Poetry Awards and English Prizes
Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards
This year the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards celebrated their 40th anniversary. They received over 7000 entries into this prestigious national competition. We are so proud of each of the SCEGGS students who participated in this competition.
In the Senior Secondary section of the competition:
- Gabrielle Cunningham (Year 12) was shortlisted for her poem “So he says (but what does Helene Cixous Say?)” and Highly Commended for her poem “Woman: The Derivative.”
- Eleanor Lawrie (Year 11) was Commended for her poem “Fruit Bat.”
- Georgia O’Keefe (Year 10 ) was also Highly Commended for her poem “Immortal Beauty.”
- Sophie Henderson (Year 7) was Highly Commended for her poem “Still Dreaming.”
Congratulations to each of these students, this is a very impressive achievement!
Year 7 – 10 Speech Night Prizes
Each year SCEGGS invites students in Year 7 – 10 to submit their creative fiction and poetry writing into the Betty Behan Memorial Prize for Short Story and Gwen Cockell Prize for Creative Writing (awarded for Poetry). Named in honour of an old girl and former English teacher, these prizes are awarded at Speech Night and are a wonderful way of celebrating the writing of our students. Winning entries and extracts of commended pieces of work are also published each year in the Lux magazine.
Students are invited to submit work that they have completed in class, or which they have worked on independently over the year. Each year we are thrilled to have so many entries from the talented writers at SCEGGS. The closing date for entries is Term 4 Friday 25 October (Week 2). Students can follow the link to read the instructions, upload their work and read winning entries from previous years.
Red Room’s Poetry Forest Competition
The competition encourages students to compose poems which have a positive message on climate change.
This competition is open until Friday 27 September.
More information can be found here.
Jenny Bean
Head of English
