Our Russley writers have had some fantastic successes this year! You can read more about them at the links below:
The Toy Press - UK children’s literary magazine
The following students have had poems accepted for publication in the UK magazine The Toy Press:
- Kimberly Boycott, The Adventurer
- Lily Burgess, Emi the Sweet Guinea Pig
- Claire Beedie, The New Zealand Forest
- Haylee Greene, Sheldon the Iconic Turtle
- Maddie Todd, Hot sand sizzling underneath my bare feet
- Rongo Henderson, Don't Go Out at Midnight
- Tyler Ryan, The Owl
Little Thoughts Press | USA children’s literary magazine, based in Baltimore, Maryland
These students selected for publication in the print issue of Little Thoughts Press - ‘In the Dark’ scheduled for publication late October:
- Libby Greenall, The Cat in the Dark (poem + illustration) (TW6)
- Tyler Ryan - In the Dark (poem) (TW5)
These students poems have been selected for e-published on Little Thoughts Press blog with interview:
- TayJe Bangu, Walking Through Midnight Dark
- Rongo Henderson, My Dinosaur in the Dark Adventure
- Maddison Huang, In the Dark
- Katherine Lord, Calm Darkness
- Tenushki Ranasinghe, The Eerie Night
Toitoi - A Journal for Young Writers and Artists
Writing accepted for publication in the 2026 issue of Toitoi. (Selected from over 1000 submissions from students in years 1-13 from schools across Aotearoa.)
Aggie Huang
Jacob Braggins
Poetry Box | Winter poem challenge
Poems published on Poetry Box website:
Rongo Henderson
Tyler Ryan
The New Zealand Poetry Society Te Rōpū Toikupu o Aotearoa | International Competition
Open Category for Juniors (under 18yrs) - all selected for publication in the anthology (to be released 25 Nov)
Chithralie Herath - Runner Up ($50 prizemoney + publication in anthology)
Lachlan Hogan - Highly Commended, at christmas we go to castle hill
Dwayne Sangkop, My Sister
Denzel Sangkop, proud
Divisha Kharola, This is Me
Carter Aitchison, We Might Have
Scarlett Henderson, 'swimming in my house'
e-published poets - Place Poems
These students had their place poems published on Poetry Box. In addition, Keanu won a book prize.
Keanu Raru (book prize winner)
Mimi Lan
Nora Yang
Denzel Sangkop
Emily Saleh Barsoum
Max Chiang
Harrison Evans
Ava Koster
Hannah Chiang
Poem selected for publication in anthology (print book) by Charles Olsen (based in Spain):
Bharaati Sharma
Little Thoughts Press | USA literary magazine
These students had their poems selected for publication in the print magazine:
Agatha Huang
Ryan Jacob Jijo
Little Thoughts Press | USA literary magazine
These students had their poems selected for e-publication on website & invited to answer some interview questions:
Hania Dawood
Noah Clark
Kieran Beckingham
William Holmes
Basti Clare
Ryan Cui
Jessica Pollard
e-published poets
These students had their bird poetry selected for publication on Paula Green’s Poetry Box website:
Emily Saleh-Barsoum (book prize winner)
Hayley Chen
Hannah Chiang
Lewis (Junwoo) Shin
Kastubh Khadka
Ammar Shoaib
Damon Wu
Mason Cox
New Zealand Flash Fiction Day 2026 Competition
Longlisted & invited to read his flash fiction at the NZFFD event at Tūranga 22/6/26,
Youth category (18 years and under). His writing was also published on Flash Frontier:
Kastubh Khadka
These students received their copies of the NZ Poetry Society’s 2025 anthology There Are Rabbits Here, in which their poems were published:
Henry Peters (1st Prize, Junior haiku)
Kelvin Ma (Commended, Junior open)
Angela Zhao (2nd Place, Junior open)
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