School & community events photo gallery

We had such a fabulous year, going to school and community events and fetes, meeting so many creative young people, and working with children and teens in our Schools Program. Although we said some sad good-byes to our after-school writing clubs in schools, we're looking forward to many more school visits and community events in 2017! 

School fetes and festivals

Boroondara Park Primary School Fair in November was a blast, creating comics and mini books with kids with huge imaginations.

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St Margaret Mary's School Fete in October was super fun, wearing super costumes, watching ideas come to life, and creating new superheroes.

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School programs and publications

Serpell Primary School students focused on creating hilarious stories for their newspapers, The Disaster Daily and Strange Animal News. Students of Serpell also published The Lost Tales of Serpell Primary, a whimsical book about lost things.

This was the fourth year of running our term-long short story course with Tintern Grammar School. Fourteen talented students wrote some of the most magical stories you'll ever read and we held our first-ever book launch at the school.

Three creative writers at Templestowe College enjoyed their first peek at the anthology we published with the Year 7 students. The 91 stories were written as part of our six-week short story course with the whole year level. 

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Village Arts Festival

It was a beautiful day at the Village Arts Festival at Edinburgh Gardens, right around the corner from our new sutdio. We met heaps of fabulous families and kids, made mini books and wrote 50 word stories inside this amazing, giant inflatable sculpture... 
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Farewell to after-school clubs

This term we said goodbye to our after-school clubs at Serpell Primary, Balwyn Primary and Milgate Primary. We are so grateful to these schools for welcoming us in to share our after-school programs with so many enthusiastic writers.