Year 11 & 12 Writers

This year’s entries covered a broad range of disturbing and at times grim subject matter.

The judges were challenged in deciding winning entries due to the high standard of submissions with excellent use of language and imagery, and coherent narrative structure. They also noted that word selection and sentence construction were indicative of the developing maturity of senior student writers.

Congratulations to all the writers who entered. 

• Winner: To the Man who Murdered my Parents…. by Elisabeth Gregory, Radford College
• Highly Commended: A Separation of Mind and Body by Asha Patterson, Daramalan College
• Judges’ Choice: A Harvest of Misery by George Line, Narrabundah College
• Speculative Fiction Award: The Palm by Max Van Den Boogaard, UC Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra

• Madi Aiken, Gungahlin College – Paper Girls
• Arbiya Chowdhury, Hawker College – Inside the Box
• Grace Davey, UC Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra – The difference between Type As and Type Bs on Planet M-63
• Toby Davis, Hawker College – Shells of Atonement
• Lily Doyle, UC Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra – The Textbook
• Phoebe Emerson, Merici College – Utopia
• Maxwell Etherington, Brindabella Christian College – Funding Happiness
• Maia French, Brindabella Christian College – Short Story
• Eva Goswell, Brindabella Christian College – The Hours
• Eva Goswell, Brindabella Christian College – Poetry Addressing Substance Abuse, An Anthology
• Beth Grange, Daramalan College – Silent Mushrooms
• Jessica Hill, Hawker College – Awakening
• Gabriella Jukić, Daramalan College – Alone
• Emma Kelly, Daramalan College – Sudden Realisation
• Rove Leske, Hawker College – Diabolus in Musica
• Jeffrey Liang, Radford College – Yongheng (Eternity)
• George Line, Narrabundah College – One Stubborn Baby
• Julia Murphy, Canberra College – Queens of the Universe
• Ashlea Nissen, UC Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra – The Reminder
• Thomas Overs, Radford College – No Man’s Land
• Lily Papandrea, Lake Tuggeranong College – A Raven’s Tale
• Georgina Ray, Daramalan College – Lost and Found
• Svetlana Ross, Canberra College – Sealed in Ink
• Sonia Vlatkovic, Radford College – Atonement
• Sonia Vlatkovic, Radford College – Deliverance
• Will Vuckovic, Hawker College – La Chute de l’Ancien
• Robert White, Melba Copland Secondary School – A Flogging
• Lachlan Wise, Melba Copland Secondary School – Playing a Final
• Grace Wright, UC Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra – The Bubble

ACTATE thanks the years 11 and 12 category judges, Janet Rickwood and Dennis Flannery, for their time and expertise. Janet and Dennis are both English teachers, ACTATE life members, and former ACTATE presidents and school principals.