Short story/creative workshop. Improve and self-edit your short story skills.

Rochelle Stephens is an editor of three short story collections, the most recent Under a Different Sky and the publisher at Rhiza Press. Through this experience she can provide editing tips for your short stories.

Editing tips will help in school assessment as well as in the world of publishing if you want to write stories in the future. This could be useful in all levels of high school and can be catered with practical examples to the year level. Rochelle can help and give suggestions on the stories in the workshop. Maximum of 25 participants. Best with 15 or less and draft written stories.

Whats Fun in Publishing (For Grades 4-6). An alternate author talk for large groups.

From Rochelle’s 16 years of experience as a publisher and from being published as an author by trade and educational publishers, she can talk about multiple aspects of publishing and how the process works. This interactive talk gets students involved and thinking about more than just writing stories. A big feature of this talk reiterates the value of editors and taking feedback from experts (including teachers!) 

Science Writing workshop

In this practical workshop we will explore some areas of science that you can use in our story writing. The workshop will explore interesting science facts that could be good to integrate into stories:

Types of rocks and minerals

Fossils

Plant growth

Electricity

Forces and movement

Fingerprinting

Molds and tracking

Bioluminescence in animals, plants and rocks!

Psychology and how your brain works

The workshop can be catered with practical science activities and then a story from any combination of these areas of science. As a high school science teacher and writer Rochelle will discuss the relevant areas of science before these workshops and work out what materials are needed to integrate into school curriculum and be relevant - for any years of primary school, in class sizes. 

The perfect cross curriculum writing workshop! Workshop takes about 1.5 hours to include science activities and then story writing incorporating what is learnt.