Pictured L-R: Layla O’Callaghan, Elly Miechel, Lila Plunkett and Ben Shelton. (Absent: Alice Bourchier and Class of 2019 student Miya Smith).
On Saturday, July 25 the Furphy聽Literary Award winners were announced via an online presentation ceremony. Some 230 short stories and poems from young people in the 糖心传媒 were judged in this year鈥檚 competition. Categories for the Junior and Youth ages included Junior (12 and under) Short Story, Youth (13-18) Short Story and Youth (13-18) Poetry. Of the 9 place getters聽across the 3 categories, 7 were GVGS students, and in addition to this, a number of GVGS students were 聽in the various categories. Congratulations聽to聽the following students:
Youth Short Story:聽Elly Miechel聽(Year 12/pictured below) won first prize in the Youth Short Story category with her entry titled 鈥淎n Atlantic Night鈥�.聽In second place with her entry titled 鈥淎 Perfect Coincidence鈥� was Notre Dame College鈥檚, Sophie Campisi. In third place was Layla O鈥機allaghan (Year 9) with 鈥淭o Love a Faery鈥�. There were 56 entrants in the Youth Short Story category.
Youth Poetry: In the Youth Poetry category, a total of 57 entries were received. First prize was won by Miya Smith (GVGS Class of 2019) with her poem titled 鈥淧ersimmons鈥�. Ben Shelton (Year 9), came in second with 鈥淐olours of a Lakeside Life鈥� and Layla O鈥機allaghan聽(Year 9) was third with 鈥淭he Flavours of Demurity鈥�.
Junior Short Story:聽A total of 115 entrants submitted works for the Junior Short Story, First prize was awarded to Lila Plunkett (Year 5/ pictured above) for her work titled 鈥淥ff Track鈥�. Second place went to Alice Bourchier聽 (Year 7) for 鈥淔ortune Favours the Bold鈥� and third place went to Riley Wooster of Shepparton East Primary School for 鈥淭he Miners Hat鈥�.
The winning stories are available to read via website.