For this session our young editors met 100 Story Building facilitator Ben McKenzie who worked with us on the first draft of our Choose Your Own Adventure story for this year’s Early Harvest.

Thank you Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA), Tasmania South, for this fabulous feedback on our professional learning program.

To get the creative juices flowing for our forth Early Harvest workshop, we ran warmup activities that encouraged our young editors to be more comfortable collaborating, sharing ideas and bonding as a team.

LAUNCHED TODAY: A User’s Guide to a Pandemic is a digital collection of writing by young Australians sharing their experiences of life through the surreal times of COVID19.

100 Story Building to delivers a two-part professional learning program to literacy educators in Tasmania on creative teaching practices.

For our second Early Harvest workshop, our young editors were joined by best-selling children’s author and co-founder of Early Harvest program, Davina Bell, to discuss character experience.

The Sound Of The Dark is highly commended at ABDA 2020 showing that children’s ideas can enhance the work that adults do.

Book designer Regine Abos talks about being nominated for an ABDA award for The Sound of the Dark, the 2019 Early Harvest book.

Meet the young Early Harvest editor team that will be putting together our annual collection of stories for middle-graders this year!

We’re adapting our Early Harvest program for delivery via online media, including new ways to build camaraderie and friendships within the team.

We’re supporting the young writers at Catholic Regional College who are participating in the Shared Stories program.

The applications are in, and the Early Harvest editorial board 2020 promises to be a cracking team!

Our online creative literacy workshop gets a thumbs up from St Leonards’ teachers.

Nine-year-old Ruby’s story takes four space explorers onto a dry, barren planet with red water. What happens next?

Teachers explore how to deliver online teaching effectively and how to engage and energise remote learning students.

100 Story Building shares its top three tips on how to edit stories for young writers at home and schools.

Follow Ayaan on her space trip to a new planet, Neon-Tin. A very bright planet, where plants, pets and people are all very neon.

Before our 2020 Early Harvest editors begin exploring this year’s adventure theme, we’re time-travelling back to last year to reflect on the process involved in making a publication by children for children.

Rebecca Lim’s grit and determination in the face of failure, and her resolve to ensure that people like herself are reflected in the stories she saw on TV and in books, makes her the perfect mentor for the diverse young writers in our 2020 Early Harvest program.

In solidarity with Black Lives Matter, 100 Story Building commits to actions that make space for First Nations and Black peoples’ stories, particularly those of children and young people, and the work we need to do as non-Indigenous Australians to better support Reconciliation and anti-racism in our community.