Kingston’s talented young writers have been honoured in Kingston Youth Services Ink About It 2015 Awards.
The Ink About It creative writing competition invited local youth to enter a short story, poem or song lyrics that interpreted the winning photograph in Kingston Youth Services recent photography competition Picture This.
The winning picture Autumn Snow taken by 13-year-old year-old Heatherton Christian College Year 7 student Tess McCracken features a snow-covered country road at Mt Baw Baw with a lone figure walking in the distance.
Entry was open to young people with a connection to Kingston, aged 12-25 years.
More than 100 young people entered the awards with three winners announced at a special awards night held at Parkdale’s Shirley Burke Theatre on Thursday 29 October.
First prize was awarded to 25-year-old Dingley Village resident Matthew Duigan. His short story The Silver Fox is set in a fanciful landscape that is somewhere between dream and reality, and follows the silver fox through the snow-capped woods of this mysterious realm where not everything is as it appears. Everything changes come dawn.
Second prize was awarded to 13-year-old Mordialloc resident and Year 7 Mentone Grammar student Ella Mairs. Her work Devil in Disguise is a beautiful and descriptive couplets poem that induces incredible imagery and a sense of wonder.
Third prize was given to 16-year-old Dingley Village resident and Year 10 student at Heatherton Christian College Joshua Ratten. His reflective and contemplative poem What Lies Beyond the Fog? calls for people to use challenges to lead them to greater heights.
Winners were selected by a judging panel from Kingston Youth Services and local youth.
For more information on Kingston Youth Services and the support, groups and programs provided call 1300 369 436 or visit the website at kyfs.org.au
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 18 November 2015