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The Tim Winton Award for Young Writers
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The City of Subiaco has conducted and sponsored the Tim Winton Award for Young Writers since 1992. Each year the award attracts a large number of entries from school students across the metropolitan area.
The competition is launched in February each year with posters and entry forms distributed to every school and public library in the Perth metropolitan area. Entries must be in prose and may be of any length up to 2,000 words. Only one entry per person is allowed and joint entries are not accepted.
2009 Tim Winton Award winners announced
The city congratulates all the talented young novelists who entered the 2009 City of Subiaco Tim Winton Award for Young Writers.
This year’s Outstanding achievement award, was presented to fifteen-year-old Rachel Hao of St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls, for her insightfully written piece, The piano man.
Rachel was one of 1,663 primary and secondary school students from across Perth who entered the annual award, which aims to encourage creativity and imagination among young writers.
The judges commented on how impressed they were by the quality of this year’s entries, and described the articles as ‘varied’ and ‘interesting’.
Award patron and acclaimed author, Tim Winton, presented finalists with prizes donated by local sponsors Child Education Services Bookshop, Dymocks Subiaco and The Lane Bookshop.
Please scroll down to read the first prize winners stories.
Other finalists included:
Lower primary
- Kayla Houareau, aged seven from North Woodvale Primary School – first prize
- Arman Puri, aged six from Wesley College – second prize
- Elani Boog, aged six from Nedlands Primary School – third prize
Middle primary
- Rachel Denham-White, aged ten from Helena College Junior School – first prize
- Charlotte Martin, aged nine from St Thomas’ Primary School – second prize
- Nicola Thomas, aged ten from Churchlands Primary School – third prize
Upper primary
- Jane Blechynden, aged twelve from Mount Hawthorn Primary School – first prize
- Emily Low, aged eleven from Holy Spirit School – second prize
- Joshua Smith, aged eleven from Emmanuel Catholic College – third prize
Lower secondary
- Rachel Hao, aged fifteen from St Hilda's Angilcan School for Girls - first place
- Anna-Rose Shack, aged fourteen from Penrhos College – second prize
- Nathan Simich, aged thirteen from CBC Fremantle – third prize
Upper secondary
- Zoe Krisnadi, aged sixteen from St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls – first prize
- Rachel Harkness, aged seventeen from Carey Baptist College – second prize
- Rebecca Taylor, aged fifteen from Shenton College – third prize
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About the Tim Winton Awards
Fostering youth involvement in the literary arts, the award encourages creativity and imagination, and provides young writers with an opportunity to develop their writing skills. In 2000, the Fremantle Arts Centre Press approached the city with a view to compiling an anthology of past winners. This came together as the book, Destination Unknown, a collection of eleven stories with a fantasy theme. Due to the success of Destination Unknown, a second anthology, Life Bytes, was compiled in 2002.
The city would like to acknowledge the generous support of our sponsors the Lane Bookshop, Dymocks Subiaco and Child Education Services Bookshop, who donate book vouchers as prizes to all the winners.
The city is extremely honoured to have the continuing support from the award’s patron Tim Winton. Tim is one of Australia's foremost authors with a strong local and international reputation.
For more information please contact the library on 9381 5088.
Previous winning entries
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