Louise Park
Louise Park is an award-winning author known for her bestselling series fiction that includes Zac Power Test Drives, Boy vs Beast, Harriet Clare, D-Bot Squad, Star Girl, and the Grace mysteries, Grace’s Secrets and Grace’s Escape.
She is the author of the adult nonfiction title 7 Steps to get Your Child Reading, and her latest book, Last Man Out, A Personal Account of the Gallipoli Evacuation is an award-winning title based on her grandfather’s letters, notes and journals of his experiences as the last man out of Anzac Cove at Gallipoli during WW1. With sales in the millions world-wide with she writes under her own name as well as the hugely successful pseudonyms: H. I. Larry, Mac Park.
Talk and Workshop details
Talk: Heroes and Villains (Yrs 4-6)
Find out how to create great heroes and villains and why we need them? Test your knowledge in an interactive Villain Trivia Quiz and leave with loads of writing tips up your sleeve!
Thurs 22 Feb : 9.30am - 10.15am
Fri 23 Feb : 11am - 11.45am
Talk: History, Mystery and Magic (Yrs 4-6)
Time travelling, mysterious and magical objects, portals and hidden worlds. How imagination, the real world and a touch of history lets you create these invaluable story elements. Be prepared to be intrigued and have your minds stretched! You'll leave armed and ready to write!
Thurs 22 Feb : 11am - 11.45am
Fri 23 Feb : 9.30am - 10.15am
Workshop: Using Visualisation techniques to write a compelling scene (Yrs 4-6)
Using visualisation techniques to write a compelling scene. This workshop includes some guided editing.
Thurs 22 Feb : 12.30pm - 1.30pm
Fri 23 Feb : 12.30pm - 1.30pm