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2007 Award winner : Chloë Nannestad – (Year 12, Epsom Girls Grammar School, Auckland) – ‘Mosaic’

2007 Recording Prize Winner : Shannyn Boyd – (Year 12, Hutt Valley High School, Lower Hutt) – ‘The Pact’

Poetry Finalists:

Finalist : Michaela Ball – (Year 13, Cashmere High School, Christchurch) – ‘Scarlet Lips’

Finalist : Sue Mun Huang – (Year 12, Karamu High School, Hastings) – ‘Father, PhD’

Finalist : Laura Lincoln – (Yr 12, Karamu High School, Hastings) – ‘So here we are’

Finalist : Zoe Newman – (Year 13, Dargaville High School) – ‘Something less than nothing (but still I kiss you silver)’

Finalist : Michael Trigg – (Year 13, Wellington College) – ‘Act One’

Finalist : Alisha Vara – (Year 13, Rangi Ruru Girls’ School, Christchurch) – ‘Lifetime(s)’

Finalist : Sam Wells – (Year 12, Wellington College) – ‘Lazy Boy’

Finalist : Sarah Zydervelt – (Year 12, Nayland College, Nelson) – ‘A Leaving Message (For Eriko)’

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