Escape into a writing adventure with Tess Rowley.
Who doesn’t want to go on an adventure? Especially when you can escape with just a pen and some paper. No need to pack – or even remember your toothbrush!
So many people want to write but don’t know how to get started. If that’s you, in this workshop award-winning poet and author Tess Rowley will give you a step-by-step approach to writing, from that first gripping line to a sequence of ongoing words and ideas.
Format
This is a free workshop for young writers aged 10-16 held as part of Brisbane Children’s Writers Festival 2023, in partnership with Brisbane City Council. Bookings are required.
Find out more about the full Festival program and more satellite events near you at www.queenslandwriters.org.au/youthwriting.
About Tess
Tess has written poems and stories since she was ‘knee high to a grasshopper’. She was the poet in residence at Brisbane Expo and has appeared at the Woodford Folk Festival, Queensland. In 2019 she received an award in the National Hope Literary Prize, (Brotherhood of St Laurence), with her short-story, The Girl Who Wanted To Paint The Moon.
Her lifelong work in the area of child and family support has been a guiding focus for her writing of many children’s books for Government / non-government organisations. With previous book titles such as, I Feel Scared When Mum & Dad Fight, My Friend Gordon, Touches and Feelings and the award winning, Everyone’s Got A Bottom, Tess gives voice and acceptance to ‘hard to talk about’ subjects. She received a Lord Mayor’s Australia Day Achievement Award in 2019 for ‘services in the community - children’s author’, and was the recipient of the Queensland Writers Centre Johnno Award, 2022, for ‘outstanding contribution to the writing culture in Queensland.’
For more information about Queensland Writers Centre’s Program of Events and answers to FAQs, please visit: www.queenslandwriters.org.au/program-info