SLANSW Professional Learning Summit - Change the Narrative
Workshop Presenter – Friday 21stMarch 2025
Anna Burkey – Reading Australia
Creating Reading Communities
In this session, Anna will be presenting on reading research, the important elements to building a reading culture and how we reach infrequent and lapsed readers.
Presenter Bio
Anna Burkey has a passion for storytelling, reading and learning. Hailing from Scotland, where she was on the founding team of Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature, she currently lives in Melbourne on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung lands. After several years in leadership roles with State Library Victoria, establishing StartSpace and leading the Centre for Youth Literature, Anna is working with partners across the country to grow Australia Reads - a national not-for-profit collaboration aimed at increasing reading rates. Australia Reads is on a mission to get more people reading more books, more often.
Registrations open at https://www.slansw.net.au/events