VIVIANE GERARDU AWARD 2022
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Viviane Gerardu Writing Encouragement Award
The Viviane Gerardu Writing Encouragement Award commemorates Viviane Gerardu, a member of the ACTATE community who passed away in 2020. The award honours her contribution to the teaching of English in the ACT and her championing of young writers.
2022 Viviane Gerardu Award Winner
Destiny’s Story by Louis Ryan, Year 8, Wanniassa School
The story opens in a dystopian future in the year 79n868E. From this speculative fiction story, the writer surprisingly and successfully shifts to a present-day romance that spans a lifetime. Told from both first person and third person points of view, the writer creates a distinctly relatable and sympathetic main character who expresses his untold love for his future wife through an unfinished piece of fiction. This narrative with a ‘story within a story’ is ambitious in its structure and premise, showing potential for further development.
Remembering Viviane
Viviane Gerardu was an inspirational teacher who made a difference in the lives of her students and her colleagues.
Viviane presented regularly at ACTATE professional learning events and at national conferences. Teachers always left her workshops with practical strategies and interesting resources to use with their students. She developed the Language for Understanding Across the Curriculum (LUAC) resources and presented workshops to ACT teachers from all learning areas. She has also been published widely through books such as the English Quest series and articles in ACTATE’s journal, Activate.
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