We are excited to announce the winners of the 2024 Beyond the Page Tamariki Writing Competition!
As part of Beyond the Page 2024 we were very excited to run our first ever Tamariki Writing Competition.
The aim of this competition was to encourage tamariki to get creative over the holidays and experiment with different kinds of storytelling – any forms of writing around the theme were accepted: plays, short stories, poetry, comics, and more! The winners will be featured in our 2024 Writing Competition Anthology, available soon from a library near you!
This theme for 2024 was “Exploration”.
A huge thank you to everyone who participated – your creativity and imagination blew us away. In 2024, we had two categories:
- Ages 5–8
- Ages 9–13
We are proud to have 10 winners in each category whose work will be published in the anthology:
Ages 5–8
- Elliot Cooke
- Emma Robinson
- Holly Brooking
- Isabelle Wheeler
- Jasper Haobin Cao
- Milaan Brough
- Nadia Beban
- Ramona Robinson
- Sonia Gargee Ghosh
- Valerie Hannalla
Ages 9–13
- Bill Kelly
- Anna*
- Lena Maes
- Sophia Le
- Sameen*
- Max Tai
- Willow McIndoe
- Jeremiah Ayan Samuel
- Tui Blanch
- Katie Hooks
*Please note some writers have chosen to be published under a pseudonym.
Thank you again to everyone who entered – we’re so proud of all your amazing work. Keep writing, and we hope to see you in future competitions!