Author and Illustrator LiveLink — formerly known as Youth Online

Our popular author/illustrator talk program, offered to schools throughout the region and beyond, via video link and smartboard. This year, presenters will include local author John Heffernan (two workshops) local author-illustrators Kathy Creamer and Fiona McDonald, and Booked In visiting guest authors Jan Latta and Belinda Murrell.

Benefits of the program to children:
  • access to professional writers that would not otherwise be able to visit the area
  • specific skills for particular projects
  • teachers can incorporate this professional input into class projects
  • direct contact with writers inspires and encourages
  • provides insight into the life of a writer
  • developing communication skills through interviewing
  • encouraging reading, discussion of stories, and extending reading ability
The Youth Online (YOL) project is a writing program developed by us to take writing skills to youth in the region—particularly in isolated areas, via video-conferencing and smartboards.
They also get to learn the technical side of things such as:
  • drafting
  • editing
  • publishing
  • developing voice and characters
  • understanding point-of-view
  • how to use dialogue
  • how to turn personal experience into something broader
  • improving the school newspaper