South Dubbo’s Malia Pring (front) after her recent second-place in the prestigious 2024 Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards. Celebrating the triumph with Malia, are her ecstatic classmates, James Wilson, Isobel Donald, Jerusha Thampan, Gemma Elbourne-Binns, Bellah Richardson, Abigail Dwyer, Breanna Stroud-Seaman, Jemma Lack, Peri Ferres, Miriam Weir, Flynn Duggan and Neero Gozun. Photo: Supplied
Young Malia Pring is a poet, and now the whole nation knows it!
Dubbo South Public School’s Year 5 literary prodigy was recently awarded runner-up of the Upper Primary Section in Australia’s longest-running annual poetry competition for school children.
Her highly-impressive free-form work, “The Whisper Leaves”, was singled out among 2790 submissions in the Upper Primary Section – and ...
