The 2023 Literature Festival took place on Wednesday 30 August for our Year 8 cohort. This was a team effort from the English and Library Team. It was a pleasure to host such a positive day where books, reading, writing and creativity were the focus.

The day started with a breakfast with award winning and international best-selling author Toni Jordan. Toni spoke about her career as a scientist before making the change to writing and then becoming a published author. She then spoke to the Year 8 cohort about her books, her writing process and then the session continued into a” Conversation with Toni”. The students were excellent, and Toni was delighted to hold this session with the students of St Bernard’s College.

Students then had sessions with various authors, artists and a songwriter. Our guest talent included Gabriel Bergmoser, Kenny Chan (Manga artist), Fleur Ferris, Marc McBride (illustrator for Deltora Quest series), Mandy Ord, James Phelan, Justine Sless, John Thorn (musician) and Judy Watson. The festival spirit was further enhanced with Food Trucks for lunch.

The Library will be open during the first week of the upcoming holidays, from Monday 18^th to Friday 22^nd September. It will be closed in the second week.