FOR the first time one entrant has won both poetry and short story categories in the same year of the River of Stories competition for Border high school students.
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Trinity Anglican College year 8 Lois Beloved was stunned to claim the double after moving to Thurgoona from Newcastle late last year.
“I had never been in a writing competition like this before, so it was amazing to win both the short story and the poetry competition (for year 7 to 8s),” Lois, 12, said.
Her poem was about a troubled girl and her story was set inside a video game.
Lois shared the poetry gong with Louise Denton (Albury High), while St Paul’s College Isabella Brunt won that section for year 9-10s.
Wodonga Middle Years College’s Ashleigh Hall won the senior short story.
