litlinks 2022

A creative writing competition for ACT school students and their teachers

Year 11 & 12 Category, 2022

Image: A year 11 student sitting at her desk, writing in a notebook.

While the themes were often bleak in this year’s entries, they covered a range of contemporary issues and there was some excellent imaginative writing across a range of narrative contexts.

The judges were challenged to decide on the winners and so a new finalist category was introduced to acknowledge the high quality of the students’ writing. The awarded entries displayed tighter control of narrative and were more complete as short stories.

Click on the images and links below to explore the winners in the Years 11 & 12 Category:

Click here to read Snowdrift by Noah Stuart
Click here to read Under the Surface by Ebony Moss
Click here to read Mr Sheep Judge: A Fable about Justice by Wenjiahui (Cindy) Han
Click here to read Those Underfoot by Thomas Dunlop

Winners:

Finalist Awards:

  • Will Gregory, Radford College – Flee
  • Juliet Loughton, Canberra College – To 2020
  • Sarah Zhao, Brindabella Christian College – The Scholar’s Daughter

Shortlisted Awards:

  • Jessica Do, Radford College – Droplets of a Mother’s Dreams
  • Kushala Gregg, University of Canberra Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra – Canberra Addicts
  • Alysia Hwang, Lake Tuggeranong College – Harris’ List of Covent-Garden Ladies
  • Katelyn Marion, Gungahlin College – Even Devils Have Faith

LitLinks Achievement Awards:

  • Thomas Asplund-Meinecke, Narrabundah College – Ascension
  • Eleison Bejar, Gungahlin College – Leading from the Soulful Beads
  • Oscar Boswell, Radford College – Daggers of the Mind
  • Luca Brancella, Marist College – The Chapman Mystery
  • Hannah Branch, Trinity Christian School – Protect Me
  • Jade Breen, Daramalan College – Too Late
  • Rory Bugden, Lake Tuggeranong College – The Danger Within
  • Olivia Clark, University of Canberra Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra – Reprise
  • Nyibango Costa, St Francis Xavier College – Labyrinth Motel
  • Mia Crombie, University of Canberra Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra – The Way the Universe Looks at You
  • Olivia Donohue, Trinity Christian School – Through a Murderer’s Eyes
  • Anum Faisal, Gungahlin College – People: Conversations with Myself
  • Stella Goppert-Cole, Lake Tuggeranong College – A Feasible Lifeline
  • Isobel Hemming, University of Canberra Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra – These Times I’m Trapped In
  • Jacinta Jade Carrera, Trinity Christian School – Fracturing The Glass
  • Katie Jakab-Van Dooren, University of Canberra Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra – A Hunt for Happiness
  • Yasmine Killeen, Lake Tuggeranong College – City of Adam
  • Riya Kinagi, Trinity Christian School – The Veil Burns
  • Simon Krupka, Daramalan College – Cyberpunk Story
  • Charli Linz, Gungahlin College – God’s Children, and Their Ghosts
  • Quinn Males, Marist College – One is Company
  • Abigail McIntosh, Canberra Girls Grammar School – Overflowing Buckets
  • Leo Moore, Canberra College – Deep Drop
  • Oscar O’Hearn, Daramalan College – The Dark Charm of the Woods
  • Dhara Petruschenko, Canberra College – Tongue
  • Eleanora Phillips, Radford College – Joyous War
  • James Raccosta, Daramalan College – Shadowed
  • Scarlet Richard-Sephton, Lake Tuggeranong College – A Journey to the New World
  • Alice Rowe, Daramalan College – Rose Without a Thorn
  • Caitlin Smith, Brindabella Christian College – Anastasia
  • Jai Van Duren, Canberra College – Perekhov
  • Caitlin Wallace, Erindale College – A Story of Wandering: The Peculiar Folk
  • Connor Watts, Brindabella Christian College – The Paradox
  • Terry Yang, Radford College – Falling
  • Hannah Zhang, Brindabella Christian College – The Red Art

Judges

ACTATE thanks the year 11 and 12 category judges, Christina Cochrane and Sandra Lambert, for their time and expertise.

Both are English teachers who also worked as educational consultants in the USA. Christina is a former ACTATE executive member and Sandra was a principal of an ACT college.