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The 2023 A Story in Miniature writing competition has drawn to a close and we received over 331 entries from over 100 schools across Victoria!
Thank you to each person who entered our writing competition. The judging panel was impressed with the range of stories and the interesting appraochces that each person took toward creating their own story in miniature.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners and runners-up for the A Story in Miniature competition. Congratulations to each one!
You can read each of the entries below. The winning entries will also be published in the final edition of Idiom later this year.
Year 7 and 8 category
There were 144 entries in this category
Winner
Zaara Khayer (Year 8, University High School) – ‘Number Twenty-Three’
Runner-up
Selena Feng (Year 8, Methodist Ladies' College) – ‘Gentle Night’
Year 9 and 10 category
There were 109 entries in this category
Winner
Joshua Grace (Year 9, Carwatha P-12 College) – ‘Feathers of Serendipity’
Runner-up
David Wang (Year 10, Melbourne High School) – ‘The Businessman’s Lavatory’
Year 11 and 12 category
There were 47 entries in this category
Winner
Emma Wu (Year 12, Presbyterian Ladies’ College) – 'Metamorphosis’
Runner-up
Matilda Crosbie (Year 11, Braybrook College) – ‘Impermanence’
Teacher category
There were 31 entries in this category
Winner
Anna Carrig (Northcote High School) – ‘An Exchange’
Runner-up
Dean Millard (Caroline Chisholm Catholic College) – 'The Mess'
Click here to view the 2022 winners and runners up.
You can continue to access the A Story in Miniature teaching resource, which includes annotated examples of the winning entries from 2022, ideas for teaching the themes of each story, discussion questions, and writing activities mapped to each of the winning entries, through the 'Resources' section of your VATE account. To access the resource, log into your VATE account in the top righthand corner and under your name click 'Resources'. You will see the resource in the results that pop up or you can click here if you are already logged in.