Early Harvest #5 Interview: KIARA
100 Story Building mentor, Britney, interviews this year's Early Harvest editors.
Britney:
Hey! So just introduce yourself with one fact about yourself.
Kiara:
My name is Kiara and I enjoy playing sports outside, eating and sleeping.
B: What sports do you play?
K:
I usually like playing tennis but at school I like playing basketball and sometimes downball.
B:
What got you into Early Harvest?
K:
I enjoy reading and writing. I’ve got a heap of books at home and a journal that I write in, so I really wanted to create a – because I’ve seen this before – a magazine that displays people’s personal writing.
B:
So do you aspire to be a writer when you grow up or just a sideline hobby?
K:
I’ve dreamt about those things before, like sometimes I want to be an author. When I was younger I wanted to be a teacher. So yeah, I just want to write at least two books.
B: Oh yeah. I used to want to be a teacher when I was really young, then up until year 6 I wanted to be an author. What do you like the most about Early Harvest so far?
K:
When we were first notified, I was really excited about getting our portraits drawn. But I also really enjoyed editing and choosing the stories.
B: Do you like our theme?
K:
Yes.
B: Was that the one you initially wanted?K:
Yes. I think it’s a really good theme because it’s really intense, motivated and engaged.
B: Yeah it’s really broad so you can write so many things. Have you come across a story that you really like?K:
Yes! It’s a diary entry called Deactivated, and it’s about an email between a girl and a ghost and it’s really cool.
B: Did it make the cut?K:
I think so.
B: Awesome! I’ll look forward to reading it. Before you said that you really like reading. What’s your favourite book?K:
I’m not sure. I read lots of books and all of them are my favourite to me. But there is one book called
Finding Serendipity
[that I really liked].
B: I really like slice of life books, more than fantasy. How about you?K:
I like both. I really like reading books about war, history and people’s lives during then. At school we were reading about life on the goldfields and then we went on camp to Sovereign Hills.
B: Was it fun going there?
K: Yes
B: Did you find gold?K:
No!
B: Too hard?K:
Yes, very. And we went to a show to learn about the Eureka Stockade and it was really cool.
B: That’s nice! Okay last few questions. First, what is your favourite colour and animal?K:
My favourite colour is yellow because it’s very bright.
B: Me too!K:
And my favourite animal would be a lion, because I love the mane and colour.
B: Also, if you could do one impossible thing what would it be?K:
To fly.
B: Do you imagine yourself hovering, flying like superman or like a bird?K:
Like a bird, so when I play hide-and-seek I can just fly up in the sky.
B: Okay! Thanks for letting me interview you today.K:
Thank you.
Britney is a sixteen year old blueberry living the typical fruit salad life. When she’s not busy trying to get her fruity life together or studying fruitology (she means biology), she is busy running in the woods with deers, rabbits and possums or swimming in the ocean with dolphins in her procrastinating mind. If not, you’ll find her doodling and spilling creative lines on paper instead of her homework… productive and healthy.
Early Harvest is a dynamic after-school program that brings together an editorial team of upper-primary students from Melbourne’s west, and provides them with mentoring and workshops to publish an issue of the yearly literary journal. The 2016 issue of Early Harvest will be released on Wednesday 9th November, with all profits going back to 100 Story Building’s free literacy programs. Click here to find out more.