Literary excellence celebrated On Wednesday 15th Tristan Bancks (shown on as well as acting as MC for October the Presentation back cover with prize the presentation evening. Evening for the 55th Literary winner), author, actor and Competition was held at the filmmaker and guest speaker Queensland Multicultural for the evening, shared his Centre at Kangaroo Point. writing experience and some Left to right Deb Peden, very funny anecdotes, with Garry Collins and Fiona Laing With 879 entries for the the audience. competition this year, across Prize winning entries short story, poetry and Congratulations are due to and judges’ reports will fiction prose genres, the the winners, place-getters be on our website soon competition is sponsored by and highly-commended and published in ETAQ, the Independent awardees, as well as their year Words’Worth next Education Union of Australia supportive teachers. See page 4 for a special (Qld & Northern Territory Thanks are also due to Deb Awards story branches) as well as Peden who recruits the Random house and JCU. judges and coordinates events throughout the year Octoberfest delivers a great week of PD Week of enrichment for Queensland teachers! Breakfast with Adjunct Professor Roley Sussex proved a real creativity and variability. celebration of language. Roley has created an on-line dictionary of A beautiful spring day, good food diminutives. Aussies are leaders in the field with 5782 and counting. to share and great conversation Roley shared his love of the relentless informality of the Australian make this day an ETAQ favourite. language. He decided visiting Rocky would be fine for people from Roley helped us to add the take Brissie, But that we are as like to want to stretch words by calling our away of a strong understanding of speaker our Aussie English. ‘the Rolster’ or city Brizvegas. Or adapting London’s rhyming slang for our own particular location. All attest to Australia’s
Literary excellence celebrated On Wednesday 15th October the Presentation Evening for the 55th Literary Competition was held at the Queensland Multicultural Centre at Kangaroo Point. With 879 entries for the competition this year, across short story, poetry and prose genres, the competition is sponsored by ETAQ, the Independent Education Union of Australia (Qld & Northern Territory branches) as well as Random house and JCU. Tristan Bancks (shown on back cover with prize winner), author, actor and filmmaker and guest speaker for the evening, shared his writing experience and some very funny anecdotes, with the audience. Congratulations are due to the winners, place-getters and highly-commended awardees, as well as their supportive teachers. Thanks are also due to Deb Peden who recruits the judges and coordinates events throughout the year as well as acting as MC for the presentation evening. Left to right Deb Peden, Garry Collins and Fiona Laing Prize winning entries and judges’ reports will be on our website soon and published in Words’Worth next year See page 4 for a special Awards story Octoberfest delivers a great week of PD Week of enrichment for Queensland teachers! Breakfast with Adjunct Professor Roley Sussex proved a real celebration of language. Roley has created an on-line dictionary of diminutives. Aussies are leaders in the field with 5782 and counting. Roley shared his love of the relentless informality of the Australian language. He decided visiting Rocky would be fine for people from Brissie, But that we are as like to want to stretch words by calling our speaker ‘the Rolster’ or our city Brizvegas. Or adapting London’s rhyming slang for our own particular location. All attest to Australia’s creativity and variability. A beautiful spring day, good food to share and great conversation make this day an ETAQ favourite. Roley helped us to add the take away of a strong understanding of Aussie English. fiction
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