AS FAR as providing a source of inspiration for Campbell Town District High School students, it would be difficult to go better than author and ex-student Honey Brown.
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Based in Victoria, Brown returned to Campbell Town last week to be honoured as the inaugural inductee to the school's Wall of Pride - a tribute wall dedicated to past students who have excelled in their chosen profession.
After publishing her first novel Red Queen with Penguin Books in 2009, Brown now has five titles and an Aurealis Award to her name.
School principal Stephen Plowright said Brown, who attended the school up to grade 10, was a standout nomination for the honour.
"She won the award not just because of her writing abilities but also because of her ability to overcome massive adversity to become a writer," he said.
"She was involved in a farmyard accident in 2000, which actually left her in a wheelchair for the rest of her life, and to overcome that sort of issue to sit down and write a book and then get it published pretty soon after that is pretty astounding."
Brown's induction took place in a special assembly, where grade 10 students signed a charter as a way of pledging to create a positive future for themselves after completing their secondary education.
Mr Plowright said he was thrilled to have Brown tutoring the school's passionate writers in group sessions after the assembly.
"It becomes a bit more real for our students if it's a person who can say, 'Well, I was actually at this school'; they can see someone who's achieved.
"Even if just one of them is really inspired, that makes it worth doing."
