BECOMING A WRITER - A new series of author talks

 

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TALK 1: MEG ROSOFF

This week saw the first in our series of new events, ‘Becoming a Writer’ in The Cloud. We were delighted to introduce Meg Rosoff as our first author, Meg is the award winning author of several books including ‘How I live now’ ‘Just in Case’ and ‘There is No Dog.’ Meg gave a talk and ran a workshop on ‘Voice’ whereby she asked a series of questions encouraging students to think about themselves and their observations of the world around them.

The session was extremely enjoyable with girls engaging in lots of lively discussion ranging from the type of animal they would like to be to their deepest fears in life. Afterwards Meg signed books and chatted to the students.

Look out for the release of the film ‘How I Live Now’ coming to the screens in October 2013 starring Saoirse Ronan!

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PREPARING FOR OUR FIRST EVENT

The books have arrived for our 'Becoming a Writer' event next week, complete with the new cover designs! These will be on sale at the event next Thursday.

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BECOMING A WRITER

Here at The Cloud we are very excited to be launching our new series of Author Events, 'Becoming a Writer.' Launching next week with our first guest author Meg Rosoff, the series will feature a series of talks, Q & A sessions and workshops encouraging young people to write. The author talk will be filmed and featured on this blog and the school website, enabling others to benefit from the sessions.

Authors to feature inlcude:

Keren David

Phil Earle

Candy Gourlay

Catherine Johnson

Nicola Morgan

Val Rutt

Malaika Rose Stanley

If you are an author and you would like to take part please email: lesley.cheetham@egas.islington.sch.uk