A 14 year old school student from Flynn has today been announced as a finalist for the John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers.
Ingrid Brett was chosen from 600 entrants from around Australia for her poem, “My Name is Growing.”
Winners of each category will be announced by Marsden as part of the 2012 Express Media Awards on Friday, December 7, from 6pm at the Wheeler Centre inMelbourne.
Winners share in $5,500 of prize money and are also published online at Express Media and in the December issue of Voiceworks magazine.
The full list of finalists is as follows:
18 24 Short Story/First chapter of a novel
Rebecca Howden (24) Friend
Rafael SW (22) Distance is Relative
Ekaterina Tretiakova (21) Poppies
Stacey Malacari (22) Hope Rose
18- 24 Poetry
Michael Blake (23) Nugent
Madelaine Lucas (22) Memory is Tidal
Zoe Taylor (23) Stroke
Paul Ferlitsch (22) For Katie
Anders Villani (23) with a girl who loves life but hates camping
Louise Millar (21) Dear,
Under 18 Short Story/First chapter of a novel
Bethia Sun (13) Decipher Defect
Lauren Pearce (17) Home, Where Birds Won’t Fly
Eliza Janssen (16) The Other Ampersand
Elliot Seidel (16) Wishing Hole
Lucy Vanderstelt Gu (15) Farewell Mariner, Goodbye Teenager
Under 18 Poetry
Karen Liu (14) The Rain
Ingrid Brett (14) My Name is Growing
Tess McPhail (17) 6.59am
Maille Halloran Mackay (17) So be it and sonnet
Amin Olson (15) The Wanderer
To book a FREE ticket to the Express Media Awards night, visit www.expressmedia.org.au.
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