Kristin Martin’s Author Visits & Poetry and Picture Book Workshops

Kristin is available for author visits to kindergartens and primary schools in and around Adelaide, South Australia. She is also available to teach poetry or picture book writing workshops at primary schools. Kristin is available on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in 2025. Please contact Kristin’s agent, Becky, at Becky’s Literary Bookings for further details or to make a booking: becky@beckysliterary.com.au

Kristin’s author visits focus on her environmental books in the Easter Bilby’s Friends series, Honey Possum’s Bush Cafe and Banjo Frog’s Concert Spectacular. Her storytelling sessions are interactive, entertaining and educational, inviting the children to use puppets and actions to add to the stories. A range of activity sheets are available for use after the sessions.

Kristin’s poetry and picture book workshops are tailored to the needs of each class and provide the opportunity for students to practise the skills learnt. Workshops can be chosen from a combination of the following:

• • • rhyming poetry
    • similes in poems
    • metaphors in poems, including extended metaphors
    • personification in poems
    • poetry performance
    • writing a picture book

Kristin is the author of two poetry books, To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme (Glimmer Press, 2019) and Paint the Sky (Ginninderra Press, 2016), and two picture books, Honey Possums’ Bush Cafe (Wakefield Press, 2025) and Banjo Frog’s Concert Spectacular (Wakefield Press, 2024). She is a registered teacher with over 20 years’ experience teaching in primary schools in South Australia.

‘Kristin’s picture book workshop was a delightful and inspiring experience for our year 3-6 students. Through engaging storytelling and hands-on activities, Kristin demonstrated how illustrations and words work together to bring stories to life. The students left the workshop full of excitement and newfound confidence in their ability to create their own imaginative tales.’ Susie O’Connell, teacher at Fulham North Primary School, 2024

‘Kristin’s enthusiasm for poetry was truly evident at the 2019 Meet the Writers Festival. She is able to pitch her presentations at a variety of age groups from primary to secondary students, and was a hit with the audiences.’ Aurora Reid, organiser of SAETA Meet the Writers’ Festival, 2019

‘Kristin spoke to our Year 3/4 classes today, she was enthusiastic and had the students enthralled and engaged. You could have heard a pin drop, plus they all wrote amazing poems using similes!’ Sofia Andreucci, teacher at Lockleys North Primary School, 2019

Please contact Kristin’s agent, Becky, at Becky’s Literary Bookings for further details or to make a booking: becky@beckysliterary.com.au