HOW TO BOOK AN Event
Steve’s events can be tailored for any age group. He can deliver interactive story time sessions for young children and creative workshops for teenagers and adults. Steve has performed at many UK festivals including the Hay Festival, The Edinburgh International Festival, Wigtown Book Festival, Cheltenham Literature Festival, Bradford Literature Festival to name a few. He has delivered events and/or lectures at the New York Public Library, Taipei International Book Fair, University of Barcelona, Barnes and Noble and many more places outside the UK.
For school bookings please book your visit through Authors Aloud.
For anything else (festivals, libraries, etc.) please use the form at the bottom of this page. Steve will reply as soon as possible.
Steve is fully booked for World Book Day Week 2024.
Please use the form below to contact Steve Antony.
“THANK YOU for your visit yesterday. You managed to hold 60 children's interest, engage them with reading your stories and inspire them with the facts you shared, both about the process of becoming/being an author/illustrator, but mostly with your personal tales. When the children came in this morning, many of them were still talking to their friends about the fact that "I can't believe he's colour blind and he still became an author" or "When Mr Bass goes on about being resilient and overcoming barriers, that's what he means". In a short session, you gave our children clear examples of why we encourage them to persevere and showed them that anything is possible if you aim high and work hard. Our children got so much from your visit, so a huge THANK YOU from us.”
- Mr Bass, George Fentham Endowed School“Author Steve Anthony visited our school to introduce us to his book Rainbowsaurus and many more. He spoke about his career as a illustrator and children’s book author. He took us from his childhood in New Mexico where he discovered his passion for writing and drawing, to his first book and to his latest.
Steve has an inspiring story to tell, as he is colour blind, and he shared how that impacted his illustration career. He’s never allowed his colour blindness to hold him back, and he encouraged our boys, some of whom are colour blind themselves, to understand that this was not a detriment to his creativity, nor should it be to theirs.
He shared with us his drawing skills and really kept the children’s attention and interest with interactive storytelling. Ask him to read the Rainbowsauras and your students will love it. Our students had lots of questions for him, promoted by the subject matter of his presentation. Ours were particularly interested in how picture books are made compared to regular chapter books.
10/10 for his visit, suitable for children in Reception, Year 1, Year, 2 and Year 3.”
Mr Drewery, School Librarian, Rokeby School