Griffin Festival Literary Awards acknowledged Collie writing talent with the presentation of awards from the literary competition.
Author and teacher A.J Betts presented the following children with awards:
Year 1 poetry: First Allanson Kaydence Fleay, Eating Smarties.
Year 1 prose: Highly Commended Fairview Phillip Whitford, The Picnic.
Year 1 prose: First Amaroo Cahri Wilson, A Little Fairy Tale.
Year 2 poetry: Highly Commended Fairview Lily Ford, The Pony.
Year 2 poetry: First Fairview Tahlia Reichelt, Pippy-Lippy-Doo.
Year 2 prose: Highly Commended Fairview Alexis Milne,Joe and his Mother.
Year 2 prose: First Allanson Kya Digney, The Sea Cave.
Year 3 poetry: Highly Commended Allanson Dakota, Biluta Puppies.
Year 3 poetry: First Fairview Oscar Pernich, Autumn.
Year 3 prose: Highly Commended Fairview Ebony Whitney, The Explosive Toadstool.
Year 3 prose: First Fairview Jayme Clarke, The Lost Dog.
Years 4-5 poetry: Highly Commended Allanson Liam Cain, Deadly Creatures.
Years 4-5 poetry: Highly Commended Amaroo James Marsh, Waves.
Years 4-5 poetry: First Amaroo Carson Dewar, Soccer.
Years 4-5 prose: Highly Commended Fairview Mikela Faries, Fishing Gone Wrong.
Years 4-5 prose: First Amaroo Lachlan Sloan, The Flaming Toothpaste.
Years 6-7 poetry: Highly Commended Allanson Alyssa Harrold, Last Breath.
Years 6-7 poetry: First Amaroo Aspen Peel, I'm Just One Kid.
Yrs 6-7 Prose: Highly Commended Allanson Ashlinn Cain,The Secret.
Yrs 6-7 Prose: First Amaroo Olivia Putland, A Diary of My Totally Awful July School Holidays.
Yrs 8-9 Poetry: Highly Commended CSHS Taylia Noonan, Everything That Rhymes With You.
Yrs 8-9 Prose: First CSHS Taylia Noonan, Master Cortez' Travelling Circus of the Mysteries of Magic.
Adult Poetry Highly Commended Tammi Mhaistone, The Blackwood Tree.
Adult Poetry Highly Commended Catherine Curran, I Won't Be Yours.
Adult Prose First Catherine Curran, First Love.
