Krista's talk topics
For Students
- Meet the author talk
- individual class writing workshop
(or up to 30 students in a group)
For Adults
- Writing from My Travels talk
- Writing for Children workshop
- BookSpeak: creating a parent bookclub at your school or library
With over 20 years experience in Children's Literature, Krista is an engaging speaker for both children and adults.
Equally inspiring when talking to one hundred students or conducting a small writing workshop,Krista will impart her passion for books and writing, while passing on valuable writing tips and techniques.
Krista's sense of humour, easy rapport with children, love of the absurd, great storytelling skills, and her ability to turn the most ordinary story into exciting 'fibtion' will entice your students into the magical world of books and writing.
Sessions can be tailored to your school's individual needs
Three 1-hour sessions per day
Choose Meet the Author sessions as either:
- large group talks (in Victoria typically grouped Prep-2 or 3/4 or 5/6 or Year 7/8); or
- individual year levels talks
which can then be followed up by
- individual classroom group writing workshops.
WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE for three days to one term happily negotiated.
For Students
Meet the Author Sessions
Krista will use her own books to explain to students how they too can take their own experiences and turn them into creative stories by a writing process Krista has dubbed as FIBTION, rather than fiction.
An entertaining and inspiring talk during which your students will discover exactly how Krista creates her exciting 'fibitional' stories and learn some clever tricks that will empower them to confidently improve their own writing.
There will be time for an in-depth Question and Answer session with this experienced author.
Writing Workshops
As a follow-up to the Meet the Author Sessions, these workshops work best if held for individual classes with the class teacher in attendance (on the job PD session for no extra cost!).
These are practical writing workshops during which students will learn how to warm-up their writing brain, how to find story ideas and how to turn their real life experiences into exciting FIBTION.
At the completion of the session each student will have a plan for a FIBTION story they can write later in class.
For Adults
Create a parent book club at your school
to read, review and chat about
the books young people are reading
The Parents' Book Club
Read the article online or - download the PDF 
If you'd like to read more about BookSpeak, you can download the following articles in PDF.
Speaking up about what our kids read
(Written by Jennifer Cook, Education Age)
School's In - The Parents' Club
(Goodreading Magazine)
As a former book reviewer with fifteen years experience on ABC Radio and in print, a journalist and the author of 23 titles for young readers, Krista Bell, outlines her dream that every school in Australia set up a parent book club so parents read and regularly discuss the books on offer to our children, with a view to creating a reading culture in every school - and offers practical suggestions on how to go about it at your school.
Writing for Children
An inspirational and practical creative writing workshop for adults from the author of 23 popular books for young readers, including SNIFFY THE SNIFFER DOG, IF THE SHOE FITS, NO TEARS, LOFTY'S MISSION and PEEKING DUCKS.
How to identify a good story from your own life experiences and travels, research additional facts, turn on your imagination, write exciting FIBTION and then try to get your story published.
Krista will share personal experiences of being a published author for 20 years and her in-depth knowledge of the publishing industry in Australia.
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