Family Sunday: Writing workshop with Kate Foster

Get your creative juices flowing with storytelling games at this event presented in partnership with Sydney Writers’ Festival.

Join author Kate Foster in an engaging, interactive writing workshop. Budding young writers will learn how to ramp up the stakes and obstacles in their stories. Through a variety of scenarios, they’ll understand the importance of character agency.

All attendees will be provided with a workbook to take home.

Recommended for ages 6 to 12. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Kate Foster is a bestselling and award-winning children’s author living on the Gold Coast with her family and second-hand dogs. Her novels are published in Australia, the UK, and the US, and include PAWS, The Bravest Word, Harriet Hound, The Unlikely Heroes Club and the brand-new Freddie Jones series. Kate founded the ASLA Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Children’s Book Award in 2023, and runs Author Pen Pals, a new Australia-wide initiative in which children’s book creators write letters to groups of students throughout the school year.

This event is presented in partnership with Sydney Writers’ Festival.