Stephen has been involved in the AUTHOR PENPAL program for the last two years, working with several schools from South Australia and Tasmania. Schools communicate with their author via letters several times throughout the school year.

Stephen has also visited several Adelaide schools, as part of Book Week celebrations in 2024 and 2025.

“Inspired by the amazing Book Pen Pals UK, Author Pen Pals is a new initiative created in 2023 to connect Australian authors and illustrators with Australian schools, in particular those that rarely have the opportunities to host or meet authors due to a lack of funds or their remote location.

We want to spread the love of literacy to all schools throughout the entire country! We want to encourage kids to share their stories! We want to promote our homegrown talent!”

AUTHOR PENPALS Australia