The Festival Aim: The aim of the School Literary Festival is to encourage students to read, spark an interest in writing, and allow them to meet some of Australia's leading authors. Many options exist for you or your school to take part in this exciting event:
A SCHOOL FESTIVAL
A full festival can have up to 10 authors but you can choose how many you want. The cost per student will depend on the number chosen.
This year's festival presently has 4 authors. The cost of all four coming to your school to conduct workshops with 100 or more students would be $18 per student. If you more presenters or want someone in particular to come to your school let us know. 
PAM RUSHBY is a multi-award-winning author of many popular novels.
She is best known for her historical novels for children and young adults. Her latest books include; Lissie and Margaret Rose, Princess Parsley and Sing a Rebel Song. Pam tours the world and Australia talking to children about writing and researching her books. 
ALEESAH DARLISON is an award-winning Australian children’s author.
She has written over twenty-five books for children including picture books, chapter books and novels. Her books often feature animals and environmental themes. In 2015, she won the Environment Award for Children’s Literature in the non-fiction category. Aleesah’s books include the Unicorn Riders Series, Ash Rover, Awesome Animal Stories for Kids, Netball Gems and many more. |
AUTHOR VISITS
If you don’t want a festival, you can choose to have one or more of our presenters come and work with your students.
Choose your author or authors and let us know how long you want them for. They can do a full day or half a day. For 100 or more students the cost would be $5.00 per student for each author. Below are our exciting presenters. 
MARIANNE DE PIERRES is the author of the popular Parrish Plessis trilogy and the award-winning Sentients of Orion and Peacemaker series.
Marianne has also authored children’s and young adult stories, notably the Night Creatures trilogy a dark fantasy series for teens. The Parrish Plessis series has been translated into many languages and adapted into a role-playing game, while the Peacemaker series is being adapted into a novel adventure game. 
ELAINE OUSTON has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing. She is a published author of a number of books for children and teaches writing to adults and children.
She is passionate about teaching children about Australia’s megafauna and they feature in many of her books. These books include; The Mystery of Nida Valley series, Meet The Megafauna, and the first book in a megafauna picture book series, Dippy the Dancing Diprotodon. She also has a chapter book series, Bush Tails. |
OPEN DAY ATTENDANCEAn Open Day will be held at the North Street Annex in Rockhampton on Thursday August 9th from 9.30 to 2.30.
This is an opportunity for schools to send selected students to a one-day event. The students will have workshops with and mix with all of our presenters. The cost of attendance would $25 per student. If you or your school are interested in obtaining more information on any of these options or making a booking, please fill in the form below, or phone 07 54 399 038, or email elaine@austlitfest.com
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If you or your school are interested in making a booking or obtaining more information on any of these options, please fill in the contact form above, or phone Elaine on 54 399038 or email elaine@austlitfest.com.
Check out our exciting Beachside Writers' Retreat.
Photos from previous festivals
Last year's Open Day attendees.
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