Congrats to our Term 3 ‘Approval’ Competition Winners 👏👏👏👏 and for those who entered but were not included on the winners’ list, we say it every term and we mean it…

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, and StoryCraft Creative Writing Workshops for your generosity and supporting our next generation of writers.

Year 10 – 12 Winners

🥇1st place, Emily Kirkpatrick, Blaxland High School, NSW, Precipice
🥈2nd place, Anwesha Poddar, Baulkham Hills High School, NSW, Eleven-year-old me
🥉3rd place, Scarlett Wightley, St Thomas More College, Queensland, Simon Says

Year 10 – 12 Honourable Mentions

Finnley Walsh, St. Patrick’s College Ballarat, Victoria, If Only
Angelina Sok, Arthur Phillip High School, NSW, You don’t need someone to tell you that you’re beautiful to be beautiful
Sophie McDonell, Quakers Hill High School, NSW, Approval
Scarlett Wightley (also the 3rd place winner!), St Thomas More College, Queensland, Doubts
Alexandria Belle, Broadford Secondary College, Victoria, Hitting send
Helena Farley, Luther College, Victoria, First-class Approval
Emily Brown, Home Education Unit, Queensland, The Lies I Tell Myself
Sarah Loie, Box Hill High School, Victoria, I told them today

Year 7 – 9 Winners

🥇1st place, Izel Briones, Frankston High School, Victoria, Obedient Generation
🥈2nd place, Ivy-Rose Ilijic, Our Lady Of Mercy College Parramatta, NSW, A Silent Lover
🥉3rd place, Anonymous, The Knot

Year 7-9 Honourable Mentions

Sienna Coleman, Hillcrest Christian College, Queensland, Totally
Brodie Stephenson, St Aloysius College Cronulla, NSW, The Game
Scarlett Currie, Box Hill High School, Victoria, The Unforeseen Praise
Yifang Tang, James Ruse Agricultural High School, NSW, The Other Me
Molly Jones, St Johns College Dubbo, NSW, The Archway
Dulara Jayasekara (two honourable mention entries!), Mount Waverley Secondary School, Victoria, Life Is But A Game and also Need to Be Liked
Poppy Newell, Avila College, Victoria, Hidden
Amber Lim, St Catherine’s School, Victoria, Well, I Tried

Congratulations to everyone who entered, you should be proud of your achievement. We will do our best to publish all winning entries over the course of the term.

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 here.

Please take the time to read our Judges Report for further insight AND…*drum roll*

We’ve just opened entries for our Term 4 2024 comp with the theme of “War” which you can enter at https://littlestoriesbigideas.com.au/entry-form/

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

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!

And if you’re a parent, writer, business or organisation that is able to contribute to our prize pool, we would welcome your support in helping to encourage our students to be creative.

Sincerely
Joe and Sarah

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