Poetry/Short Story Competition of 2007 Winners

1st

Kai Meng

Title: Hope Dreaming
Type: Poetry
Grade: 12
Penrith High School

Lauren Shannon

Title: Snow Angel
Type: Short Story
Grade: 10
St. Ursula's College

2nd

Susan Benton

Title: A Life Long Gone
Type: Poetry
Grade: 8
Holy Trinity School

Emily Bolin

Title: Fear
Type: Short Story
Grade: 8
Chandler Secondary College

Angela Carroll

Title: I, Joe's Mother
Type: Poetry
Grade: 9
Mount Carmel College

Monica Das Gupta

Title: Universal Love
Type: Short Story
Grade: 10
Ulverstone High School

Stephanie Gwynn

Title: Warped And Twisted
Type: Poetry
Grade: 9
Flora Hill Secondary College

Ella Hind

Title: Difference
Type: Short Story
Grade: 8
The Friends School

Patrick Jaffe

Title: Forever Forgotten
Type: Poetry
Grade: 3
Trinity Grammar School

Aaron Keane

Title: A Priceless Gift
Type: Poetry
Grade: 12
Lindisfarne Anglican School

Hayden Long

Title: Hot Air Balloons
Type: Poetry
Grade: 2
St Stephen's School

Harriet MacDonnell

Title: Why Whales Sing
Type: Short Story
Grade: 4
Calwell Primary School

Sarah Morris

Title: Be Back Soon
Type: Short Story
Grade: 11
The Geelong College

Angus Robertson

Title: Bits And Pieces Of Me!
Type: Poetry
Grade: 6
The Hamilton And Alexandra College

Bianca Sacco

Title: It All Faded To Grey
Type: Short Story
Grade: 9
Ballarat Secondary College

Robert Selth

Title: Souls In Riff
Type: Poetry
Grade: 11
Canberra Grammar School

Erin Stone

Title: Pixel Chix
Type: Short Story
Grade: 5
Castle Hill Public School

Amanda Thomas

Title: A Beautiful World
Type: Poetry
Grade: 5
Boneo Primary School

Kira Todd

Title: Breaking Records
Type: Short Story
Grade: 2
Glendal Primary School

Lachlan Waters

Title: The Painter
Type: Poetry
Grade: 7
St Leonard's College

Hayden Welsh

Title: D-day
Type: Poetry
Grade: 6
St. Brigid's School New Norfolk

Dallas Youles

Title: Winter
Type: Poetry
Grade: 6
Avoca Beach Public School

Anton Zhang

Title: All Alone
Type: Short Story
Grade: 8
North Sydney Boys High School

3rd

Amber Anderson

Title: Forest Friends
Type: Short Story
Grade: 2
Margaret River Primary School

Michaela Bozicevic

Title: Haunted Forest
Type: Short Story
Grade: 4
Palmwoods State School

Elijah Buckland

Title: Gold And Diamonds
Type: Poetry
Grade: 3
Huntingdale Primary School

Grace Bussey

Title: In A Fruit Bowl
Type: Poetry
Grade: 6
Presbyterian Ladies College

Nicole Charalambous

Title: The Wasted Land
Type: Poetry
Grade: 9
Narrabri High School

Maggie Chung

Title: Homely Night
Type: Poetry
Grade: 10
Camberwell High School

Sorrel Cooper

Title: The Baby Playtypus
Type: Poetry
Grade: 3
Wellers Hill State School

Stella Jean Cowan

Title: The Water Wizard
Type: Poetry
Grade: K
Derinya Primary School

Edward Dennett

Title: A Narrow Escape....
Type: Short Story
Grade: 5
Epping Heights Public School

Lenny Eisen

Title: How The Sun Started Burning
Type: Short Story
Grade: 2
Don Valley Primary School

Emmalisa Engelbrecht

Title: Solution For The Earth's Pollution
Type: Poetry
Grade: 5
Broughton Anglican College

James Falsay

Title: Peer Pressure
Type: Short Story
Grade: 8
Churchlands Senior High School

Charlie Feilen

Title: Snowflakes
Type: Poetry
Grade: 2
Ando Public School

Victoria Freeman

Title: Descriptions - On Observation
Type: Short Story
Grade: 12
The Emanuel School

Bryton Froese

Title: Nature's Wrath
Type: Short Story
Grade: 7
Kings Baptist Grammar School

Jasmine Gallagher

Title: Three Little Orphans
Type: Short Story
Grade: 5
Sunnybank Hills State School

Hasan Gilani

Title: What's That Noise?
Type: Short Story
Grade: 6
Dalkeith Primary School

Claire Gorrie

Title: Hearing The Silence
Type: Short Story
Grade: 12
Lowther Hall Anglican Grammar School

Lucy Grear

Title: The Secret Lockets
Type: Short Story
Grade: 3
Encounter Lutheran School

Chayie Groner

Title: The Paradox
Type: Short Story
Grade: 9
Beth Rivkah Ladies College

Sankalpa Gurung

Title: The First
Type: Short Story
Grade: 11
Cootamundra High School

Tayla Hamilton

Title: MATESHIP At Gallipoli (Acrostic Poem)
Type: Poetry
Grade: 6
Burwood Heights Primary School

Elisha Hammond

Title: Blue Moon
Type: Short Story
Grade: 3
Kingsway Christian College

James Harrison

Title: Clouds
Type: Poetry
Grade: 4
Tudor House School

Andrea Hartney

Title: Animal Actions
Type: Poetry
Grade: 5
Manifold Heights Primary School

Casey Haseloff

Title: Snow
Type: Poetry
Grade: 1
St Alipius Parish School

Bronte Hewes

Title: The Moon Bares Silent Witness
Type: Poetry
Grade: 9
Port Macquarie High School

Jackson Hoult

Title: Earth And Fire
Type: Short Story
Grade: 7
Larrakeyah Primary School

Kangli Hu

Title: A Night With A Monster
Type: Short Story
Grade: 6
Ivanhoe Grammar School Plenty Campus

Erika Hung

Title: The Golden Key
Type: Short Story
Grade: 5
Sunnybank Hills State School

Delara Javat

Title: See Blissful Corruption
Type: Poetry
Grade: 10
St Andrew's Grammar School

Christi Keyser

Title: Red Oak Maple
Type: Poetry
Grade: 7
Mt Carmel College

Nikita Kokurin

Title: Aqua Raiders: The First Three Raids
Type: Short Story
Grade: 2
Black Rock Primary School

Liriye Kurtovic

Title: Paranoid Mind!
Type: Short Story
Grade: 9
Cranbourne Secondary College

Cassandra Lane

Title: Nature's Habitats
Type: Poetry
Grade: 5
Eltham East Primary School

James Lay

Title: Lost Island
Type: Short Story
Grade: 4
Our Lady Help Of Christians School

Arun Lertsumitkul

Title: Climate Change: Through Aboriginal Eyes
Type: Poetry
Grade: 6
Trinity Grammar School

Jessica Liang

Title: Dreaming Of The Silver Horses
Type: Short Story
Grade: 7
Fort Street High School

Erica Manini

Title: Killer Waves!
Type: Short Story
Grade: 6
St Francis Of Assisi School

Willem Meyer

Title: The Ghost That Couldn't Scare
Type: Short Story
Grade: 6
Midland Christian School

Callum Moody

Title: The Winter
Type: Poetry
Grade: 11
Marist College

Elizabeth Morley

Title: Antarctic Wonderland
Type: Poetry
Grade: 6
Coogee South Public School

Catriona Mount

Title: Through The Tunnel Of Trees
Type: Short Story
Grade: 3
Xavier College

Lana Murphy

Title: Her Treasure
Type: Poetry
Grade: 9
Ivanhoe Grammar School

Abbey Murray

Title: Bali
Type: Poetry
Grade: 2
St Christopher's Primary School

Khanh Nguyen

Title: Morning And Night
Type: Poetry
Grade: 3
South Windsor Public School

Tai Pettiford

Title: The Mystery
Type: Short Story
Grade: 1
Syndal South Primary School

Rachel Purdy

Title: I Want To Be Free!
Type: Short Story
Grade: 5
Albany Creek State School

Mikaela Roe

Title: Seasons
Type: Poetry
Grade: 6
Port Germein Primary School

Michelle Sammut

Title: Chaos
Type: Poetry
Grade: 11
Mt St Josephs School

Laura Searson

Title: Footsteps In The Dark
Type: Short Story
Grade: 10
Heathfield High School

Natasha Serrano

Title: Till' Death Do Us Part
Type: Short Story
Grade: 6
St. Francis Xavier Primary School

Madeline Smedley

Title: The Child
Type: Poetry
Grade: 9
Mentone Girls Secondary College

Emily Smith

Title: Impossible Is Nothing!!!
Type: Poetry
Grade: 6
Forrest Primary School

Courtney Spowart

Title: Teacher Trouble
Type: Short Story
Grade: 7
O'Connor Catholic High School

Mattea Taylor

Title: Phantom Of The Moon
Type: Short Story
Grade: 10
School Of Isolated And Distance Education

Maxim Tooker

Title: Love & Grief
Type: Poetry
Grade: 8
Taroona High School

Emily Toshack

Title: Eyes
Type: Poetry
Grade: 4
Sacred Heart Primary School

Emelia Tsaknis

Title: The Perfect Place To Be
Type: Poetry
Grade: 6
Regina Coeli Primary School

Xanthi Tsaknis

Title: My Paradise
Type: Poetry
Grade: 8
St Ursula's College

Harry Tuit

Title: The Obviously Badly Planned Invasion
Type: Short Story
Grade: 4
Willoughby Public School

Mariaan Turner

Title: Memories
Type: Poetry
Grade: 6
Tylden Primary School

Taynissa Vakeeswaran

Title: The Mystery Of Music
Type: Poetry
Grade: 4
Meriden School

Richard Wachsmann

Title: We Are Equal
Type: Poetry
Grade: 5
North Ryde Primary School

Declan Wakefield

Title: Dracula Saw-ras
Type: Poetry
Grade: 1
Glendal Primary School

Stephen Waterhouse

Title: Hunting
Type: Short Story
Grade: 9
St. John's College

Isabel Watt

Title: Ocean
Type: Poetry
Grade: 11
Brigidine College

Ashleigh Webb

Title: Shipwrecked
Type: Poetry
Grade: 7
Loreto Kirribilli

Meg Webster

Title: I Never Did Like Mondays
Type: Short Story
Grade: 5
St John's Lutheran School

Stevie West

Title: Who?
Type: Poetry
Grade: 4
Overnewton Anglican Community College

Ethan Wilde

Title: What Is A Million?
Type: Poetry
Grade: 5
Southwood Boys Grammar School

Miranda Williams

Title: Ultimately We
Type: Poetry
Grade: 5
Porepunkah Primary School

Jade Wilson

Title: Oceania
Type: Short Story
Grade: 7
St Andrew's Lutheran College

Jocelyn Yee

Title: A King's Epiphany
Type: Short Story
Grade: 12
Canberra Girls Grammar School

Rebecca Yee

Title: The Multicltural Australia, My Homeland
Type: Poetry
Grade: 6
Strathfield South Public School

Brianna Young

Title: Seaweed
Type: Poetry
Grade: 9
Hawkesdale P-12 College

Javier Alexander Zentner Cross

Title: Mythical Bank
Type: Poetry
Grade: 3

Byron Zhou

Title: Disaster!
Type: Short Story
Grade: 5
Picnic Point Public School

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