Yr 9/10 Author Workshops

Amie Kaufman Workshops

On Wednesday 17 May, we have the privilege of hosting Amie Kaufman, author of Illuminae. She will be running a Writer's Workshop and participate in a Q&A session. 

Though this event has been planned for our Year 9/10 Creative Writing Core English Elective, we had limited spaces for additional students from all year level.  To obtain one of these places, students not taking Creative Writing were invited to submit a 500 word short story following the prompt: Write a story about a character who takes a risk and puts themselves out there.

We are pleased to reveal that the additional students who have been selected to attend this event are Charlie Cincotta, Cindy Huang and Annabelle Talbot.  Their stories are attached:

In the Year 9/10 Creative Writing Core English Elective, students envelop themselves in the writing process. Students will hear from esteemed Australian Author, Amie Kaufman, as a way to learn more about this process and the inner workings of a published Author's brain.

Kaufman and her writing partner, Jay Kristoff, penned the set text for Creative Writing, Illuminae. The first iteration in this trilogy sees on-again, off-again couple, Kady and Ezra, fight to unveil a sinister secret as they are refugeed from their home planet.

In this once in a lifetime opportunity, all students taking Creative Writing this year will attend two sessions with Kaufman.

The first is a tour through how a writer's brain works. Participants will find out how Kaufman got into writing, get insight into a writer through little details and hear about the importance of experimenting in writing. There will be LOTS of opportunities for questions.

In the second workshop, students will start with a blank sheet of paper and leave the session with the beginning of the next big novel! With just a piece of paper and a pen, Kaufman will guide students through the brainstorming process, generating ideas, protagonists and interesting incidents to explore.

Michaela Piritidis, Juanita Blair, 

Kevin Hawkins and Joanne Montgomery

English & Library