{"id":11435,"date":"2023-07-20T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T01:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/?post_type=article&#038;p=11435"},"modified":"2023-07-20T12:04:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T01:04:47","slug":"sceggs-writers-shortlisted-for-the-what-matters-writing-competition","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/article\/sceggs-writers-shortlisted-for-the-what-matters-writing-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"SCEGGS writers shortlisted for the \u201cWhat Matters?\u201d Writing Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that <strong>Anna Slack (Year 6)<\/strong> and <strong>Georgia O\u2019Keefe (Year 9)<\/strong> have both been shortlisted in the \u201cWhat Matters?\u201d writing competition. Run by the Whitman Institute, this competition asks students to write 500 word pieces on a topic that they are passionate about. Anna wrote about the importance of the written word throughout history and its ability to encourage vital societal discussion and debate. Georgia drew from Sylvia Plath\u2019s conceit comparing opportunities to figs on a tree in order to explore the temporal and precious nature of the opportunities we are given in our life. We are very proud of the thoughtful and passionate pieces of writing and wish Anna and Georgia all the best as the shortlist is judged before the winners are announced in September. All shortlisted entries can be read at the Whitlam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitlam.org\/what-matters\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Bean<br \/>\nHead of English<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that Anna Slack (Year 6) and Georgia O\u2019Keefe (Year 9) have both been shortlisted in the \u201cWhat Matters?\u201d writing competition. Run by the Whitman Institute, this competition asks students to write 500 word pieces on a topic that they are passionate about. Anna wrote about the importance of the written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[110],"class_list":["post-11435","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/11435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=11435"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=11435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}