Using Instagram as a Kidlit Creator – with Victoria Ellen & Annaleise Byrd
Creating content, sharing it, hash-tagging, collaborating, reels, posts, day feeds - Social Media. Whether you love to hate it or hate to love it, it's definitely here to stay, and most dauntingly, be ever changing in it’s analytics, functionality, measures
Getting published in children’s magazines: Wise words from Annaleise Byrd, Ayesha Uddin & Melissa Salisbury
Happy chatter filtered through the congregation of authors, illustrators, creators, and booklovers who had gathered in the beautiful Mount Coo-tha Botanical Gardens for the July meeting of Writelinks. As we settled in, our attention was directed to the array of
AI in Publishing with Liss Caldwell
One drizzly winter afternoon, members of the writing community teetered on the precipice waiting to hear if creatives have a future or if Artificial Intelligence (AI) would take over the world. On Saturday 3rd June 2023, many Writelink attendees looked anxiously
Compelling Characters Workshop with Gus Gordon
One sunny autumn afternoon, illustrator and author Gus Gordon shared his wisdom with the world. On Saturday 6th May 2023, the monthly WriteLinks session featured an internationally acclaimed guest with over eighty books to his name. Forty creatives filled the room
Getting the most out of writing conferences – led by Yvonne Mes
Attending kidlit conferences can be fun, exciting, informative, nerve-wracking, daunting and, let’s face it, sometimes expensive. But with some hard-won expert guidance from Yvonne Mes, ably assisted by Rebecca Sheraton, Write Links attendees got the low down on how to
Workshop with Judith Rossell
There was a packed house at the Write Links meeting at the State Library of Qld on Saturday, with good reason… the incredible Judith Rossell, author of Withering By Sea, was in residence. Listening to the story of her career
Sound in Stories – Workshop led by Yvonne Mes
By Sophia Evans It’s sometimes called ‘Professional Development’, other times ‘Ask An Expert’ and quite often ‘Writing Workshop’. But no matter what it’s called, one of my favourite parts of our monthly Write Links meetings is our ‘Writers Activation’ sessions—time to
“Idea Creation and Collaboration” with Sean Williams at BSAB October 2022
Jacqui Halpin introduced Sean Williams as: supremely talented. Sean Williams introduced himself as: one who was too stupid to give up. I’ll also add to these words of praise: extremely knowledgeable, funny and relatable. Sean shared so many pearls of wisdom, helped us
Book Links StoryArts Brisbane Freya Blackwood Illustration Workshop Sunday, 23rd October 2022
Picture books are like little self-contained worlds that exist between two covers – Freya Blackwood Creativity was electric on day two of the Book Links StoryArts Brisbane conference. And with Freya Blackwood as our fearless workshop leader, we were in for
BSAB 2022 – Pitch Party
The friendly, intimate vibe of Story Arts Brisbane continued on the Sunday when everyone who was attending the workshops was at the State Library bright and early for the 8.30am Pitch Party. (Insider tip: So bright and early that next
