Posts Tagged ‘writing competition’
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World Book Week writing competition results. . . and other news
4June 6, 2017 by Lydia Syson
Authors aren’t just for World Book Day, and the positive effects of an author visiting a school continue to have an impact long after books and banners have been packed up. (Here I am at Sidcot School, Somerset, where bookseller Books on the Hill kindly looked after sales and signing.) Not that the author always sees this. Happily, some of the schools I visited in March this year have sent me a selection of the writing their students produced in response to our sessions. I promised to send a hardback copy of the US edition of That Burning Summer to the author of the story I liked best. Little did I realise how hard it would be to choose.
Category News | Tags: author visits, books to introduce children to politics, historical fiction, Island of Last Hope, Liberty's Fire, Rainham Mark Grammar School, Sidcot School, That Burning Summer, The Mount School, winner, World Book Day, World Book Week, writing competition, YA for Sarah Waters fans
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Writing competition results
3May 2, 2014 by Lydia Syson
Last month I wrote about a high-tech school visit I’d made to Sydenham School in South London. Today I’m delighted to announce the results of the creative writing competition. keep reading
Category News | Tags: invasion, Jess Taylor, Julien Bryan, Poland, Sydenham School, USHMM, writing competition, WW2, WW2 fiction, Year 8 creative writing
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Diving deeper: into the ‘Glass Room’
0April 27, 2014 by Lydia Syson
Writing historical fiction demands total immersion. It’s a fairly obsessive process, but well worth it. Bit by bit, you build up an increasingly accurate and nuanced picture of the world your characters inhabit, discover what makes them tick, what might affect the way they think and feel about events. Not surprisingly, I was immediately intrigued when I was invited to use the new ‘immersion room’ at Sydenham School, London, for a planned event with some of their year 8 and 9 students. keep reading
Category News | Tags: audio visual, Author Profile, author visit, event, glasshouse, historical fiction, immersion room, LMF, NLT, School, South London Press, Sydenham School, total immersion, writing competition
