Joel McKerrow
Joel McKerrow is an award winning writer, speaker, children’s author and creativity specialist as well as being one of Australia’s most successful, internationally-touring, performance and slam poets.
Full-time in his creative career for the past fifteen years Joel has released seven spoken word/music albums, six books and is about to release his first ever graphic novel - Urban Legend Hunters: The Dreaded Mr Snipe (with Larrikin House).
Joel was the third ever Australian representative at the Individual World Poetry Slam Championships in the USA. He is currently the Director of The School for Creative Development, the Artist Ambassador for the aid and development organisation Tearfund Australia and is on teaching staff at the Melbourne Young Writers Studio. In the past decade Joel has taught poetry and the creative process to over 100,000 students in schools/colleges all over the world.
Talk and Workshop details
Talk: Creating Spooky Stories (Yrs 4-7)
Poet and author of the upcoming Urban Legend Hunters series (published by Larrikin house) talks about the things that go bump in the night and how to write those things into stories.
Thurs 22 Feb : 11am - 11.45am
Fri 23 Feb : 9.30am - 10.15am
Talk: Power of Poetry (Yrs 7-10)
Come and witness the passion and poetry of one of Australia’s most renowned performance/slam poets as he performs his work, shares stories from his fifteen year career around the world and inspires students in their own writing.
Thurs 22 Feb : 11am - 11.45am
Fri 23 Feb : 12.30pm - 1.15pm
Workshop: Writing Slam Poetry (Yrs 5-8) & (Yrs 4-6)
Using visualisation techniques to write a compelling scene. This workshop includes some guided editing.
Thurs 22 Feb : 9.30am - 10.30am (Yrs 5-8)
Fri 23 Feb : 11am - 12pm (Yrs 4-6)