Sydney Writers' Festival 2025
Here's a Woodies Wrap on the Sydney Writers' Festival 2025:
Written by Phinehas (Year 6)
At the Sydney Writers Festival I found that the most notable authors among them were Joel Mckarrow, Jared Thomas and Katrina Nannestad. Joel Mckarrow was quite hilarious and was quite unafraid to show his emotions. I found much inspiration because I am quite interested in poetry and expressing myself through description. Then there was Jared Thomas! I found that Uncle Xbox (Jared’s) was quite sad but also reflected on real life. This is also a thing I like to include in my writing because I like to have my stories revolve around real life. Then there was Katrina! She was so inspiring! I really appreciated the way that she could see a war story. So in a nutshell I have to say that it was extremely beneficial and I am really glad that I went! :)
Written by Aldrich (Year 6)
When we went to the Sydney Writers Festival, it was so fun! We managed to meet with so many authors like Terri Libenson, Joel Mckerrow, Katrina Nannestad, Jared Thomas and Jaqueline Harvey. The train ride was so exciting and everyone was getting along. Joel Mckerrow’s entrance was so energetic and everyone cheered! Joel Mckerrow talked about his book “Heist” which was actually based on his adventure in school when he was in year 7.
When Katrina Nannestad came up it was so loud everybody was cheering. We got so excited when we saw her because we are currently reading her book Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief. After the show, I even managed to get a book signed by Joel Mckerrow! He called me “Aldrich the Stinky”. Overall the Sydney Writers Festival was a blast! I would definitely like to go back again!
Written by Mason (Year 6)
The Sydney Writers’ Festival was amazing. We got to meet so many authors such as Terri Libenson, Joel Mckerrow, Jacqueline Harvey and Jared Thomas and my favourite definitely Katrina Nannestad. The train ride was definitely a great part of it. Everybody was chatting and having a great time but my favourite was Katrina because we are currently reading her book Rabbit Soldier Angel Thief . On Thursday last week it was a great day in the city. It was definitely the funnest out of my four times I've been. If I could, I would go again.
Written by Aya (Year 6)
The Sydney writers festival was amazing. I got to meet multiple authors. First of all we got to meet Joel Mckerrow. Joel Mckerrow was a poet writer. He also made a book called “Heist”. This book is about a group of year 7s stealing year 12s chocolate. He was amazing. Next we listened to Teri Libenson. She was an American author who loved Sydney. She made comics and a series of a girl named Emmi. She made multiple books and comics. She started off by writing a comic in the newsletter. She was really fun. Next up we listened to Jacqueline Harvey. Jacqueline Harvey spoke about her book called The girl and the ghost. Jaquline Harvey was inspired by just a book signing in Singapore. She got to meet the prince and saw multiple guards. She did multiple books that were all better than each other. I loved her. Next up it was lunch time. We had a 1 hour break to get our books signed. We also got to meet Katrina Nannestad who is the author of multiple books like “We are wolves” and more but I was most excited for the book ‘Rabbit Soldier Angel Thief’ because we are reading it in 5/6BG. It’s an amazing book and I am determined to read the whole book, I got to talk to Katrina Nannestad in person and she was amazing. Next up we got to meet Jared Thomas and he made a book called Uncle Xbox which was.what he focused on talking about for the majority of time he was up on stage. He is an Aboriginal author. Jared Thomas also had a small question session up on stage and someone from our school got to ask a question! Overall I loved the Sydney Writers’ Festival and had a blast throughout the whole day.I hope that everyone that came to the writers festival enjoyed it as much as I did.
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