You can find out more about our amazing guests and even find some useful resources by following the links to their author websites below:
https://www.jenniferkillick.com/
https://www.pierstorday.co.uk/
https://www.susancahill.co.uk/
https://www.emilyrandall-jones.com/
https://www.garethwrites.co.uk/
http://www.iandouglas-storyteller.co.uk/
https://www.sfs.org.uk/profile/vaughanmatthew69gmail-com/
https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/meredith-vigh/
https://www.bectonksillustrator.com/
Author Videos to share in School:
Jennifer Killick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-fdqth2hmQ&t=16s
Piers Torday: https://www.youtube.com/@piersftorday
Susan Cahill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8tsuIq0Mak
Gareth P Jones: https://www.youtube.com/@garethwrites
Emily Randall Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBZeXKW7Vaw
Fiona Barker: https://www.youtube.com/@fionabarkerauthor1415
Meredith Vigh: https://www.youtube.com/@meredithvighchildrensautho6041
Ian Douglas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU43RiYAtsg
Matthew Vaughan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVidl1fN50I&t=30s
If you’d like to book our team for a school assembly, including a visit from Tricksy Troll, please email storiesintoschools@gmail.com
If we are unable to get to your school for an in-person assembly, please feel free to use our 2026 School Assembly Powerpoint below:
Step into Stories 2026 School Assembly PowerPoint
Step into Stories 2026 School Assembly PDF
Step into Stories 2026 School Assembly Speaker Notes
If you’d like to order books for your school, why not contact our official festival bookshop - Wyre Forest Books on https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/wyreforestbooks or 01299 488400
STORIES INTO SCHOOLS PROGRAMME
Here at Step into Stories, we are passionate about inspiring the readers and writers of tomorrow. That is why, in 2024, we launched our Stories into Schools Programme, which aims to provide a free author/poet/illustrator/storyteller visit to each of the schools in Bewdley. There is something magical about meeting the person who created the world you have travelled to in your mind and brought to life the characters that you have loved.