featuring Russ the Story Bus Chock-full of the latest children’s books to browse through, or

bring an old book and swap it for a new favourite! Russ the Story Bus is presented by Sydney Writers’ Festival as part of Sydney

Writers’ Festival 2015 Children’s Festival of Moving Stories.

Wai Chim – Chooktastic!Author of the heartwarming Chook Chook series reads from her favourite stories. Lots of fun for young readers. Includes craft activity.

Ages 5-8 years Where: Children’s Corner

10.00am Richard Harland – Blowing Off Steam!Talk Steampunk and imagined worlds with the steampunk-guitar-carrying author of Song of the Slums, Worldshaker and Liberator!

Ages 9-13 years Where: The Space

11.15am 2015 CBCA award winner, Claire Zorn The YA novelist talks about her writing process and her books, including the haunting, dystopian novel, The Sky So Heavy and 2015 CBCA Book of the year for Older Readers, The Protected. A gripping tale of a more-than-usually troubled teen, with a clever twist. Ask questions, get inspired to write your own stories.

Ages 14 + years Where: Ironbark Room

Elizabeth Honey – Hop Up! Wriggle Over!Join in the action as the award-winning author, illustrator and poet reads from her stories including Hop Up! Wriggle Over! The beautiful Australian counting book, Ten Blue Wrens and What a Lot of Wattle! And The Moon in the Man – a ‘bouncing-on-the-knee, joining-in, make-em-laugh, happy times, book of rhymes!’ Includes craft activity.

Ages up to 6 years Where: Children’s Corner

12.30pm The Disappearing 2.0Come and hear poets inspired by disappearing places, sites, experiences and memories of Western Sydney. Includes 2015 CAL WestWords Fellow, Maryam Azam, Eunice Andrada, Josephine Parsons, Rico Craig, and Mira Bilbrough. Presented by The Red Room Company in partnership with WestWords.

Ages 14+ years Where: The Space

Duncan Ball – Dog-gone Funny Adventures!The best-selling author reads from his much-loved series, Emily Eyefinger, about a very special little girl who was born with an eye on the end of her finger, and Selby, the only dog in Australia (maybe even the world!) who can secretly talk, read and write!

Ages 5-10 years Where: Main Lounge

SAT 28 NOV Narellan Library

Cnr Queen & Elyard St, Narellan

FREE EVENT bookings advised but not essential

Visit westwords.com.au or call 8821 9178 for more details

‘WestWords is supported by Arts NSW, Copyright Agency Limited, Packer Family Foundation and Crown Resorts Foundation.

featuring Russ the Story Bus Chock-full of the latest children’s books to browse through, or bring an old book

and swap it for a new favourite! Russ the Story Bus is presented by Sydney Writers’ Festival as part of Sydney Writers’ Festival 2015 Children’s Festival of Moving Stories.

Elizabeth Honey – Hop Up! Wriggle Over!Join in the action as the award-winning author, illustrator and poet reads from her stories including Hop Up! Wriggle Over! The beautiful Australian counting book, Ten Blue Wrens and What a Lot of Wattle! And The Moon in the Man – a ‘bouncing-on-the-knee, joining-in, make-em-laugh, happy times, book of rhymes!’ Includes craft activity.

Ages up to 6 years.

10.00am Deborah Abela - Spies, Soccer Legends, Ghosts and Flooded Cities!An interactive session about spies, soccer legends, WW2 heroes and kids living in flooded cities. Help Deborah solve missions, battle sea monsters and find out the secret to writing your own exciting stories.

Deborah Abela’s books include New City, Grimsdon and the Max Remy SuperSpy series.

Ages 8-13 years

Room 1 - Borland Foyer Room 2 - Orch 1

11.15am Catherine Jinks – Monsters, Mysteries and Mayhem.The multi-award- winning author of A Very Unusual Pursuit; Book One in the City of Orphans trilogy, and the bestselling Genius series, talks about her latest book, Theophilus Grey and the Demon Thief, and about writing monsters, mysteries and all things that go bump – and more – in the night! Ages 10-14 years

2015 CBCA winner Libby GleesonEnjoy a very special reading time with one of Australia’s best loved authors, winner of multiple awards and writer of more than 40 books including this year’s CBCA winners for Younger Readers and Early Childhood, The Cleo Stories and Go To Sleep Jessie.

Ages up to 6 years.

12.30pm Kylie Fornasier in conversation with Felicity CastagnaHow important is place in inspiration? Kylie Fornasier is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Prince Who Shrank, The Ugg Boot War and Masquerade.

Felicity Castagna is the award-winning author of The Incredible Here and Now.

Come and hear them discuss inspiration, innovation and how writing about ‘place’ real and imagined, can help us understand more about ourselves and where we are. Ages 14+ years.

Maryam Master – Adapting Mr Stink, by David WalliamsBest-selling author David Walliams’s fun-filled novel about a friendship between a girl called Chloe and the local tramp, Mr Stink, is heading for the Sydney Opera House in 2016.

Playwright Maryam Master talks about the ups and downs, the ins and outs and the sideways and silliness of taking Mr Stink from the page to the stage!

Includes a mini workshop.

Ages 14+ years.

‘WestWords is supported by Arts NSW, Copyright Agency Limited, Packer Family Foundation and Crown Resorts Foundation.

SAT 22 NOV The Joan Sutherland Art Centre

597 High Street, Penrith

FREE EVENT Visit westwords.com.au

or call 8821 9178 for more details