It’s been a while since we posted to this blog but you’re about to see it come alive again!

Organisers Helen (Mrs Krynen), Diane (Mrs Idle) and Jane (Hallam Foster’s mum) are beavering away behind the scenes to ensure the 2010 Rosalie Writers Festival is every bit as fantastic as the other three – if not better.

Already booked in are workshops prior to the Festival with Year 4 students creating a book trailer. Mr Yates’ and Ms Kidd’s classes will be working with illustrator Chris Nixon and emerging arts professional from Fremantle Press, Kiri Falls, to create a trailer based on Freo Press books. The Press are supporting Kiri’s participation and donating the books for the children to read and keep.

The trailer will then be posted on YouTube and of course on this website.

Watch this space for further updates.

I received a message from Mrs Krynen today: “Just to let you know that the ticket sales and orders for the Festival events went really well this morning! I was amazed for the first day of selling. They will also be selling after school.”

So be quick and make sure you get your mum and dad to buy their tickets to the Parents’ Night. And don’t forget to put in your orders for the launch breakfast and the pizza lunch at the same time.

Mrs Krynen also told me the Year 4s had a great time working with George White yesterday. They are writing and rehearsing a performance for the Festival Launch.

By the way, we now know who will be officially launching the Festival with a speech on Tuesday morning – Channel Ten’s sports director, Tim Gossage!

Other news from Mrs K – Mr Humbert is now back from the Solomon Islands, and has been told all the Festival news. We were hoping he’d do another audio-visual presentation for the Closing Celebration next Thursday afternoon, and he’s agreed. Teachers will be snapping away to record the Festival on film, so be ready with your best grins to make sure Mr H chooses your pics for the presentation!

Finally, the timetable will be up on the website as soon as I can get all the columns straight!

Keep an eye on the blog for news as it comes in …

We – that’s us, the organisers – are very excited about having a blog on the Festival site, because it means you can publish your opinions, thoughts and ideas, and your friends can comment on them.

It’s like a conversation between lots of people, with opportunities to show off your writing skills!

We’ve asked the presenters to publish blog posts as well – so you can comment on those too. A couple of them have already promised to, so keep an eye out for those.

And get your mum, dad, gran, brother, sister, dog to send in posts as well. This site is all about the Rosalie writing community so everyone is welcome.

To get your blog post published, type it into an email and send the email to jane@rosaliewriters.com.

To comment on someone else’s blog post, just click on the comments link below it and type straight into the space that appears on the website. When you submit your comment, wait a while and you’ll see it appear below the blog post when you ‘click to view’.

Blog posts and comments may take up to a day to appear – depending on how quick we are at publishing them.

If you’ve got any questions, just use the contact form on this website.