GenreCon is always a tough gig – we ask authors to stand up in a room of their peers and share insights, experiences, and advice that will appeal to writers who have already moved past the 101 conversations. Amy Andrews occupies a relatively unique position among that crowd – an author with a deeper back list than most of our attendees, a passion for writing and the romance genre, and the experience to hold an audience in the palm of her hand. We invited her as a guest of honour and keynote [...]

Having Annaleise visit as part of our school’s lead-up to Book Week and our culminating One School One Book event was a real highlight for our students. Her author talk, ‘Fairytales – Weird, Wonderful, Wild’, took students on a fascinating journey through the origins of fairy tales and the Brothers Grimm. A dramatic reading from her book had the students laughing and completely engaged, and they were thrilled to ask their own questions about her books and writing process. Teachers found the sess [...]

Cori Brooke came for our Author visit to our College for Book Week 2025. She shared her collection of stories with our Prep to Yr 6 students. The Infant school (Prep-2) really enjoyed when she read her stories with her wide variety of hats. The Junior school also had the opportunity to ask her about writing and she was willing to share the ups and downs of being an author. Since her visit, our students have been eager to read her books that we have in our library and keep asking when the next [...]

Tim Harris presented to our students in virtual presentations. He engaged with the students and was attentive to the audience and their questions. Tim apologised for not being able to present live due to illness and more than made up for this via the virtual presentations.

Thank you for the wonderful experience our students had with Peter. He was outstanding and he inspired a lot of the students to write when they got back to their classrooms. He is also multitalented being able to play music and sing. I cannot recommend him highly enough.

Excellent communication and quick to respond to questions.

Zena’s workshops and presentations were thoroughly engaging. Zena worked with groups with a range of abilities – all came away feeling empowered and keen to put their new skills into action.

So wonderful. Really appreciated her insight. Positive feedback from all staff and students involved.

Irena's presentation was wonderful and more than met my expectations. She was also incredibly patient with me as we muddled through with the tech side of digital author visits and conscientious about following up. I would recommend her to any library service and hope we have the opportunity to work together again at some point.