More winners of the Ursula Moray Williams centenary year creative writing competition

Congratulations to the prizewinners:

Year 1-3
1st Holly Bamber, Timaru (Bluestone School) for 'Intruders on Zing Zang Island'
2nd Hope Lovely, (Waimataitai School) for ‘The magic tree'

Year 4-6
1st Aimee King (Waimataitai School) for 'Steve the explorer and the underwater monkeys'
2nd Esther Shaw, Geraldine (Home educated) for 'Happiness is more important than what you look like'

Year 7-8
1st Mafoa Siale, Timaru (Bluestone School) for ‘Winter’
2nd James MacKenzie, Timaru (Bluestone School) for ‘The storm’

Year 9-10
1st Aaron Braczek, Geraldine (Geraldine High School) for 'Never trust a gypsy'

Year11-13
1st Susanna Blogg, Geraldine (Home educated) for 'Close encounter with the third kind'
2nd Rebekah Blogg, Geraldine (Home educated) for ‘Dancing Breeze'

Special thanks to Colin Davison, the Friends of the Library and Aoraki South Canterbury Reading Association for their support.

Winner of the Ursula Moray Williams Cup 2011

Congratulations to Mafoa Siale, Winner of the Ursula Moray Williams Cup for Children’s Writing!!!! Mafoa, from Bluestone School, was also winner of the Year 7-8 category for her story "Winter". UK judge Colin Davison awarded the prize to Mafoa's story "for its wonderful use of language, that reminded me of the power of folk legends".

Many thanks to Colin Davison, The Friends of the Library and Aoraki Reading Association South Canterbury for their support for this competition.



Origami and stories

Yasuko Ohbayashi from Eniwa, our Sister City in Japan, will be visiting the Children’s Library in Timaru on Thursday
15 December 2011 from 3:30 – 5pm.
Come along and join the fun!