Students Achieve Success Through Creative Writing
The ACT Association for the Teaching of English (ACTATE) held a ceremony at Canberra College to award young writers from secondary schools across the ACT who entered the ‘2019 Lit Links Creative Writing Competition’. Students from Merici College, Braddon and St Francis Xavier College, Florey received acknowledgement for their short stories.
Merici student Colette Paterson was ‘Highly Commended’ for her entry ‘The Family Over the Fence’; a short story addressing social issues of migration and racism. Judges of the Year 9 to 10 category Janet Rickwood and Dennis Flannery said that Colette’s description through figurative language and her use of metaphors made for a very engaging narrative.
Freya Spring, also from Merici College, received an ‘Achievement’ award in the Year 9 to 10 category for her short story ‘The Dishes She Did Alone’.
Year 7 students Leah Santi and Mel Riches; Year 11 students Oliver Healy, Georgia Rice and Lily Mahon and Year 12 students Enrico Bagala and Ryan Sweeney from St Francis Xavier College were also presented with ‘Achievement’ awards for their submissions.
“A special mention must go out to the young writers’ families and teachers,” said Lit Links Judge, Dennis Flannery. “These writers have been encouraged to write, have been given opportunities to write, have been supported through the writing process and through Litlinks they have been given an opportunity for their works to be read more widely.”
Congratulations to all students who submitted entries this year.