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A collaborative book by participants in the youth literature festival Voices on the Coast. June 6th 2011
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By participants in
Voices on the Coast
2011
A BOOK BY PARTICIPANTS IN
VOICES ON THE COAST 2011
All text, images and information in this book is
Copyright
Judy Barrass and Contributors
2011
CONTRIBUTORS
Workshops June 6th 2011
Judy Barrass
Ebony
Layton Payne
James Puschmann
George Patterson
Jack Graham
Callum Eppelston
Brianna MacDonnell
Jarred Rogers
Jasmine Heffernan
James O Grady
Immanuel Lutheran College, Buderim, and the University of the
Sunshine Coast present the award winning youth literature festi-
val Voices on the Coast for South-East Queensland students at
the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia each
autumn/early winter.
The aim of the festival is to inspire young people to enjoy the
world of reading, writing, drawing and performing through their ex-
periences each year.
This book has been compiled from contributions made by partici-
pants in Judy Barrass’s workshop at the 2011 festival ‘Low Tech
to High Tech’.
More information about Voices on the Coast can be found on the
festival website at
http://www.voicesonthecoast.com.au/
INTRODUCTION
The ‘High tech to Low tech’ workshop is about simple ways to
put your writing up on the internet.
The workshop is also about how to build a ‘story’. You don’t
need imagination and you don’t need a storyline before you
begin. This is about sharing information.
The purpose of most of what we read and write is to share
information.
Many people earn their living by writing. They include journal-
ists, people who write manuals, textbooks and instructions,
speech writers., and public servants.
Think about all the things you read. Magazines, newspapers,
labels, wikipaedia, advertising, history notes, the cornflakes
packet, the small print on your credit card statement, and
the instructions on how to use your new Playstation. Someone
has to write all that stuff.
So for this exercise participants in the workshop are asked
to forget about being creative and
arty and thinking up cool imaginative
stories, and to just to write infor-
mation.
They were asked to pretend they
were writing for a magazine or a news-
paper or a letter, that the ‘story’ is
information they need to get across
to the reader.
Mmmm
What will
I write?
The subject for
this book is
‘YESTERDAY’
Each participant in the workshop was asked to prepare at least one
page of writing for the book, telling us about yesterday. Images
could also be included.
The pages were photographed during the workshop session, trans-
ferred to a computer and uploaded to make a virtual on-line book.
Thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to the
book.
We hope you enjoy reading about yesterday.