Writing Prize winners

2024

‘The Huia’ by Waihīrere Ngāhuia Hakaraia, home-schooled, Palmerston North.
Published in Toitoi 34, 2024.

2023

Ahumai Te Paerata’ by Sophie Vare, Berkley Middle School, Hamilton.
Published in Toitoi 33, Spring 2023.

2022

Boy and the Grasshopper‘ by Emma Geddes, St Andrews College, Christchurch.
Published in Toitoi 29, November 2022.

2020

Far from Home’  by Heidi Wang, Kohia Terrace School, Auckland.
Published in the Level 4 School Journal, November 2020. Text and illustrations copyright © Crown.

 2018

‘Save Our Sheep’  by Gemma Lovewell, Adventure School, Porirua.
Published in the Level 4 School Journal, November 2018. Text and illustrations copyright © Crown.

image of a maori girl sitting on a rock, looking behind her at a moa.2017

‘The Moa’  by Lucy Buchanan, Matamata Intermediate School.
Published in the November 2017 Level 4 School Journal. Text and illustrations copyright © Crown.

Illustration of two girls, one black, one white in front of a protest. Signs in the backgound say end apartheid for good.2016

‘Mirror Image’  by Julia Randerson, Ridgway School, Wellington.
Published in the October 2016 Level 4 School Journal. Text and illustrations copyright © Crown.


2015

Mr Archibald’  by Oliver McLean, Arrowtown School, Arrowtown.
Published in the School Journal Series later this year. Text and illustrations copyright © Crown.

 

Close-To-The-Edge2014

Close To The Edge’  by Cecile Kruger, Stirling Primary School, South Otago.
Published in the School Journal Series. Text and illustrations copyright © Crown.

Past-Present-Future2012

Past, Present, and Future’  by Charlotte Williams, Ross Intermediate School, Palmerston North.
Published in the School Journal Series by Learning Media Limited for the Ministry of Education. Copyright © Charlotte Williams 2012.

2011

Too Close To The Wind’ by Cate Hensen, Cardinal McKeefry School, Wellington. 
Published in the School Journal Series by Learning Media Limited for the Ministry of Education. Copyright © Cate Hensen 2011...

2010

The Half Crown’ by Claudia Murray, Renwick School, Marlborough.
Published in the School Journal Series by Learning Media Limited for the Ministry of Education. Copyright © Claudia Murray 2010.

War Games2009

‘War Games’ by Cileme Aroha Venkateswar, Ross Intermediate School, Palmerston North.
Published in the School Journal Series by Learning Media Limited for the Ministry of Education. Copyright © Cileme Aroha Venkateswar 2009.Save

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