Youth Literature Day Programme

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  Overview

The purpose of this great adventure is to nurture a group of young writers over several years by exposing them not only to superb authors, but also to each other. It is a joy to see the friendships and confidence developing.

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.

Metropolitan Youth Literature Days

Regional Youth Literature Days

Writing Guidelines

Information for Students, Teachers and Parents

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!

iv. The margin is essential for binding (3cm on each side).

v. Choose your font but it is to be no smaller that size 12 and no larger than size 14.

vi. It is essential to edit your work: check spelling, punctuation, clarity and exclude all ‘four letter’ words.

vii. Email your pieces of writing as a Word document attachment to freolit@iinet.net.au with the following information in the subject line of your email:
Your Name, Youth Lit Day with ……………(author’s name), Your Group, eg New Group A, Continuing Group Bunbury.
Please do not include your writing in the body of your email.

Please help us by following the above points and you will have, as your reward, a superb collection of writing. These Collections are given to each contributor and are displayed in school, shire, state and national libraries.

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