Teachers as Writers

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.

• Winner: Cicada Season by Megan Cartwright, Hawker College
• Highly Commended: The Mountains by Lainie Steer, Canberra College

• 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