Scribblers Festival

Scribblers is a celebration of storytelling in all its forms for children and young people.

One week each year in Claremont, and online regionally all year round, Scribblers Festival engages children, parents, families, schools and communities with the creative possibilities of books, culture, illustration and writing.

scribblersfestival.com.au

Opening up worlds of words and writing, books and podcasts

Scribblers gives children the chance to meet and learn from leading authors and poets and illustrators from Australia and around the world, and come away saying… “I want to do that too”

In Perth and all around the state of western australian

We run the Scribblers Family Festival in the City of Perth, The YA Collective,The Golden Pen Writing Competition, the Golden Feather Hunt, and our travelling program Scribblers on the Road.

Scribblers Festival

Image courtesy of FORM

Scribblers Festival

Image courtesy of FORM

… and regionally from Pemberton to Port Hedland and beyond

Over 150 libraries State-wide hiding Scribblers feather bookmarks for children to find, a creative writing competition, podcasts of sessions for regional schools.

4500

Children in the
school sessions

159

LIBRARIES
state-wide

61

sessions on children’s literature & visual literacy

Scribblers Festival

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Encouraging confidence, self-discovery and a love of words and pictures

Part of FORM’s Creative Learning Program, Scribblers aims to stimulate a confidence in culture, reading, writing and creative thinking in young Western Australians; a confidence that can support them at home and at school, and open pathways to future careers.

visit: scribblersfestival.com.au

Scribblers Festival

Image courtesy of FORM