Wizards and witches and lizards, oh my! In this program, students will immerse themselves in the joy of fantasy world-building. Students will generate ideas for their own realm and begin to populate it with lore, creatures and characters. Each week, students will have opportunities to use gaming strategies and other constraints to playfully explore the mechanics and conventions of the fantasy genre. At the end of the program students will have the beginnings of a fantastic compendium.

Welcome to Ghost Stories. In this workshop series students are inspired by spooky poems and stories from around the world and then use their imagination to create their own take on ghost fiction. Over three workshops students learn about the conventions of ghost fiction, exploring character, mood and settings. Students will create spooky pieces of short fiction, listicles and interviews with a ghost that evoke a pleasing terror in their readers.

In this workshop, students will engage with visual artworks by Dylan Mooney, a proud Yuwi man from Mackay, Queensland, with connections to the Torres Strait and South Sea Islands. Dylan is an artist with disability who creates paintings, drawings, and digital illustrations in an exciting comic book style.

Dylan’s art tells stories about strength, survival and love. Your students will be excited by contemporary art practice and do a drawing activity exploring symbols before expanding on descriptive language and characterisation. Students will create their own superheroes with a unique and powerful talisman, sharing stories in the form of a short narrative. Students will develop skills to make their writing more personal, inventive and engaging.

In this workshop series students will dig deep into their opinions, creating odes and anti-odes. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the poetic form of the ode,  language features and as well as some useful strategies for idea generating using mentor texts.

In this workshop students will delve into fan fiction, stories written inspired by mish-mashing characters, plotlines and worlds of books, movies, shows and comics that they are fans of.

Students are introduced to InstaPoetry exploring the inventive ways the multimodal nature of Instagram is being used by young poets to share their writing and experiences.