Our recent visit from Matt Condon (and Hugh Lunn) was a great success. The two gentlemen where very entertaining speakers and gracious with their time for the event attendees. Their joint writers’ workshop was well very well attended and received. I certainly would not hesitate to recommend these speakers to other people.

Easy to communicate with and always very helpful when I have any questions. They gave great recommendations when we were unsure who to choose. Thank you!!

The Year 3s loved their writing workshop with the incredibly talented author Dannika Patterson.

It was a pleasure to host Frances Whiting at Chermside Library. Frances’s talk had the audience enthralled and the feedback we received from our customers was all very positive. Frances also took the time to speak individually with attendees during her book signing, which was an absolute delight. We would be happy to host Frances again in the future.

Sam Smith is a talented, passionate, and caring individual who made a meaningful impact as the Author Ambassador for Life’s Little Treasures Foundation’s Little Readers Readathon this year. Sam helped us launch the Readathon at Nino ELA where she kept a class of early learners engaged and captivated with eco-games, worm dancing and a reading of Harriet's Hungry Worms. She also assisted LLTF by reading her book ‘live’ for Friday Night story time. She helped us encourage parents to read to their b [...]

Joel McKerrow’s visit to our school today was absolutely fantastic – the students were enthused, entertained and engaged. They went away inspired to write poems. Joel performed some poetry, which put the kids at ease, showed them how poetry can grow from an idea, and brought in some humour. He then guided the students through some workshop writing exercises. One of those students had not written a poem in two weeks of class workshops and today he not only wrote one, he volunteered to read it out [...]

Tristan was on time, well-prepared and very engaging. He pitched his talk to Year 7s perfectly and it was a good mix of talk, video and music. Students commented very favourably afterwards and hopefully picked up some useful tips for creative writing.

Megan came to my school to run workshops during a Book Fair. She spent time with both gifted and talented students and students of mixed ability. She was organised, engaging and respectful during her presentations to students, and had them writing beautiful narratives. Megan was able to adjust her workshop according to the students’ interest and abilities in the class, and quickly gained a positive rapport with students. After the workshop, students reported that Megan was a lot of fun and had [...]

Jacqueline Harvey was brilliant. Not only did she engage the students but the teachers too! Her passion truly shone through as she talked about her experiences and how these reflected the themes of each of her stories. Thank you Jacqueline for the pure joy and inspiration you brought out in our kids! Jacqueline Harvey is an engaging story teller who really brought her books to life when she came to visit our school. I had a bunch of kids in my class ask me where they can buy her books from beca [...]

I enjoyed this session and found it very insightful. Creative and fun! Very useful to see how to build ideas without using words and engaging imagination. Unmissable and informative. As a YL teacher I got some useful tips.

Tim visited us at ATC last week for our annual Literary Festival and the effort & enthusiasm he brought to his presentations was very well-received by students and teachers, alike. The boys really enjoyed learning from Tim and I think we may have converted our 1 'surfie' kid to read his first 'proper' book, Occy's bio 'Occy : The Rise and Fall and Rise of Mark Occilupo'. I would highly recommend Tim to speak at any junior, middle or senior school. He also spoke at our parent night and his presen [...]