Creativity Hack: set time limits
Set time limits with children / students on creative projects. It helps children stay focussed and excited, and places the emphasis on getting the idea onto the page, rather than getting it perfect.
User’s Guide to a Pandemic
We’re excited to be working with teenagers on compiling their experiences of life in social isolation. The results will be published in a book: A User’s Guide To A Pandemic.
Cleo’s Purple Planet Bunnies
We sent young writers on an interstellar mission. Check out the adventures that Cleo had along the way.
Floyd’s Cosmic Clash
We sent an astronaut to explore a far off planet and asked young writers to help us figure out what happened next. Thank you Floyd for sharing your story of a cosmic clash with us!
Creativity Hack: think out loud!
At 100 Story Building, we don’t try to mask our own nervousness or mistakes. Instead, we share our feelings with children by thinking out loud. And we invite them to help us overcome them.
Beneath Reality
Thank you Loyola for sharing this spine chilling story with us. Wouldn't you love to read the the adventures of Skyler?
Adventure 2020
We put a shortlist of 7 themes to vote before them for the Early Harvest 2020 book.The results are in, and the winning theme is ADVENTURE!
Themes shortlisted!
Over the Easter break, we placed 10 themes for our Early Harvest 2020 on poll for young readers on our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter channels. We are thrilled to announce the seven themes shortlisted.
Early Harvest Theme Vote
Help us decide the theme of the Early Harvest book this year.Vote for your favourite theme for the book TODAY!
Next Early Harvest Theme
We want young readers at home to help us come up with the theme for this year's Early Harvest book.100 Story Building facilitator Brendan is here to show you how to come up with a good theme.
COVID-19: We move online
In response to the COVID-19 situation, we are converting our workshops and seminars to online webinars, wherever possible.Register your interest in our online offerings.
COVID-19: 100 Story Building response
100 Story Building prides itself in being a community-minded, child safe organisation. The health and safety of 100SB community, including our staff, volunteers, families, partner organisations and the children and young people we work with are of the utmost importance to us.In response to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, we’re taking a number of steps to prevent its further spread.
Story Hubs featured in Northern Leader
Meadows Story Hub featured in Northern Leader (Friday 3 March 2020)
The Sound Of The Dark celebrated
The Sound of the Dark has been included in the Australian Book Designers Award 2020 longlist for Children's Fiction Book category.Thank you Gandel Philanthropy and Besen Family Foundation for your confidence in our program and the young editors.
Meadows Story Hub launched!
On Friday 14 February 2020, we embarked on the second stage of our Story Hub pilot program with the launch of a traffic control room for inter-dimensional exploration aka Meadows Story Hub!
Story Hub at Broadmeadows
Meadows Primary becomes the third Victorian School to open a Story Hub in its premises!Get set for some inter-dimensional exploration!
Story Hubs are multiplying!
After an entire year of planning, co-design, co-creation, imagination stretching and world-building, we've opened our first two Story Hubs at Copperfield College and Sunshine Primary School.And this February, we're opening our third at Meadows Primary School.
Lucas Testro wins the MY Education Award
100 Story Building volunteer Lucas Testro wins the MY Education Award in the Outstanding Volunteer category.Thank you Lucas for your wonderful contributions to our young writers!
100 Story Star: Monique Nair
An aspiring writer, Monique started with us as an intern in April to support our End of the Financial Year fundraising campaign. But her creativity and calm competence were too much for us to let go. So we got her on board to support our Early Harvest program as an intern.Here's why Monique supports us.