One Huge Factor: Gold Coast teen Harriet McIvor has clinched first place within the Years 11-12 non-fiction prose class of Queensland’s 66-year-old Literary Competitors for her transferring piece To the child in mattress 7A.
4 different locals additionally took out prime awards.
What’s Occurring: The annual contest, run by the Impartial Training Union–Queensland & NT and the English Lecturers’ Affiliation of Queensland, drew greater than 1,500 poems, brief tales and essays from college students statewide.
Why It Issues: The occasion is Australia’s longest-running faculty writing contest, fostering storytelling expertise and giving younger authors a statewide platform.
What They Mentioned: “To the child in mattress 7A is a mirrored image on a relationship shaped on a hospital ward, and the methods one helps the opposite in small, profound methods,” decide Jeffrey Lewis stated.
“Constructed with grace and care, I encourage readers to get tissues prepared earlier than they begin.”
“Now in its 66th 12 months, the Literary Competitors stays the oldest persevering with writing competitors in Queensland and is open to college students and employees in each state and non-government faculties,” ETAQ president Carley Elliott stated.
Native Impression: McIvor’s win capped a robust evening for the Coast with different native winners together with:
