Amy Andrews appeared as part of the Be Still My Beating Heart: Writing Romance panel at the 2014 Byron Writers Festival alongside celebrity comedian Mandy Nolan. Amy was witty, engaging and informative. She has a wonderful sense of humour and a real skill in answering questions from the audience. Amy is passionate, dynamic and amusing. She presents with a refreshingly honesty perspective – authentic and genuine. We invited Amy to Festival after seeing her perform at numerous Romance Writers o [...]

Extremely well-structured and thought-provoking, excellent use of props, highly relevant to today's energy-conscious world, Nij's enthusiasm was fantastic. It was obvious that Nij was having a great fun time, and in turn our students were thoroughly engaged.

Deb was a very engaging speaker and performer. The children really enjoyed the visit and have been madly borrowing her books. Deb pitched her talk to each year level and managed to have everyone laughing and learning at their level - including the teachers.

Juliette 'gets' kids. The storytelling maestro is as entertaining in person as she is on the page. As well as reading from her acclaimed picture books, she revealed an insider's guide to creating rhymes - and a tongue-in-cheek take on the daily life of an author. She also sang a song about a duck, got us grooving to hippo hip hop and merrily acted the goat throughout. Highly recommended.

What I think is important is that your ideas are successful with students and that you quickly engage them, they learn to trust your work, knowledge and feedback. I think your breakdown of teaching sequence is clear and easy to follow and you sell it in your presentations. The feedback from my Grade 5 class after today's workshop was very positive.

I had the pleasure of working with Annaleise through the Author Pen Pals program, and I cannot speak highly enough of her engagement with the children. We were paired with over 130 Year 3/4 students in a library learning context. At all times throughout our ‘snail mail’ correspondence, Annaleise was swift with her lengthy, informative, humorous and regular responses. We were also lucky enough to have Annaleise visit our school for a day and engage with all students from Prep to Year 6. She broug [...]

Matt did a great job stimulating the boys’ interest in an alternative look at Brisbane’s past.

Very interesting, well presented, engaging workshop for children

“Insane in ye brain” – Charlie’s performance “The Shakespeare Session” was in a word, fantastic. The students and staff of Pacific Pines SHS enjoyed every minute of the engaging, informative and highly entertaining performance that explored the central themes of Shakespeare’s most famous and memorable works. With his catchy hip hop beats, raps about the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and the exploration of Macbeth – affectionately referred to during [...]

Zena was personable and knowledgeable. She designed an immersive creative writing tour that inspired student's creativity and enhanced their writing skills. I would recommend her workshops for schools looking to inspire enthusiastic young writers in their schools.

Prue Mason did a great writing workshop with the 4-7s using hats. The kids were busy the whole time and she left the worksheets for the teachers to continue using in the class.

Very accommodating and helpful in organising author visits.