One of the Byron Writers Festival highlights for school students is the opportunity for budding writers to have their work read, critiqued and acknowledged by professional authors and publishers.
This year Cape Byron Steiner School student Lola Brazenor, Class 10, was thrilled to win the prestigious Southern Cross University, Student Writing prize, while runner up for the third year in a row was Elise Nikkenen, also of Cape Byron, Class 11.
Lola was given the privilege of reading her compelling story, entitled ‘Her name was not Eve’, to the audience at the Secondary School’s day at the Byron Bay Writers Festival. The judges commented on the story’s ‘quietly evocative imagery’.
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