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Choose Your Own Adventure!
To tie in with the 2025 Book Week theme, ‘Book an Adventure’, Dave Lowe has adapted his popular ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ workshop, as a ‘presentation’-style 45- / 60-minute session for large groups of students, from Years 3 to 8. In this fun, highly-interactive session, Dave will share insights into ideas-generation and plotting, and give each student a story template, as well as all the tips and tricks they’ll need to make their own short ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style book that they can take home and try out on friends and family.
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Speaker | Location | Tour dates | Book now |
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Gold Coast | 20 Oct - 22 Oct 2025 | ||
Brisbane | 23 Feb - 27 Feb 2026 | ||
Sydney | 26 Feb - 26 Feb 2026 | ||
Brisbane / Gold Coast / Sunshine Coast | 10 Mar - 12 Mar 2026 | ||
Brisbane | 27 Apr - 01 May 2026 |
What people are saying
Thank you for the day you spent at Chisholm. The kids all enjoyed their time with you and found your stories interesting and engaging. The feedback from teachers has also been very positive, especially in relation to your ability to relate to the students. The English HOD was interested in getting you back in the future!
Peter's workshop was, without a doubt, the highlight of our library year! We already have plans to invite Peter back for a follow-up workshop in the near future. I also wanted to thank you for making Peter available to schools through Speakers Ink.
Allison's presentation on writing fantasy stories was both engaging and informative. Students were extremely interested in hearing about the process involved in writing stories and the elements of the fantasy genre. Allison's presentation was an excellent authentic experience to enhance their knowledge about writing.
Our expectations were met and exceeded. Everything ran smoothly and Donna was very flexible about fitting into our program. I would book Donna Dyson again and I would also recommend her to other schools / organisations.
It's always a pleasure welcoming Zanni to our school. Her presentations are innovative, engaging, informative and fun. Our students thoroughly enjoyed meeting her.
Jan regaled us with interesting and amusing stories in regard to his writing and publishing journey - Marisa Parker. President. Gold Coast Writer's Association.
During Book Week our year 3-6 students had an inspiring visit from author Dave Lowe. Students and teachers were captivated by his stories and left with some great tips and ideas to use when writing their own stories! All the feedback from staff who attended was great and we would love to have him back at our school for another author visit.
A very big thank you for organising a wonderful speaker, Jenni Cargill. Our students and teachers were enthralled. Her props and ability to keep her audience entertained was amazing. I would recommend Jenni to other schools.
“Really gave us an insight into her passion. Very commanding presence instantly captivating the audience.”
Thanks for organizing the author talk yesterday. Our girls had a lovely time and left feeling quite inspired about writing. I really appreciated the opportunity to attend.
Rebecca worked well with all Year levels. The students loved Rebecca's presentations. They particularly enjoyed her interactive games. Rebecca also taught the children some terrrific illustration techniques. The children loved being able to draw with her. Rebecca was terrrific.
Speakers Ink were helpful, prompt with any responses to questions and provided all the information necessary for the author visits.
Sue was very engaging with her story telling. She used different tools to engage students and teachers alike. She is clearly very experienced at presentations and her love of reading and writing was contagious.