litlinks 2024

A creative writing competition for ACT school students and their teachers

Year 11& 12 Category, 2024

Image: A year 11 student writing on their tablet outside college.

The judges were impressed by the high calibre of the inventiveness and variety of thematic content from our Year 11 and 12 writers. They made good use of tone in building tension and sometimes skilfully surprising us with unexpected resolutions. Well-executed narrative plot lines were also fully on display.

Congratulations to all who entered.

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

Click here to read In The Spaghetti by Nina Stachurski,
Click here to read Out of Sight, Out of Mind by Emma Clark
Click here to read You Won’t Last by Toby Nitural,
Click here to read A Serendipitous Disaster by Thuruni Cooray
Click here to read An Eye for an Eye by Hannah Luff

Winners:

Shortlisted Awards:

  • Nicholas Allen, Daramalan College – Cold Shoulder
  • Alastair Cheung, Gungahlin College – Men On The Moon
  • Selwyn Giddy, Brindabella Christian College – Genesis
  • Siena Goodwin, St Clare’s College – Three Mouthfuls
  • Ashleigh Nguyen, Daramalan College – On the Horizon
  • Kyde Petrie, Gungahlin College – When The Lights Come Up
  • Tripshan Singh Dalio, St John Paul II College – The Bartender

LitLinks Achievement Awards:

  • Mirella Andrighetto, St Clare’s College – Daughter of the Throne
  • Lucy Birtles, University of Canberra Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra – The Red Balloon
  • Nerine Chung, Canberra Girls Grammar School – Writer’s Notes
  • Raya Dodd, University of Canberra Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra – Born to the Waves
  • Olivia Drew, Lake Tuggeranong College – The Watcher’s Truth
  • Ben Dunlop, Erindale College – Scarred Earth
  • Asha Ellis, Canberra College – The One
  • Tara Farrelly, St Clare’s College – Steel-tipped Stilettos
  • Lucy Ferguson, Erindale College – Phonecall
  • Josh Ford, Canberra College – To Fly Freely
  • Asherah Foxlee, University of Canberra Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra – The Organist
  • Isabella Hartley, Canberra College – The Alien
  • Alithea Heslin, Lake Tuggeranong College – What the Mirror Really Saw
  • Brianna Huby, Daramalan College – Rot From the Inside
  • Zara Islam, Narrabundah College – The Silent Struggles of Ammu
  • Leonard Katic, St John Paul II College – Thralls of Familiarity
  • Denali Lambeth, Canberra College – The Reflection
  • Beatrice Marks Watkins, Narrabundah College – Shadows Beneath the Veil
  • Niyx Merton, Erindale College – The Choice
  • Will Michael-Savoy, Gungahlin College – Walk In The Past
  • Stefan Mitrev, Erindale College – Culture Shock
  • Jennifer Noveski, Daramalan College – The Day After I Died
  • Natalie Perkovic, Lake Tuggeranong College – Potential
  • Saige Podger, Canberra Girls Grammar School – False Gods
  • Michael Pretorius, Lake Tuggeranong College – Silence = Death
  • Ben Rothenfluh, Marist College – All To Dust
  • Bridget Schmutter, Gungahlin College – Actions Have –
  • Charlotte Stockings, Hawker College – Free
  • Alyssa Taliano, Gungahlin College – Afternoon
  • Miranda Thompson, Narrabundah College – The Price of Virtue
  • Mischa Warwick, St John Paul II College – Peter Rabbit
  • Phoebe Whitfield, Daramalan College – When the Dusk Knocks at His Door
  • Rachel Winter, Narrabundah College – Charlotte’s Letter
  • Chloe Zamin, St Clare’s College – Runaway

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.