Zoya Anwar, a Grade 8 student at École Harbour Landing elementary school, is a top 10 finalist in CBC Books’ The First Page student writing competition. (Shauna Powers/CBC News)
In a post-apocalyptic future set 150 years in the future, the world order has been reset after nuclear war between America and Korea, and a young woman must disguise herself as a man, to make a covert vote for change.
“I had never entered a writing contest before, or challenge, and my teacher convinced me to enter it,” Anwar told Saskatchewan Weekend host Shauna Powers. But the student at École Harbour Landing elementary school says the recognition of her talent came as a welcome surprise.
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