{"id":6121,"date":"2026-05-29T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/olmcburraneer\/?post_type=article&#038;p=6121"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:47:41","slug":"english-faculty-news","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/olmcburraneer\/article\/english-faculty-news\/","title":{"rendered":"English Faculty News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Year 7 and 8 students attended the Sydney Writers&#8217; Festival this week at Sydney Town Hall to listen to three different authors writing in three different Young Adult genres. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy Doak spoke about her crime fiction writing, Josh Silver spoke about mental health in his books and\u00a0 Alexandra Moody spoke about her romance novels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students found out about the creative and publishing process and had an opportunity to ask questions in a plenary session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure 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