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 one-off 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. He is an artist with disability who creates paintings, drawings, and digital illustrations in an exciting comic book style. Dylan’s artwork 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.

In this workshop series students are introduced to the ideas of protest in art, with specific reference to work of Dhungatti artist, Blak Douglas.

In this series students will plan, write and edit a suite of very short short stories, also known as flash fiction, to be published in a class anthology.

Students are introduced to surrealism in art, exploring prose poetry and mish mash of uncanny objects and creatures. Students explore thrilling strategies for ideating and  world-building producing their own genre-bending lyrical fiction sure to give you goosebumps. 
Ideal for reluctant writers with an interest in spooky thrillers.