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Term 3 2023 Winners Announced!

Congrats to our Term 3 ‘Voice’ Competition Winners 👏👏👏👏. Wow what an amazing bunch of writers we have in our community! We say it every year and every term but the fact remains that you guys make it so difficult for us to choose winning entries but choose we must.

This term we have familiar names return to the winners’ circle including past winners which is something to celebrate. Congratulations go to everyone who entered, to write a story is a victory in itself and regardless of whether you are named in the winning entries or not, the greatest prize is to have written a story that is yours and yours alone.

A big thanks to our wonderful sponsors at Express Media, VentraIP Australia, StoryCraft Creative Writing Workshops Mornington Peninsula News Group and Bing Lee for your generosity and supporting our next generation of writers.

Without further ado, it is an honour to present to you our winners.

Year 10 – 12 Winners

🥇First Place – To Dance on Air in the Heart of Cuba by Amelia Tu, Shalom College, QLD
🥈Second Place – Boy’s Club  by Kierah Hayward, Homeschooled
🥉Third Place – Rope by Nigella Gillard, Kolbe Catholic College, WA

Year 7 – 9 Winners

🥇First Place – , etc. by Adrita Saha, James Ruse Agricultural School, NSW
🥈Second Place – A Lime-green Jacket and a Second Chance by Dulara Jayasekara, Mount Waverley Secondary School, VIC
🥉Third Place – I Was Once a Teen Girl Too by Shenaya Sinah, Tara Anglican School for Girls, NSW

📢 Mornington Peninsula Local Writer’s Award

🌟 The Starling and the Fairywren  by Jocia Power, Mount Eliza Secondary College

📣 Honourable Mentions – Senior Division (Years 10 – 12)

Congratulations to the writers receiving Honourable Mentions for their stories in our Senior Division of Term 3’s ‘Voice’ comp, you should be proud of your achievement. We will do our best to publish all winning entries over the course of the term.

• Our Way Forward by Zara Lawrence, All Hallows’ School, QLD
• Dear Sapling by Mia James, Mount St Benedict College, NSW
• You by Olivia Luu, Cerdon College, NSW
• Noise by Jeremy Rusli, Mansfield State High School, QLD
• The Colour of Violence by Anonymous, Alia College, VIC
• The Inbetween by Anonymous, St Bede’s College, VIC
• Revolution by Emily Brown, Home Education Unit, QLD
• Breaking Anxiety’s Silence by Grace Boutros, St Charbel’s College, NSW
• A Coward’s Move by Lily Turbill, Albany Senior High School, WA
• Voice by Pen by Doris Wei, Mansfield State High School, QLD
• The Melodramatic Poet by Veronica Keelan-Slight, Mackillop College, NSW

Congratulations to the writers receiving Honourable Mentions for their stories in our Junior Division of Term 3’s ‘Voice’ comp, great work, you and your school community should be very proud of your work. We will do our best to publish all winning entries over the course of the term.

• Echoes of Unity by Jack Blaney, Brisbane State High School, QLD
• Forest Song by Karunamuni Sanuli Karunaratne, Marist Regional College, TAS
• Sincerely, the Voice in Your Head by Charlotte Brown, Ravenswood School for Girls, NSW
• Voices by Dev Raval, Churchie School, QLD
• Straitjacket by Hannah Yu, Abbotsleigh School, NSW
• Silent or BOLD. You pick by Anwesha Poddar, Baulkham Hills High School, NSW
• Blacked Out Praise by Annabelle Djaja, Hornsby Girls’ High School, NSW
• Dystopia by Isabella Chalker, Bunbury Senior High School, WA
• The Voice of Music by Indigo Leyland, St Mary’s Catholic College. QLD
• The Sad Voice of Society by Chloe Tabet, Tara Anglican School for Girls, NSW
• Red Thread by Mythri Sarker, Hurlstone Agricultural School, NSW

We will be publishing all our winning entries over the coming days and weeks. We also encourage you to read our Judges Report by clicking the link below:

Please take the time to read our Judges Report here for further insight AND…

We’ve just opened entries for our Term 4 comp with the  theme of “Magic” 🎤🎙

Please spread the word to your students, friends, membership base, children, social networks, and anyone you think would be interested in submitting their work for the chance to win terrific prizes while flexing their creative muscle. We’d love to read their entries!

Thanks for your ongoing support, we’ll be contacting our winners in the next few weeks to organise delivery of prizes and certificates.

Sincerely

Joe and Bec

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Term 2 2023 Winners Announced!

Congrats to our Term 2 ‘Mask’ Competition Winners 👏👏👏👏. We say it every year and every term but the fact remains that you guys make it so difficult for us to choose winning entries but choose we must.

So, to the following fantastic writers, well done, we are proud of you and hope your school, family and friends are as well. To all of you who entered, we are proud of you too. Just because your story was not selected as a winner does not make it any less special, it will find its audience so KEEP WRITING.

A big thanks to our wonderful sponsors at Express Media, VentraIP Australia, StoryCraft Creative Writing WorkshopsMornington Peninsula News Group and Bing Lee for your generosity and supporting our next generation of writers.

Without further ado, it is an honour to present to you our winners. (Stay tuned for more announcements on our Honourable Mentions and Local Writer’s Award winner.)

Year 10 – 12 Winners

🥇First Place – White Face / Red Face by Anne Fo, Mount Waverley Secondary College, VIC
🥈Second Place – The Masquerade by Saskia de Leeuw Kyle, Fitzroy High School, VIC
🥉Third Place – Green Nostalgia by Fire Chicken Noodles, Shalom Catholic College, QLD

Year 7 – 9 Winners

🥇First Place – A Masked Man by Yihan Zhang, Meridien School, NSW
🥈Second Place – Broken Glass by Adrita Saha, James Ruse Agricultural School, NSW
🥉Third Place – Sugar and Spice by Anonymous, Lyneham High School, ACT

📢 Mornington Peninsula Local Writer’s Award

🌟 Manners by Anonymous, Woodleigh School, VIC

📣 Honourable Mentions – Senior Division (Years 10 – 12)

Congratulations to the writers receiving Honourable Mentions for their stories in our Senior Division of Term 2’s ‘Mask’ comp, you should be proud of your achievement. We will do our best to publish all winning entries over the course of the term.

• The Empress’s Golden Veil by Tahj Dimmer, Batemans Bay High School, NSW
• Wearing the Willow (my wooden mask of ignorance) by Amelia Tu, Shalom College, QLD
• M for Mask by Alexia Kavellaris, Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak, VIC
• Masked for Eternity by Taanvi Deenadayaalu, St Monica’s College, QLD
• Broken Plasterine by Kiro Vanderwacht, Alta-1 Merriwa, WA
• Helter Skelter by Syazwana Saifudin, Suzanne Cory High School, VIC
• The Anxious Android Affair by Eliott Bidstrup, Birchip School, VIC
• A Photon in Double Split by Ria Saini, James Ruse Agricultural High School, NSW
• Floating Message by Alicia Warhurst, Bray Park High School, QLD
• What Am I? by Molly Menzies, Loreto Kirribilli, NSW
• Untitled by Ian Cao, Hurlstone Agricultural School, NSW
• Progression by James Crowle, Waverley College, VIC
• Concealed by Anonymous, Mount Waverley Secondary College, VIC
• Together til the End by Maulee Jain, James Ruse Agricultural School, NSW

Congratulations to the writers receiving Honourable Mentions for their stories in our Junior Division of Term 2’s ‘Mask’ comp, great work, you and your school community should be very proud of your work. We will do our best to publish all winning entries over the course of the term.

• Behind Closed Doors (Your Mask Falls Off)  by Ivanka Welsh, Shalom College, QLD
• Breaking News by Tyler Pitt, Shalom College, QLD
• Woman In a Man’s Ring by Jess Cooling, Kinross College, WA
• Light of Hope by Nicholas Jorgensen, Bendigo south East College, VIC
• Day of My Diagnosis by Neve Welsh, Tombolo Academy, VIC
• Veiled Essence by Benedict Akbarzadeh-Haendel, Tombolo Academy, VIC
• A House in Flames by Isla Attard, Magdalene Catholic College, NSW
• The Worm Within by Harper Baker, Maryborough State High School, QLD
• I Just Want to Fit In by Amy Jochheim, ACEN Chanel College, QLD
• Free by Manaia Bolger, Trinity College, Beenleigh QLD
• I Want the Mask to Fall by Kaavya Gupta, Abbotsleigh Anglican School for Girls, NSW
• Loud Laughter by Katherine Lam, Presbyterian Ladies’ College, VIC
• Spotlight by Aiden McCaffrey, Sandringham College, VIC
• Two Eyes by Lincoln Brown, Mansfield State High School, QLD

We will be publishing all our winning entries over the coming days and weeks. We also encourage you to read our Judges Report by clicking the link below:

Please take the time to read our Judges Report here for further insight AND…

We’ve just opened entries for our Term 3 comp with the  theme of “Voice” 🎤🎙

Please spread the word to your students, friends, membership base, children, social networks, and anyone you think would be interested in submitting their work for the chance to win terrific prizes while flexing their creative muscle. We’d love to read their entries!

Thanks for your ongoing support, we’ll be contacting our winners in the next few weeks to organise delivery of prizes and certificates.

Sincerely

Joe and Bec

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Term 1 2023 Winners Announced!

A HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE Congrats to our Term 1 ‘Love’ Competition Winners. You guys make it so difficult for us to choose winning entries but choose we must. So, to the following fantastic writers, well done, we are proud of you and hope your school, family and friends are as well. To all of you who entered, we are proud of you too. Just because your story was not selected as a winner does not make it any less special, it will find its audience. For all writers, and you are all writers, it is nice to be recognised but it is more important to keep writing. A big thanks to our wonderful sponsors at Express Media, Officeworks, VentraIP Australia and StoryCraft Creative Writing WorkshopsMornington Peninsula News Group. Without further ado, it is an honour to present to you our winners. (Stay tuned for more announcements on our Honourable Mentions and Local Writer’s Award winner.)

Year 10 – 12 Winners

First Place – Candle-wick Man and I by Anonymous, McKinnon Secondary College, VIC

Second Place – Self Love by Carla Stanojevic, Ave Maria College Aberfeldie, VIC

Third Place – All That is Love by Syazwana Saifudin, Suzanne Cory High School VIC

Year 7 – 9 Winners

First Place – The Truth of Love by Dulara Jayasekara, Mount Waverley Secondary College, VIC

Second Place – Love Yourself by Jimin Jeon, Homeschooled, NSW

Third Place – Too Heavy by Dominique Zamora, Mercy Catholic College, Chatswood, NSW

Mornington Peninsula Local Writer’s Award

Piano Boy by Sophia van Zanten, Mount Eliza Secondary College, VIC

A big thank you also to our sponsors – @ventraip , @express_media , @storycraftworkshops and @officeworks @mornington peninsula new group and a BIG LSBI welcome to our newest prize sponsor @bing lee – who will be providing $50 gift vouchers for both Senior and Junior division winners for Terms 2,3 and 4.

Honourable Mentions Years 7 – 9
• Winter’s Aubade by Indigo Leyland, Saint Mary’s Catholic College, QLD
• Stray Cat by Sumayyah Deen, Homeschooled, QLD
• Your Golden Hour by Adrita Saha, James Ruse Agricultural High School, NSW
• Quiet Evenings by Karunamuni Sanuli Karunaratne, Marist Regional College, TAS
• Made for Love by Emma Zhang, Meridien School, NSW
• Flowers Fall in Winter by Lillian King, GRC Peakhurst, NSW
• Imagine by Olivia Cameron, North Albany Senior High School, WA
• I Love Cricket by Anonymous, Scotch College, WA
• A Gamble of Love by Anonymous, Lyneham High School, ACT
• Silver Knives by Isla Attard, Magdalene Catholic College, NSW
• To You Who I Would Wait Forever For by Sarah Qi, James Ruse Agricultural High School, NSW
• A Red Field Sways In a Winter’s Breeze by Claire Li, James Ruse Agricultural High School, NSW
• Someone To Come Home To by Adrita Saha, James Ruse Agricultural High School, NSW
• Undying Love by Esther Li, Neutral Bay Public School, NSW
• Self-love by Annabel Li, Queenwood School for Girls, QLD

Honourable Mentions Year 10 – 12• Mirage by Madeleine Watson, Pymble Ladies College, NSW
• The Heart and It’s Herald by Harvey Lam, Nossal High School, VIC
• Love hate: Hate love by Kira Heffernan, Mansfield State High School, QLD
• Circuit Breaker by Ben McLean, Sandringham College, VIC
• Waiting by Xavier Hynes, St Ignatius College Riverview, NSW
• She and He by Lily Makin, Macarthur Anglican School, NSW
• Lost Love by Jacqueline Tran, Hurlstone Agricultural High School, NSW
• Meraki by Ariana Sim, Abbotsleigh School, NSW
• Vista on the Alicante by Ryan McCaffrey, Sandringham College, VIC
• A Lesson, I Listen, I Lessen by Amelia Tu, Shalom College, QLD
• Our Glass House by Georgia Harris, Sandringham College, VIC
• Simple Love by Grace Morgan, Tenison Woods College, SA
• Outgrown Love by Karina Lee, Darwin High School, NT
• Unsatisfied by Zoe Copeland, St Josephs Regional College, NSW
• In the Name of Love by Veronica Keelan-Slight, Mackillop College, NSW

We will be publishing all our winning entries over the coming days and weeks. We also encourage you to read our Judges Report by clicking the link below:

Please take the time to read our Judges Report here for further insight AND…

We’ve just opened entries for our Term 2 comp with the  theme of “MASK”  😷👺👹

Please spread the word to your students, friends, membership base, children, social networks, and anyone you think would be interested in submitting their work for the chance to win terrific prizes while flexing their creative muscle. We’d love to read their entries!

Thanks for your ongoing support, we’ll be contacting our winners in the next few weeks to organise delivery of prizes and certificates.

Sincerely

Joe and Bec

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Term 4 2022 Winners Announced!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Welcome to 2023

A huge congratulations to our winners of Term 4 2022 ‘Fear’ comp. Well done to all of you!

We’d like to award every student that entered a prize but unfortunately we can’t (but we’d like to!) and so many of you were SOOOO close to being chosen as winners so don’t despair if your story wasn’t chosen as a winner this term because in our eyes you’re a WINNER for writing one in the first place. So keep entering, because we absolutely LOVE reading your stories.

We’d also like to say a BIG thank you to the school communities for supporting our competition and encouraging their students to enter, we’ve had multiple entries from loads of schools and we’re really grateful to teachers for encouraging your students to enter.

A big thank you also to our sponsors – @ventraip , @readingsbooks , @express_media , @storycraftworkshops and @officeworks

So please join Rebecca and I (Joe) on congratulating our winners.

Year 10 – 12 Winners

First Place
• Ten Minus Two (Tu) by Amelia Tu, Shalom College, QLD
Second Place
• For Fear of a Writer by Zara Perry, Ravenswood School for Girls, NSW
Third Place
• Under the Tree by Zoe Copeland, St Joseph’s Regional College, NSW

Honourable Mentions:
• I Fear by Carmel Bai, Ravenswood School for Girls, NSW
• The Fear by Abigail Barfield, Pymble Ladies college, NSW
• Tsunami’s Dance by Shreya Dutta, Hornsby Girls High School, NSW
• The Moment Before by Emily Brown, Home Education Unit, QLD
• Bundle of Cries by Aiesha Kilgannon, Willunga High School, SA
• Sleepless Night by Alphonsa Benjamin, The MacRoberston Girls High, VIC
• The Classroom by Alanna Lu, Trinity Catholic college, NSW
• Anxiety by Hana Wong, Modbury High School, SA
• The Trapped by James Hillier, Newtown High School of the Performing Arts, NSW
• My Birthday Present by ANONYMOUS, Hornsby Girls High School, NSW

Year 7 – 9 Winners

First Place
• Slipped by Noa Gomberg, Mount Scopus Memorial College, VIC
Second Place
• Fight, Flight or Fright by Alna George, Yeronga State High School, QLD
Third Place
• Memories Mourned by Sarah Morrow, Albany Senior High School, WA

Honourable Mentions:

• Ink by Harry Tong of Knox Grammar School, VIC
• In the Spotlight by Amy Parker, Gosford High School, NSW
• Walking on Eggshells by Charlotte Davis, St Patrick’s College, NSW
• The Fear of Failing by Lily Grant, St Mary’s College, NSW
• Kalubauf by Ren Howe of Mt Eliza Secondary College, VIC
• Once She Was Afraid Of by ANONYMOUS, Amity College, NSW
• 3050 by ANONYMOUS, Western Grammar School, NSW
• Neurodivergent Meltdown by Mikah Williamson, Bunbury High, WA
• The Tormentor by Meira Walsh, Aviation State High School, QLD
• City Loop by Zoe Morris, Melbourne Girls’ College, VIC
• What is Bravery Without Fear? by Saarim Qazi, Western Grammar School, NSW
• My Enemy, by ANONYMOUS, Mount Eliza High School, VIC
• – la lune, crains-la by Karunamuni Sanuli Karunaratne of Marist Regional College, TAS
• Fear by Ellen Wei, Taroona High School, TAS

We will be publishing all our winning entries over the coming days and weeks. We also encourage you to read our Judges Report by clicking the link below:

Please take the time to read our Judges Report here for further insight AND…

We’ve just opened entries for our first competition of 2023 with the multi-faceted, multi-layered theme of “LOVE”

Please spread the word to your students, friends, membership base, children, social networks, and anyone you think would be interested in submitting their work for the chance to win terrific prizes while flexing their creative muscle. We’d love to read their entries!

Thanks for your ongoing support,

Joe and Beck.

Term 4 2022 Closed

Our Term 4 ‘Fear’ Comp has closed for entries. We’d like to congratulate every single one of you that entered the comp on your creativity and courage to share your words with the world. We had a record 431 entries for the term which is a great way to finish off 2022. A big thanks to our sponsors Readings , Officeworks , Express Media , VentraIP Australia and StoryCraft Creative Writing Workshops.

Winners will be announced during the week of the 23rd of January, 2023, as always we expect that to be a difficult task given just how awesome you guys are as writers. Term 1 2023 will be open for entries early in Jan 2023, so stay tuned.

So, from us to you, a happy and safe holiday season, time for a well-earned break from the books. If you graduated this year, or you’re finishing your secondary studies, then we wish you all the best in your tertiary education, the workforce, travel adventures or whatever you decide to do in 2023. For all of you returning, we hope to see your entries once again next year in 2023, we have loved reading all of them this year and witnessing first hand what a talented bunch of writers our generation next are.

Happy Writing in 2023

Have fun with your friends and loved ones over the break.

Sincerely,

Joe and Bec.

Term 3 2022 Winners Announced!

A huge congratulations to our winners of Term 3’s ‘Body’ comp. We’d like to extend our congratulations to every student who entered as that alone is an achievement worth celebrating, and a special mention to those students who entered multiple times.

We’d also like to say a BIG thank you to the school communities for supporting our competition and encouraging their students to enter.

A big thank you also to our sponsors – @ventraip , @readingsbooks , @express_media , @storycraftworkshops and @officeworks

We would love to give everyone who entered a prize but we can’t, choosing the winners is getting tougher and tougher due to the amazing young writers we have in Australia. If you didn’t win or receive an Honourable Mention, don’t despair, treat your entry as a stepping stone to becoming a writer, and keep writing. Just because your entry did not win does not mean it’s not worthy and rest assured we treasure every single entry.

So please join Rebecca and I (Joe) on congratulating our winners. We will be publishing all our winning entries over the coming days and weeks starting with our first prize winners later today. We also encourage you to read our Judges Report by clicking the link below:

Please take the time to read our Judges Report here for further insight AND…

The theme for Term 4 “FEAR” has now opened for entries.

Please spread the word to your students, membership base, children, social networks, and anyone you think would be interested in submitting their work for the chance to win terrific prizes while flexing their creative muscle. We’d love to read their entries!

Thanks for your ongoing support,