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This June is National Young Writers’ Month!

This June is National Young Writers’ Month!

Friday, 20 May | 4 Comments

June has been declared National Young Writers Month by Australian literary organisation Express Media. NYWM is a new initiative by the organisation to get young people to start writing by forming a community of young writers and setting aside July as a month for people to set and achieve a ‘goal’. Here’s how it works [...]

Applications Open For Write In Your Face Grants

Applications Open For Write In Your Face Grants

By Liam | Monday, 9 May | No Comment

Applications are open for Express Media’s ‘Write In Your Face’ program. From the website: “Each year Express Media gives young people, or people working with young people, the chance to apply to Write in Your Face, a program of support funded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council . In 2011, Express Media once [...]

Libraries are cool… No, Seriously!

Libraries are cool… No, Seriously!

By Lang | Wednesday, 19 January | One Comment

If you need something to do this last week of the school holidays or want to chill somewhere or want to learn hip hop, head down to your local library! Run by Indigenous Hip Hop Projects, interstate hip hop artists B-boy Pac Man and B-boy Ninja are running free Hip Hop workshops. To check it [...]

Why Rhyming is Awesome

Why Rhyming is Awesome

By Felix | Thursday, 23 September | One Comment

It is time to see this rhyme, find out what this article is about

Give Global Greening A Go

Give Global Greening A Go

By Felix and Rachel | Friday, 21 May | One Comment

A poem, by Felix and Rachel

Do you remember that EPIC WIN?

Do you remember that EPIC WIN?

By CJ | Friday, 18 September | No Comment

Your weekly dose of nostalgia WIN

Twilight

Twilight

Thursday, 25 June | 17 Comments

If you like vampires and fiction stories this is one book that you have to read! Isabella Swan moves to a small, dull town called Forks. As her first day begins she notices that the Cullens, particularly Edward Cullen, hate her. As time goes by Bella becomes more and more fascinated with his porcelain skin and golden eyes…

Dracula

Dracula

By Jessie | Monday, 1 June | No Comment

The snow fell down so hard on them it might have been hail; the wind was not so kind either. The howling wind freezing with snow blew right through her very soul. Despite her body’s wish to turn around and go back to the warm village, she not once stopped to look back. She kept pursuing him through the blistering storm, the tall dark figure shrouded in darkness.

He stood out in the rain

He stood out in the rain

By Mackenzie | Monday, 1 June | No Comment

He stood out in the rain, his head tilted backwards, feeling the cold kisses caress his skin as the curtains of rain soaked him till the point of a chill.The rain was heavy but soft; it was cold, but comforting, fresh but fouled. It was the rain of decades of years all locked up and waiting to be remembered, waiting to be acknowledged once again.

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