Writing for Children: Melvin Burgess & Jenny Valentine, Guest: Gillian Cross

Writing for Children: Melvin Burgess & Jenny Valentine, Guest: Gillian Cross

Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 24th Jul - Sat 29th Jul, 2017
5:00pm - 10:00am

Location
Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire , IV4 7HT


Finding your inner child.

If you are serious about writing original fiction for young people aged from six to sixteen and up, this is the course for you. The week will include individual tutorials and workshops covering such topics as story, character, and voice for children of all ages. Our aim is to help you solve your writing problems, and to provide approaches and insights to inspire the confidence necessary for great writing.

Melvin Burgess has written over twenty novels for young adults. He won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 1997 for his controversial novel Junk. His novel Doing It was adapted as a television series called Life As We Know It.
www.melvinburgess.net

Jenny Valentine studied English Literature at Goldsmiths College. Before writing full time, she worked in a wholefood shop, as a teaching assistant and a jewellery maker. Jenny won the Guardian Prize for Children’s Fiction with her debut novel Finding Violet Park, which was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her second novel, Broken Soup was shortlisted for both the Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year Award and Costa Children’s Book of the Year Award. In 2009 Jenny was chosen as a World Book Day contributor and wrote the short story Ten Stations. Other works include teenage novels, The Ant Colony, The Double life of Cassiel Roadnight and a book series for younger readers, Iggy and Me, short stories featuring the antics of two sisters. Her fifth novel, Fire Colour One, has been shortlisted for 2016’s Carnegie Medal. Jenny Valentine’s work has been translated into 17 languages.

Gillian Cross has written over fifty books. She has visited countries all over the world to speak about her work which has been translated into many other languages. Her novel Wolf won the Library Association’s Carnegie Medal and The Great Elephant Chase won both the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Children’s Novel Award. More recently, After Tomorrow, her novel about refugees, has won several prizes including the Little Rebels Award. Her Demon Headmaster books have been the basis of a play, a musical and a very successful BBC television series. A new Demon Headmaster book is due out in 2017.

On this course, tutors will read a sample of your work ahead of time to get a feel for your work. Details of how and when to submit this will be sent to you in the course notes upon booking.

Bookings

This course is now fully booked. Please contact us on info@moniackmhor.org.uk or 01463 741 675 to be added to the waiting list.


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