To write well you have to write.

To draw well you have to draw.

When you read literature you exercise your imagination.

This biennial event held across the College’s three campuses inspired, provoked, encouraged and entertained the entire community in one way or another. During the Festival, Lindfield hosted some of Australia’s most acclaimed authors and illustrators – Tristan Bancks, Sue Whiting, Lisa Shanahan, Tohby Riddle, Nick Earls, Susanne Gervay and the I am Jack production, poets Zohab Zee Kahn and Ruth of Pass the Poetry Please, and celebrated author Libby Gleeson who also addressed the wider community in an inaugural session for parents and teachers.

Our Literature Festival presenters shared their journals where ideas were recorded and stories emerged.  Our students thoroughly relished engaging with the authors and their stories– those that have been published as well as the accounts of the evolution of their books.

A part of the Festival is the Writing Competition and we extend our congratulations to Gabriel Dickinson (Year 6E) who achieved First Place in the Poetry Division for his work entitled ‘Encounter’ (below).

After almost twelve months in planning thanks must be extended to the Festival committee across the three campuses, the P & F at Lindfield for their kind donation towards the Festival, and to the staff and students for their enthusiasm throughout the Festival.

You just never know when a story might be born.

Mrs Sue Gough – Teacher Librarian