About 50 young writers from Trevallyn, West Launceston and Riverside primary schools participated in the creative writing program throughout the second half of this year.

Each wrote a piece in response to a fortnightly prompt and then polished their favourite work to publish in The Write Road anthology.

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Riverside High School creative writing students worked with the participants to edit their work ready for publication.

The Write Road coordinator Cameron Hindrum has run this program twice now, and said it set up good writing habits that continued into high school.

“One of the real values for me is the kids post their writing on the blog and share it, but that they can give feedback on others’ writing,” Mr Hindrum said.

“A really valuable part of the writing process is to recognise what other people are doing that you like and to recognise things in other people’s work that you can talk to them about constructively to help make it better,” he said.

Mr Hindrum mentioned the value of the constructive feedback for the young writers, highlighting a poem from Oliver Woodcock Davis, from Trevallyn, which received five comments.

“For Olly, when he read those things, it would have been really empowering for him because he’s getting it right and his work is being responded to positively,” Mr Hindum said.

“Thanks to the nature of the internet ... there’s all these boundaries being broken down and people are responding not as students from a particular school, but as writers. That doesn’t recognise gender or age or postcode and that’s also valuable,” he said.