Creative writing workshops North London

Even though we are nearing the end of the academic year, it is still worth starting our clubs as you can give the children the reading and writing bug for the summer holidays!   Club Name Online or in person Year Group Time Dates Do we have spaces? Good for entrance exams? Junior Writers’ Club online 3 to 6 (children 
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Dear Thomas, I hope you are well. We’ve written to you before – I think it was when The Last Wild first came out. I know that since then you have drawn many more maps! How fantastic!  We now have a new generation of book clubbers so I introduced The Last Wild to them, which they read and enjoyed. We 
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Ok… so this requires a DRUM ROLL… as you all know we are proud of what all the children write at The Story Room and we all work hard on building their confidence and ability as writers. Jessica has been coming to The Story Room since she was little. She has always been an absolute pleasure to write with and 
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This Saturday we are celebrating Roald Dahl’s birthday at the Story Room with a Roald Dahl creative writing workshop   – so if you have a 7-10 year old that would like some writing fun, come to our Muswell Hill Writing Club on Saturday 15th September at 2pm. Booking in advance is advised. Location:  South Friern Library, Colney Hatch Lane, Muswell 
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CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS – SUMMER 2018  Come to Miriam’s Mondays at East Finchley Library for some creative writing fun! Monday 23rd July 2018 10am to 12pm  The ‘Hairy Toe’ Spooky Poetry Workshop We’ll learn all about how to create ATMOSPHERE in our writing – specifically, a spooky atmosphere. In this workshop we will write poems that will have you on the edge of your seats. 
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Saturday 28th April CAROLINE GREEN WORKSHOP We have the pleasure of welcoming Caroline (Cass) Green to run a workshop with our writers on Saturday 28th April . Her books for young adults have won many awards  and her latest novel for adults, ‘In a Cottage in a Wood’,  is a Sunday Times top ten bestseller.  Caroline has years of experience teaching teens. Caroline 
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Dear Tatum Flynn, Thank you so much for the inspiring workshop on graphic novels last night. We all enjoyed your company and your wisdom! We have many talented writers in our group, so it is always great to see them learning something new and discovering new ways and styles of writing. Your inspiration will remain with them for a long 
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When people ask us why a child should read, write or listen to poetry we always refer them to The University of Cambridge’s article… The Case for Children’s Poetry because it says it all! If you don’t have time to read it – in a nutshell it says ‘Children’s responses to poetry are innate, instinctive, natural’ ‘It enlarges the sympathies, helps us 
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WOW! What wonderful stories and poems were entered into The Story Room Summer Competition 2017. Thank you to all who entered their wonderful writing. The standard of the writing was very high and it was not easy to choose the winners but after much discussion,  deliberation and re-reading we did… and DRUMROLL…. we are delighted to announce that the winners 
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SUMMER WRITING COMPETITION! Each child attending our summer workshops will have the opportunity to submit their best piece of work (written in the workshops) to be entered into our Summer Writing Competition. 1st prize in each age category –  A free Story Room workshop and a £10.00 book voucher. 2nd prize in each age category – A £10.00 book voucher. Runner-up in each age 
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