litlinks 2021

A creative writing competition for ACT school students and their teachers

Year 9 & 10 Category, 2021

A group of year 9 and 10 students reading and writing in the library.

The year 9 and 10 writers pursued sophisticated themes and concepts in their narratives this year. Much of the writing reflected the uncertainty of our present situation in the midst of Covid.

The judges noted that the most successful pieces combined authentic voice and conscious control of language while maintaining plot development.

Click on the images and links below to explore the winners in the Years 9 & 10 Category:

Click here to read Blue All the Way Down by Matilda Jenkins
Click here to read A Perfect Pair of Polar Opposites by Einjhel Nues
Click here to read The Funny Guy by Kane Lawson
Click here to read The Itches by Jamie Newton

Winners:

Shortlisted Awards:

  • Ebony Moss, Trinity Christian School – When the Windows Were Lit
  • Arden Pekkarinen, University of Canberra High School Kaleen – The Sword
  • Jillian Petrie, Harrison School – Death is a Deer

LitLinks Achievement Awards:

  • Mishthi Ahuja, Canberra Girls Grammar School – 21st Night – Act II, Scene V
  • Alysia Anderson, Lyneham High School – Freedom is Not a Sin
  • Anahid Andisheh Far, Campbell High School – Sequestered Carnation
  • Bailey Atherton, Namadgi School – Over a Hundred Years
  • Annica Barber, Canberra Girls Grammar School – Dear Friend
  • Eleison Bejar, Gungahlin College – Talking with a Narrator
  • Niamh Bidwell, Canberra High School – Bunty and Noah
  • Mina Buerger, Harrison School – Annabelle
  • Oliver Cameron, Harrison School – Hard Anger
  • Rahil Chand, Campbell High School – Repress for ‘It’
  • Lucas Coad, Lanyon High School – Strange Love
  • Benjamin Dunlop, Wanniassa School – The Deadliest Sin
  • Eloise Flynn, Radford College – Quarantined
  • Aidan Guinness, Campbell High School – The Automobile Problem
  • Charlotte Hermes, Namadgi School – Growing Pains
  • Amy Herron, Namadgi School – Orange Clouds
  • May Howard, University of Canberra High School Kaleen – Run
  • Ella Husking, Calwell High School – The Alpha Wolf’s Rogue
  • Himara Jayasekera-Peiris, Canberra Girls Grammar School – The Wolves of St Catherine’s
  • Seyara Karunaratne, Burgmann Anglican School – By My Side Till We Die
  • Zackary Kilian, Melba Copland Secondary School – Realities of War
  • Mion Kirk, Radford College – The Daffodil
  • Simon Krupka, Daramalan College – Shark
  • Amelia Lamarche, Harrison School – September 17, 2011
  • Jason Lua-Xia, Radford College – Wasted Sea
  • Aurelia Macsi, Mount Stromlo High School – The Silence That Came at Twilight
  • Belinda Matthews, Mount Stromlo High School – The Letter
  • Blake Miller, University of Canberra High School Kaleen – Depressed
  • Eve Mouthaan, Alfred Deakin High School – The Diary of a Writer
  • Jada Nazzari, Harrison School – The Sun Who Comes To Play
  • Lucy O’Neill, Daramalan College – Murder
  • Alicia Patt, Campbell High School – Die Telefonzelle
  • Natasha Perkovic, Lanyon High School – In My Head
  • Aimee Perrett, Daramalan College – Letters to Elinor
  • Hiba Rasheed, St Clare’s College – The Golden Rule
  • Rose Taylor, St Clare’s College – The Concept of Voicelessness
  • Amelie Treeby, Campbell High School – The Bridge
  • Josie Truswell, Radford College – Coming Home
  • Brianna Udovisi, Mount Stromlo High School – Dreams of a Poet
  • Theodore Walsh, Namadgi School – The Invisible Death
  • Hunter Waskiw, Harrison School – A Patriot
  • Terry Yang, Radford College – Chosen

Judges

ACTATE thanks the year 9 and 10 category judges, Susan Barr and Beth Mitchell, for their time and expertise.

Susan Barr is an ACTATE life member, English teacher and former ACTATE president while Beth Mitchell is an English teacher, former principal and ACTATE executive member.