexander Pushkin. The two Russian winners were presented with copies of R L Stevenson's Treasure Island, and an anthology of poetry by Robert Burns.

The prize is to attend a week's residential creative writing course at the Arvon Foundation Writers' Centre at Moniack Mhor, and straight after the prizegiving, the winners were driven off, already equipped with notebooks and pencils. Cathy MacPhail and Gerry Cambridge, the two tutors had already given the young writers some ideas - to be discussed later that evening.

We'll be keeping the website updated with news from the course.

- Prizewinner 2011

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