David Camp – Head of English

Student Writing

Throughout the year there are always writing competitions to enter and plenty of chances to practise your creative writing. Most of these competitions have closed for the year, though the Somerset Novella Writing Competition is still open if you have been working on something longer. Details at the following website: www.somerset.qld.edu.au/celebration-of-literature/competitions/novella-writing/

Below are some recent writings from two of our students:

Miriam Itzkowitz – Year 8

The Rainbow

As I walk down the street on a cloudy day

The world stops

Everything is there for me

The blooming flowers

The swaying trees

The dew drops

They freeze for me

Rain starts pouring

It’s surreal

I’m in love

I’m already out

I can’t stop

But the rain keeps coming and coming

I hide under a big tree

Hours and hours go by

Until the sun comes out

Then comes a rainbow

The most amazing splashes of colour in the sky

All there for me

I dance and look around

It’s as though a paintbrush has coloured the entire universe

The clouds are gone

And I walk home

Miriam Itzkowitz

Hannah Rubenstein – Year 10

Puppets 

They all move the same 

They’re nothing but puppets 

With strings on their backs 

They’re nothing but muppets 

With painted-on faces

Corsets, fancy dresses 

Following each others’ moves

Drawn into peer pressures 

Dancing and swaying

To the same fixed rhythm 

With their knee high socks 

Hair tied up with ribbon 

I cannot be like them 

I will not be a muppet 

I am me, and only me 

I will not be a puppet 

Hannah Rubenstein