Liz was very enthusiastic and a pleasure to work with. She engaged the children very well and they all enjoyed the session immensely. We received nothing but positive feedback from parents, wanting to know more about Liz and her work.

Extremely accommodating, friendly and prompt

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 [...]

Prue is an exceptional speaker who connects with students and seeks to ensure that their questions are answered. She admirably prepares herself for her presentations. Prue's wisdom, care and compassion make her an excellent writer, and presenter.

Nij is amazing at outreach… he makes even hardcore physics sound like fun!

I thoroughly enjoyed Juliette's visit. She was bright happy and energetic and honest. We all loved her sense of humour. I loved the way she opened up about a writer’s life and her family, the children could really identify with her. Room 3's eyes were alight when she read the book we had focused on. It was great for the students to have Juliette explain how she created 'Gwendolyn' as that was the book that was assigned to our class. It was particularly great for the children to see how an auth [...]

Trevor is always great. Very engaging.

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 [...]

Heartfelt thanks to you Chris for all the wonderful inspiration your book has given all the students I worked with last term for their reading, writing and performing skills!

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.

We have finished our Step into Stories program and it was a great success. I have heard nothing but wonderful comments and praise about Deborah Abela.

Alison presented to our Year 7s as part of their work in English on writing from a perspective as a historical figure. She held the students’ interest with her calm delivery and engaging stories about how she used historical research into her own middle grade novel, inspiring them to weave interesting facts into their own work. Ali was easy to work with and very professional; I was particularly impressed with how she linked our students’ work with her own presentation to make it even more relata [...]

This is the second time we have used Matthew to speak with our Year 12 students during their study of feature writing. He is generous and engaging and we have absolutely seen an improvement in the way our students respond to this task. We will be bereft if we can’t have him again next year!