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Writing Competition (2002) - The ABC Meets the Live Poets
As a way of
celebrating the ABC's 70th year of broadcasting, we invited
supporters to use verse as a way of recording their personal
connection with the ABC.
We received
more than 20 entries in the open section. Finalists in this
section competed for a performance prize at a meeting Live
Poets in Lismore on September 18. There were over 20 entries
in the secondary section and more than100 entries in the primary
section.
Prizes were
generously donated by the ABC Centre, Dymocks, Noah's Ark
and Uni Co-op Bookstores in Lismore. Judges were Dr Robert
Smith and Dr Janie Conway-Herron from Southern Cross University,
Neville Jennings, Davis Hallett, Bev Fairley and Anita Laffranchi.
The
branch extends its thanks to the Lismore and Tweed-Ballina
District Offices of the Department of Education and Training
and the Catholic Education Office (Lismore Diocese) for promoting
the competition. Class entries were sent in from Clunes Primary
School, Catherine McAuley College (Grafton). Lismore Public
School, Murwillumbah Primary School, Pottsville Beach Primary
School and St Carthages Primary School.
Winners!
Open Section: Barbara Taylor of Nimbin - "Oceans
of Ethnic Harmony"
Performance Section: Catherine Stewart of Lismore
- "On Occasion"
Secondary Section: Kim Vidler of Alstonville High
- "The Lone Reporter"
Primary
Section:
Amy
Carroll of Murwillumbah Primary School - "ABC"
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