The Sydney Morning Herald Youngest Writer of the Year Award
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

The Sydney Morning Herald Youngest Writer of the Year Award was a writing competition for primary students.

Notes

  • 'A new addition in 2012 to the Herald's Young Writer family of writing competitions, Youngest Writer: WriteOn is for NSW students in Years 1-6 and is designed to encourage students to develop their writing skills. Inspired by [a photograph], students submitted short written works of up to 500 words.

    Source: Sydney Morning Herald Youngest Writer: WriteOn webpage, New South Wales Board of Studies website, http://smhyoungestwriter.bos.nsw.edu.au/
    Sighted: 29/10/2012

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2012

inaugural winner Am I a Rubbish Dump? Hannah Arnold , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 October 2012; (p. 36)
VIEW ALL LISTED RECIPIENTS (1)
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