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A creative writing competition for ACT school students and their teachers

Read the 2026 Winning Entries

LitLinks is a creative writing competition open to all ACT school students in years 7-12 and their teachers.

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the 2027 competition.

Resources and Entry Forms will be released via LitLinks News early in the 2027 School Year.

Congratulations to our 2026 Winners

Click on the images and links to explore this year's collection of stories and check out all the 2026 LitLinks Results.

Image: A worried mum, sitting behind the steering wheel in a car on a dark night.
Image: An illustration of a polluted ocean featuring discarded plastic, a crab, and a turtle.
Image: A flower pot full of red poppies.
Image: A painted portrait of a young woman with brown hair.
Image: A woman in a lab, having her brain scanned while a technician supervises.
Button: A campfire in a snowy wilderness, with a river in the background.
Image: A young swimmer with cap and goggles, underwater in a swimming pool.
Image: Ancient Egyptian mummy, partially wrapped in aged, textured bandages.
Image: A sister and her brother, running from reality into the magical world of a book.
Image: A flower pot full of red poppies.
Image: Two figures escaping into a dystopian wasteland.
Image: An illustration of a girl standing atop a collection of notebooks. The top one has a tree growing from it.
Image: A young woman in a dark library, peering between the shelves to see who is there.
Image: A young woman in a dark library, peering between the shelves to see who is there.
Image: A young man sits in front of a window. The light is grey. Outside is an AI-generated dystopia.
Image: A man talking into his phone. A chatbot hovers above it.
Image: Street scene at sunrise in an old inland town in Western Australia.
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