litlinks

A creative writing competition for ACT school students and their teachers

Read the 2024 Winning Entries

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LitLinks has been fostering creative writing by ACT School students since 2018. Click on the links below to access the winning entries:

Click here to read Waves of Change by Imogen Phillips
Click here to read A Burning Memory by Jennifer Du
Click here to read In The Spaghetti by Nina Stachurski,
Click here to read A Boy's Best Friend by Patrick Wenholz
Click here to read Thicker than Water by Skye Mitry
Click here to read Coffee Name by Monica Cao
Click here to read Cicada Season by Megan Cartwright
Click here to read The Visit by Anaya Abdullah
Click here to read Snowdrift by Noah Stuart
Click here to read Truth Be Told by Patrick Wenholz
Click here to read The Metaphor by Izzy Nicolson
Click here to read The Itches by Jamie Newton
Click here to read Warnings by Matilda Charlton
Click here to read Thoughts Under the Portrait by Gabrielle Shoebridge
Click here to read The Forest’s Dancer by Miah Crombie
Click here to read The Day My Heart Died by Clare Russell
Click here to read The Whales by Penelope Robson
Click here to read The Last of Diego Hernandez by Monique Eaton
Click here to read Buzzing Through Life by Sophie Mills
Click here to read The Cage by George Line
Click here to read The Past’s Current by Patricia Sukardi
Click here to read Where the Shadows Lie by Imogen Hales
Click here to read You Won’t Last by Toby Nitural,
Click here to read Crostoli and Jasmine by Natalie Anderson
Click here to read Counting by Elizabeth Denney
Click here to read Narcissus Gazing Skyward by Jack Davies
Click here to read The Mountains by Lainie Steer
Click here to read Plastic Smiles by Charlie Stockings
Click here to read Under the Surface by Ebony Moss
Click here to read The Hungry Sky by Joanne Cook
Click here to read The Heart in the City by Daniel Kipling
Click here to read Mrs Mephistopheles by Julia Murphy
Click here to read Flame War by Jordan Morris
Click here to read The Dog of Orange Ochre by Afryna Yarbakhsh
Click here to read To the Man who Murdered my Parents.... by Elisabeth Gregory
Click here to read Finding Peace by Giorgia Dixon
Click here to read The Family Over the Fence by Colette Paterson
Click here to read Can I get a flat white please? by Alissa Yuen
Click here to read The Wasteland by Leo Moore
Click here to read A Nice Sandwich (with apologies to George Orwell) by Kassandra Stewart
Click here to read Strings by Evelyn Pollard, St John Paul II College
Click here to read Variations on a Summer’s Day by Tessa Grigour
Click here to read An Eye for an Eye by Hannah Luff
Click here to read Altonio and the Raven by Elmore Wenholz
Click here to read Morning Coffee by Brynn Christiansen
Click here to read Cobweb Pieces by Charlie Lovett
Click here to read Hope by Delaney Perrin
Click here to read Louis by Ruby O’Hara-Dewhurst
Click here to read Mr Sheep Judge: A Fable about Justice by Wenjiahui (Cindy) Han
Click here to read The Ghost of the Mist by Ryan Lindsay
Click here to read Blue All the Way Down by Matilda Jenkins
Click here to read Curiosity Killed the Cat by Asha Patterson
Click here to read The Sentimentalist by Nicky Greer-Collins
Click here to read The Cycle by Charlotte Orman
Click here to read A Separation of Mind and Body by Asha Patterson
Click here to read Wolf by Brianna Udovisi
Click here to read The Exam by Julia Murphy
Click here to read Escape from Eternity by Amy Theakston
Click here to read Silence by Lauren Moloney
Click here to read Faultless Flaws by Bella Volk-Loone
Click here to read Una Mente, Uno Consilio by Olive King, Canberra High School
Click here to read Mirror Mirror by Skye Mitry
Click here to read Out of Sight, Out of Mind by Emma Clark
Click here to read Reflection by Gracie Higgs
Click here to read You Listen To Me by Elizabeth Coghill
Click here to read Rabbit-Footed by Kyde Petrie
Click here to read Because of Her by Eleanor Graham
Click here to read Fate Will Find a Way by Ellie Magee
Click here to read Those Underfoot by Thomas Dunlop
Click here to read End. Beginning. Again. by Lea Oberst
Click here to read A Perfect Pair of Polar Opposites by Einjhel Nues
Click here to read Before the Dawn by Lauren O’Daly
Click here to read Thirty-One Percent and Charging by Quinn McGlashan
Click here to read Within The Ashes by Emily Rae-Brinsden
Click here to read A Harvest of Misery by George Line
Click here to read Pepel Van Winkel by Remington Darling
Click here to read The Hunting of the Hart by Saskia Mei
Click here to read Dainty, Though Dangerous by Annica Barber
Click here to read 小淘气 Little Rascal by Samantha Lawson
Click here to read Mors Vincit Omnia by Wilbur Nelson
Click here to read Oneiric Deicide by Nicholas Markham
Click here to read Neighbours by Isla Olney
Click here to read A Serendipitous Disaster by Thuruni Cooray
Click here to read Robbed Dreams by Aadhya Karthik
Click here to read The Deadboys by Aria Maric
Click here to read Zombies by Rose Thompson
Click here to read Memories Leave Scars, Not Wounds by Aadhya Karthik
Click here to read The Birth of the Droplet by Callum Clarke
Click here to read Destiny’s Story by Louis Ryan
Click here to read I’m Still Here by Rose Sheehan
Click here to read The Funny Guy by Kane Lawson
Click here to read Crosscut Macaws by Serena Drur
Click here to read Tag, You’re It by Hannah Northey
Click here to read Lavender and Gunpowder by Juliet Laughton
Click here to read The Palm by Max Van Den Boogaard
Click here to read The Outsider by Michael McKellar
Click here to read The Chankiri Tree by Poppy Volk-Loone
Click here to read Lucky Charm by Sonja Tomanovits
Click here to read สมน้ำหน้า (To get what one deserves) by Taylor Dawes
Click here to read Numbers and Figures by Oscar Edwards

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