This Children’s Week event is presented by Mansfield Readers And Writers Incorporated in partnership with the Victorian Government.
What’s the workshop all about?
A zine workshop taps into self-expression and helps you capture the story of you, or is the perfect platform for things you want to say. And Andrea Rowe is the perfect person to help you tap into zine-making!
Zines are handmade publications that can become a one-off collector’s item, or a new creative outlet. They’re affordable and FREE to make, and fun to swap and collect too. Once you start zine-ing, it’s hard to stop! And you might even find a new tribe of zine makers to hang out with.
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is for young people from 9 to 13 years.
Date: Wednesday 25 October
Time: 3:45 – 5:30 pm
Venue: Mansfield Library, 2 Collopy Street, Mansfield
Cost: FREE
Book with Trybooking or call Mim on 0407 664 202
About your workshop host
Andrea Rowe is an award-winning children’s author, ghost-writer and copywriter.
Her picture Jetty Jumping (Hardie Grant) won the 2022 Children’s Book Council of Australia, Picture Book of the Year for Early childhood. Her book Sunday Skating was published in June and In the Rockpools will be published in December, with more on the way in 2024. Andrea’s the winner of the 2020 Hal Porter Short Story Award, 2nd place in the Mulga Bill Writing Award 2023, and Highly Commended for the 2022 Newcastle Short Story Award. Her writing features in the upcoming Teacher, Teacher anthology with Affirm Press. A passionate advocate for contemporary Australian literature, Andrea’s the ‘author-in-conversation’ host with Sorrento’s Antipodes Books, the Founding President of Peninsula Writers’ Club, and the Mornington Peninsula Shire Mayor’s Short Story Writing Award. In 2023 she was also awarded the Mornington Peninsula Official Seal for Citizen of the Year Nominee for her services to community and literacy.
Andrea lives on Bunurong Country, Victoria where she writes from her house in the sand dunes on a blustery beach track.
