Book Week 2012 was a great success here at St Augustine's. Phil Kettle was good, especially for the boys and I think they really enjoyed the sessions. Thank you Helen once again for helping me with great author choices.

Angela’s presentation, Hooking the Reader, hooked me straight away. She has taken the basics of good writing and condensed them. In fact, there's everything you would find in a novel-length book on good writing in a well-pruned form. Her advice applies to all genres. None of us have time to read pages of examples and personal experiences of an author. I'll treasure my notes on her presentation and look forward to drip-feeding them to my writing group.

It was a pleasure to have Robert visit our school library, the children enjoyed learning about how Robert crafts and creates his stories. His talent and style of storytelling are evident as the children love to read all of his beautiful books.

It was great to accompany you to your presentations at Hornsby and Cherrybrook Primary Schools. You held the children's attention and they really enjoyed The Little Stowaway. It's now in its second print run. Congratulations.

Fantastic connection to the students, very easy going and such a humble man.

Sarah was insightful and inclusive with participants and created a safe atmosphere for people to be revealing about their memoirs. I would have loved this workshop to go for two days or at least one! It gave me ideas and I loved the chance to do some writing. It was interesting to hear the memoir ideas from other people and to connect with them, even if very briefly.

I had the absolute pleasure of attending two sessions at Newcastle Region Library on Thursday 4 April. The sessions gave the school children an insight into how Jess became involved in writing the very popular Bindi Irwin series and the RSPCA series of books. Jess also shared with the children some great creative writing tips, where do ideas come from? how to overcome writers block, and most importantly to have fun with their writing. I can highly recommend Jess for school visits, library visits [...]

We really enjoyed having Tristan visit us and work with the students during our Writers Camp. Tristan really engaged the students and give them plenty of inspiration as well as giving them practical advice that they could apply to their writing. He exceeded our expectations and I would highly recommend Tristan to other schools. He also took the time to find out what our needs were for our group of students and tailored his presentations to suit our requirements.

Trevor Fourmile gave the students great insight into his culture. He shared stories and personal experiences. We would definitely book Trevor again. Both teachers and students enjoyed and appreciated what he had to share. The service from Speakers Ink was excellent. We will book with Speakers Ink again.

We were thrilled to host Sarah Speedie for an Author Visit at our Primary School during Education Week this year. Sarah was a delight to deal with and came to us thoroughly prepared. She saw our students across Grades 1, 2, 3 & 4 and had put together a presentation designed for each year level based on the Curriculum and what we were currently working on in Literacy. The students were very excited to be meeting a 'real life' author! They listened intently to Sarah's book reading of Mozzies Vs Fl [...]

We had absolutely no issues dealing with Speakers Ink - very easy to deal with and arrangements were well organised. Yes, we would certainly deal with Speakers Ink again... ...Yes, expectations were very much met!