Word of Mouth | Issue 15| 2018

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WORD OF MOUTH | ISSUE 15 | 2018

In this issue:

Welcome
Voices on the Move
The Spotlight is on...Gregg Dreise
What's Happening?
Dates for your Diary

Welcome

Welcome to Term 4! After a well earned term break, our office is back up and running at full capacity to ensure all your booking requirements and needs for the remainder of 2018 and your forward bookings for 2019 are taken care of. Contact us today if we can assist you in any way. Please have a look at the profiles of our wonderful speakers and book in a visitor and presentation today.

Contact us at Speakers Ink or call on 07-3040-8465.

We are here to help you in any way possible. If you have any suggestions on ways for us to improve, we always welcome your comments - contact us at Speakers Ink.

Voices on the Move

We have many speakers travelling during 2018 - some speakers are coming to Brisbane while others are visiting regional cities: for a complete list check out all the up-to-date details on our Touring Speakers page. A snapshot of the coming months is included below:


Allison Marlow Paterson	Townsville/Charters Towers Cairns/Cooktown Mt. Isa	16 - 18 Oct 22 - 25 Oct 29 - 31 Oct
Chris Collin	Southern Gold Coast to Byron Bay NSW/VIC Albury-Wodonga and Murray River Region Newcastle and Central Coast	16 Oct - 2 Nov 5 - 9 Nov 19 - 30 Nov
Michael Salmon	Perth and Freemantle, WA Auckland, New Zealand Wellington, New Zealand	17 - 26 Oct 5 - 9 Nov 12 - 16 Nov
Maria Gill	Brisbane	5 - 14 Nov

The Spotlight is on...Gregg Dreise

Gregg Dreise is the author and illustrator of Silly Birds, Kookoo Kookaburra and Mad Magpie. These stories are about teaching morals. He is a descendant of the Kamilaroi tribe, from south-west Queensland and north-west New South Wales. For Gregg, the most exciting part of writing, is going to schools and libraries with his didgeridoo and guitar, with the aim to educate an audience filled with smiles. He was very excited to take his books to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in Italy this year. His book Silly Birds was on the 2015 Premier’s Reading Challenge year 1 to 3 booklist and was shortlisted and then won the 2015 Speech Pathology Australia - Book of the Year award.

Both students and staff really enjoyed Gregg's visit. It was fun, yet taught us all so much about writing stories and aboriginal culture. Each year level was given something different. We all came away learning so much about aboriginal heritage

St Joseph's Primary School Nundah - August 2018

The students and I thoroughly enjoyed Gregg's engaging performance - he was outstanding. A fantastic way to end book week!
A lot of happy students going home last night.
Gregg was so great! He was so engaging and so full of energy.

Wooloowin State School - August 2018

What's Happening?

Book Links AGM

Book Links AGM will be held Sunday 14 October at State Library of Qld from 2pm with guest author and illustrator Gregg Dreise. Prepare for International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019. Gregg will address the topic of Diversity in Children's Literature with a particular focus on Indigenous culture.

The best news? This is a free event. Book here https://www.trybooking.com/YACA

CBCA QLD AGM

The CBCA QLD AGM will be held Saturday 20 October with guest speaker Robyn Emerson talking about her research on writing for children aged 8-12. Morning Tea 10am, AGM 10:30am, Talk 11:00am. A planning session for 2019 will continue after lunch for those who wish to be involved.

Book here for this free event https://www.trybooking.com/YCYV

Dates for your Diary

	17 October	The Publishing Panel - a lively discussion on the topic "Be Published or Self Publish?" led by book publisher Zoe Walton and children's author Jan Latta
	24-26 February 2019	Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Conference Novotel Sydney Central
	6 April 2019	Creative Kids Writer's Festival 2019 The Tradies Gymea (Vic) 9.00am-430pm Seates are limited. Book here

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” - L.M.Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Yours in promoting literacy from all at the Speakers Ink team,

Sandie, Margie, Jan, Trina, Lia, Rob and James

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