Authors Abroad is unequivocally the No 1 organiser worldwide of inspirational author, poet, illustrator and storyteller visits. With a team dedicated to coordinating international author visits, if your school is abroad and wants an author to visit, you’re in the right place!
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What do we do?
We work closely with School Library and Leadership Teams to support you with every aspect of arranging an author visit, from booking flights to arranging book sales (and everything in-between!), our experienced team will help you organise your best author visit yet.
Why do librarians keep coming back to us?
It’s not just that we have over 15 years of experience in the international schools sector, although that clearly helps! We are a dedicated and friendly team who enjoy going the extra mile for our customers, and many librarians have worked with us for years, keeping in touch as their careers have taken them to different parts of the world.
We are also very lucky to work with so many brilliant authors, poets, illustrators and storytellers, and to keep things fresh and current, we continue to add great new talent to our roster, ensuring all aspects of the school curriculum are covered.
Planning Your Visit
We’re here to help with every step of planning your visit, starting with recommending leading authors that meet specific topics or age groups, or who can deliver staff CPD and parent sessions as well as a more conventional author visit. We plan and book travel and hotels and put together detailed itineraries to ensure the whole trip runs as smoothly as possible.
Travel Costs
We think our visits offer great value for money and we keep daily fees at a sensible rate. We often work with several schools on multi-day visits to share travel costs, making author visits accessible to even more international schools.
Book Supply
No matter where your school is, a book sale is a highlight of author visits and students of all ages love to get a signed book from an author!
We have arranged book sales in schools in some of the furthest flung corners of the globe and coordinate shipping, provide book letters, and books are sent on a sale or return basis so there is no risk to the school.
Peace of Mind
For many years we have worked with leading international schools and educational organisations including COBIS, GEMS, BSF, ESF, Cognita, Nord Anglia, Taaleem, St Andrews, Dulwich, Yew Chung and QSI and we also work closely with the British Council. You can be assured that by arranging your school author visit with Authors Abroad, you will receive a top class visit to inspire and enthuse your students and staff, with efficient and expert organisation, saving you time, stress and money.
What Librarians Say...
I started to work with Authors Abroad when I was based in Shanghai. It was fabulous to be able to bring international authors to our community. Authors Abroad have such a wide range of authors and poets allowing us to provide diversity for our community and make authentic ties to our curriculum. They are so easy to work with, arranging flights and accommodation and the communication is clear. Having one invoice covering everything makes for a streamlined process as well. I can honestly say, in 15 years of working with Author Abroad, I have not had a bad experience.
Fiona Collins, Branksome Hall Asia
