{"id":24446,"date":"2026-07-01T13:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/?post_type=article&#038;p=24446"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:44:20","slug":"english-sydney-writers-festival","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/article\/english-sydney-writers-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"ENGLISH &#8211; Sydney Writers&#8217; Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Monday 26 May, we travelled to Chatswood to participate in the Sydney Writers&#8217; Festival. The authors Jasmin McGaughey, Tristan Bancks, Amy Doak, Josh Silver and Alexandra Moody, shared their writing journeys while giving tips on how budding authors can become writers. Tips included strategies for writer&#8217;s block, how to publish and edit books (through a publisher or by self publishing). We also heard gripping synopses of their award winning books. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tristan Bancks and Josh Silver were the most captivating speakers. They both spoke about their previous careers before they moved into writing.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Josh Silver spoke about why he writes dystopian novels and why he enjoys the genre so much, as well as the reason behind some of the topics. Tristan Bancks spoke about the techniques he uses to help write consistently, and effectively capture the intended mood and tone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lastly, all the authors told us some brief and interesting points about their books giving us unique insights and helpful tips, so that hopefully we can become authors too. It was a really enjoyable, interesting and helpful experience that we recommend to all!<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><em><strong>Zyva C and Emilie J<br \/>\nYear 9<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 9 students share their experience attending the Sydney Writers&#8217; Festival&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-24446","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/24446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/serviam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}