Visiting Author: Will Kostakis

By Toby Gosling-Dunlop, Year 10 student

On Friday 23 August, award-winning author Will Kostakis visited Radford College to run a creative writing workshop for 22 students. Eight Radford students in Year 10, and 14 students from other schools and colleges around Canberra attended.

Will started the workshop with a bang, and students spent the next two-and-a-half hours listening and laughing at his countless industry anecdotes, tips and feedback. Will started writing his first novel when he was in high school and published his first book by the age of 19 – something all of us were amazed by. Despite the relatively quick session, we all left inspired to put what we learned into practice with our own writing.

The morning provided us with the opportunity to not only improve our creative writing skills, but to meet other students with similar interests and to learn from an experienced, best-selling Australian author.

I would like to thank Will Kostakis for his valuable insight into the world of creative writing, ACTATE (ACT Association for the Teaching of English) for sponsoring the workshop, and Radford’s own Mr Jason Golding for organising the amazing morning.