I loved how relatable Michelle was for our students. She spoke about struggles she had during primary school and still achieved her goals as an author. This is so important for all our students to hear, especially our support students. Michelle seamlessly adapted her author talks to each year level and all students were engaged. The small group workshops were a hit also as Michelle was so encouraging and her tips and tricks were easy for any student to enact.

Speakers Ink were helpful, prompt with any responses to questions and provided all the information necessary for the author visits.

Gregg delievered a wonderful presentation that included teaching indigenous language and culture that was engaging and lots of fun for our students.

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 [...]

Kellie was well prepared and engaging during her storytime sessions. She catered well to the audience ages and we enjoyed hearing her back story as well.

Paula’s presentation was greatly appreciated by participants, who found it very inspiring and useful.

Dave's sessions in the workshop were great! The students really enjoyed the opportunity to learn new skills and to leave with some great sketches. Would gladly recommend him to others and book him again.

We had a wonderful day with Kerry Brown yesterday. The sessions were great and all the children enjoyed them. Thank you Helen for recommending her… a very good choice. I also appreciated the fact that Kerry was so flexible. One group was late arriving and at one stage we had a class of Year 6 students joining in and Kerry was unfazed.

Cori was a hit amongst our boys. The boys loved listening to her read her books and talk to them about some of her favourite books. As a school, we were lucky enough to have Cori for three days and she visited all classes from Prep to Year 3. One of the activities that Cori did with our boys was to write a continuing story. At each classroom she visited, she added to the story. We are planning to read this story on assembly to the whole school. Also, before leaving our school Cori gifted us a [...]

Very authentic and honest approach to Aunty Rhonda's story and an engaging performance with elements of storytelling, puppetry and music.

I thought you should know how outstandingly successful our “Lean into Literacy” evening was on Tuesday. We were very much sailing unchartered waters as this was the first time we have offered such an event to a mixed audience of both boys and parents. However both presenters (Pat Flynn and James Moloney) prepared in such a way as to ensure that all audience members were informed and entertained. Pat was well prepared, had clearly considered the brief and totally fulfilled our e [...]

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 [...]