litlinks 2023

A creative writing competition for ACT school students and their teachers

Teachers as Writers, 2023

Image: A teacher writing in a notebook.

Now in its third year, the LitLinks ‘Teachers as Writers’ category provides an opportunity for ACT English teachers to showcase their own writing talent. In partnership with Marion, and as an extension of ACTATE’s biannual ‘Teachers as Writers’ sessions, this category encourages teachers to experiment and practise with the strategies that they use in their own teaching. Research shows that the best teachers of writing are writers themselves.

This year’s entries gave us taut, haunting and visceral writing in a variety of genres, on a wide range of subjects.

We congratulate the winners, and thank one and all for sharing their art in the 2023 Competition.

Click on the images and links below to explore the winners in the Years Teachers as Writers Category:

Click here to read Cicada Season by Megan Cartwright
Click here to read The Mountains by Lainie Steer

Winners:

Achievement Awards

  • Joanne Cook, Amaroo School – The Murderer
  • Mercy Dembetembe, Canberra University – The Ark of a Diver
  • Ryan Lindsay, Gungahlin College – In Bloom
  • Errol Televantos, Wanniassa School – Floating Shards

 

Judges

ACTATE thanks Katy Mutton and Emma Batchelor, the ‘Teachers as Writers’ category judges.

Katy is a visual artist, CEO of Marion, and a writing and publishing industry advocate.

Emma is an author and a member of Marion. She is an ACT Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge ambassador and a Member of the Minister’s Creative Council.