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

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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.