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This book is about significant issues in our society today. It aims to be an accessible resource about these issues and an inspiration for young people engaged in writing about experiences, observations and concerns they feel are important. The first part of the book features writing by leading Australian thinkers who address various issues such as climate change, children, democracy, Indigenous discrimination, higher education, housing, sexuality and bioethics. The second part contains selected essays submitted for the Future Leaders Writers’ Prize and Future Leaders Climate Writing Award in 2007. The writing by talented young Australians covers many issues including depression, racism, homelessness, nuclear waste and the war on terror. The writers’ clarity of thought and analysis and skill in communicating the issues under discussion is cause for much hope.

The book features essays by leading writers and senior students.

It should be read not only by aspiring young writers but also by all young people who seek to make a mark on their time.

The range and quality of these essays can leave no one in doubt about the writing skills of young people in Australia.

This is a book about writing. Its aim is to encourage young people to develop their talents as writers and to show in how many different ways writing matters. The first part of the book contains five essays by well known Australian writers. Novelist Alex Miller, playwright Hannie Rayson and poet Dorothy Porter show how creative writing can expand our consciousness, why 'passion and intensity' matter and how engaged writers enter into a free and frank discussion with their moment in history. Indigenous lawyer and novelist Larissa Behrendt and journalist Louise Milligan describe the role of writing in other contexts. The second part of the book contains selected essays submitted for the Future Leaders Writers' Prize in 2005 and 2006.

A free copy available for every secondary school

To obtain a copy for your school, please contact
Dr Helen Sykes at Future Leaders: helen@futureleaders.com.au
T 0396999596
www.futureleaders.com.au