The authors working with us are carefully chosen because of their:
- list of critically acclaimed publications in many genre
- warm and empowering presentation style
- different personalities and backgrounds
- and varied approach to the craft of writing.
To elaborate, the same group of talented young writers (drawn from Years 9 – 12) from numerous schools in each area come together, every term, for a whole day creative writing workshop with one of Australia’s top authors for young adults. Each author is a brilliant teacher of their craft. Each day will be informative, practical, intense, inspiring and fun. The director, Lesley Reece, will be managing each day working alongside the author. At the conclusion of each day, the students will have a well-developed piece of writing, which they are expected to finish and email to the Centre, to be included in the collection of writing produced for each group each year. These collections are just superb to read, make all the hard work worthwhile and are displayed in school, public, state and national libraries.
Those students who wish to continue will be invited to return the following year.
The students selected must want to come, be avid readers, want to write and want to share their writing. They should also be prepared to commit to the complete programme of 4 days in any given year.
The Youth Literature Day Programme is in its seventh year at the Centre and has been an outstanding success, with more and more schools applying to join the programme. Since 2007, it has been sponsored by the Copyright Agency Ltd.
In 2007, we were in the happy position of being able to commence the programme for talented young writers in Albany, Bunbury and Geraldton at the same cost as metropolitan schools. This is due to the generosity of the Copyright Agency Ltd and the Public Education Endowment Trust.
For those students in Years 9 - 12 commencing in 2009
| New Group A |
New Group B |
|
| Term 1 with Maureen McCarthy |
Tuesday 24 March | Wednesday 25 March |
| Term 2 with Archie Fusillo |
Tuesday 16 June | Wednesday 17 June |
| Term 3 with Matt Ottley |
Tuesday 15 September | Wednesday 16 September |
| Term 4 with Julia Lawrinson |
Wednesday 4 November | Thursday 5 November |
For those students who were in New Groups A and B in 2008 and wish to continue.
| Continuing Group A |
Continuing Group B |
|
| Term 1 with Maureen McCarthy |
Tuesday 31 March | Wednesday 1 April |
| Term 2 with Archie Fusillo |
Tuesday 9 June | Wednesday 10 June |
| Term 3 with Isobelle Carmody |
Tuesday 11 August | Wednesday 12 August |
| Term 4 with Markus Zusak |
Tuesday 27 October | Wednesday 28 October |
For those students who were in New Groups A and B in 2008 and wish to continue.
| Term 1 with Maureen McCarthy |
Friday 27 March |
| Term 2 with Archie Fusillo |
Monday 8 June |
| Term 3 with Isobelle Carmody |
Friday 14 August |
| Term 4 with Markus Zusak |
Friday 30 October |
For Years 9 - 12 students commencing in 2009 and students continuing from 2007 and 2008
| Term 1 with Maureen McCarthy |
Monday 30 March |
| Term 2 with Archie Fusillo |
Monday 15 June |
| Term 3 with Matt Ottley |
Monday 10 August |
| Term 4 with Julia Lawrinson |
Monday 26 October |
| NEW GROUP for those Years 9 – 12 students commencing in 2009 |
CONTINUING GROUP for those students continuing from 2007 and 2008 |
|
| Term 1 with Maureen McCarthy |
Thursday 2 April | Friday 3 April |
| Term 2 with Archie Fusillo |
Thursday 11 June | Friday 12 June |
| Term 3 with Matt Ottley |
Thursday 17 September | Friday 18 September |
| Term 4 with Markus Zusak |
Monday 2 November | Tuesday 3 November |
For Years 9 - 12 students commencing in 2009 and students continuing from 2007 and 2008
| Term 1 with Maureen McCarthy |
Thursday 26 March |
| Term 2 with Archie Fusillo |
Thursday 18 June |
| Term 3 with Isobelle Carmody |
Thursday 13 August |
| Term 4 with Markus Zusak |
Thursday 29 October |
The Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre will produce, by the end of the year, a Collection of Writing by each group.
i. All students attending are expected to produce a piece of writing resulting from each Youth Literature Day, ie. four pieces per year. This can be several paragraphs, a poem or a short story, but no longer than two A4 pages.
ii. The writing must reach the Centre within three weeks of each Youth Literature Day.
iii. Work must be emailed and presented in the following format, otherwise we cannot include it.
| Your Group Author Title
(3cm margin)
(3cm margin)
Your full name Name of your school - not year level!
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