Free writing for children workshop with award-winning author Patrice Lawrence
Mon 27 Jan 2025 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Dover Library, CT16 1PD
Description
This two-hour workshop, presented by award-winning author Patrice Lawrence, will give you a great grounding in the basics of writing for children. The session will cover everything from choosing your readership and concept to developing plot and characterisation, with time for questions. Participants will also get the chance to join a writing group after the workshop, offering further support and an all-important writing community.
Workshop organiser All Stories offers free development opportunities to talented writers from underrepresented backgrounds. The 2024 programme includes writing workshops and writing groups. To register, you must be over 18, reside in the UK and from an underrepresented group. This is defined as those who identify as a person of colour, LGBTQ+, disabled, neurodiverse, working class or socio-economically disadvantaged.
This is a free event but places are limited. If you are unable to attend please contact us as soon as possible so that your place can be offered to someone on the waiting list.
Meet your workshop host: Patrice Lawrence
Patrice Lawrence is a Sussex-born writer for children and young people from picture book texts to novels for teenagers and young adults. She has been shortlisted for and won a number of major prizes including the YA Prize, the Waterstones Prize for Older Children's Fiction, the Jhalak Prize for Children and Young People and the Little Rebels Children's Award. She has been awarded an MBE for Literature and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is the current Booktrust Writer-In-Residence with a focus on children facing challenging circumstances.
Location
Dover Library, CT16 1PD