Type of Artist:
Course Director, MA Writing for Young People, Bath Spa University
Author talks
Creative writing workshops for children and adults
Readings
Combinations of these things
Can also do training sessions /professional development for teachers about creative writing
Primary ( 8 – 11 years )
Secondary ( 11 – 18);
Teachers; adults who want to write for children
One or two maximum, with break between
45 mins for talk with readings, question and answer session, followed by book signing;
Workshops by arrangement, and depending on age: 45 minutes for young children, one hour for older children; 2 – 3 hours for adults
Most places considered if can be accessed by public transport, and travel and overnight accommodation expenses are met.
I split my time between Newcastle-on-Tyne and Bath, so happy to visit schools in either place, as well as the rest of the country.
Train
The House of Light - Carnegie nominated, Times Children's Book of the Week; Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week
To the Edge of the World - Carnegie nominated
The Wilderness War
Seal Island
Sylvie and Star
Tilly's Moonlight Fox
Beowulf the Brave
Sephy's Story
For teens:
This Northern Sky
Drawing with Light
Breathing Underwater
Bringing the Summer
Blue Moon
Baby Blue
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