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Create Your Own Magic System
Brisbane Square Library
Free event / Workshop / Love YA
LYA003
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Who needs a magic system? You do if you’re writing a fantasy adventure. Join author, Amelia Mellor whose novels The Grandest Bookshop in the World and The Bookseller’s Apprentice are a great introduction to help you develop a magic system. The system helps you decide what the rules of your world are: who can do magic, how does magic work, what its limits are, what are the impacts of those choices, whether pigs can fly—and why not? The sky's the limit! Come create your own or team up with others along the way.
Presented in partnership with
Brisbane City Council Libraries
Presented in partnership with
Griffith University
#Artist
Amelia Mellor
Amelia Mellor began her writing career as her secondary school's resident playwright in Year 11. As part of her creative writing course at the University of Melbourne, she completed a thesis on the reinvention of the Industrial Revolution in children's fantasy literature. Her debut novel, The Grandest Bookshop in the World, has won an Australian Book Industry Award, an Indie Book Award, a NSW Premier's Literary Award and a Booksellers' Choice Award. Her highly anticipated second novel, The Bookseller’s Apprentice, was published in 2022. When she isn't writing, Amelia enjoys hiking, gardening and drawing.