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Ash Manor’s Published Authors

Three new books have arrived in our library, containing some of our students' poems. These students have been working hard in Creative Writing Club to plan, write, and submit their work into a national competition. Each of the competitions had a different theme: Lest We Forget; Fight or Flight; Mission Chaos. 

Mission Chaos was a challenge to write a 100-word mini saga with the topic: the end of the world. Congratulations to the following students have had their submission published:

Elena Champlin

Leila Khalil

Elizabeth Wardle

Abigail Wildash

Lilly Green

 

Fight or Flight is a collection of short stories based on what certain characters do when faced with a decision. Really well done to these students who have had their submission published: 

Sonnie-James Sarjant

Anastasia Dop

Lest We Forget tasked the students in writing a poem in tribute to World War One, capturing the experiences of war. The following students have had their submission published: 

Elena Chaplin

We look forward to more success in future competitions with our creative writers. If anyone would like to join the club, please come along to 023 afterschool on a Tuesday. Thank you to Miss Capper for all her work supporting these budding writers.

Author Visit: Ali Sparkes

On Thursday 1st May, the wonderful author Ali Sparkes, who has written books such as Finding Fox and the Shapeshifters series, visit our Y8 students.

In the morning, she gave a talk to Y8 and gave the students an insight into the ups and downs of life as a writer, offering students the opportunity to interact and ask questions.

During the day, selected students were able to take part in one of two X-Factor Workshops run by Ali. In these sessions, students came up with their own stories: writing the blurb and first page. The ideas were amazing, with topics including: AI parents, mysterious disappearances, and killer clowns! Each idea was put forward to a vote and one team in each session emerged victorious.

At lunch, Ali was in our school library meeting students and signing books and postcards for them. There was a scene of excitement as students from all years flocked to ask Ali questions about being an author and her stories.

Finally, our budding journalist Leela Peters interviewed Ali for the school newsletter asking her a series of probing questions about what it is like to be an author. Look out for this half term’s issue of Manor Mail for the interview.

Many thanks to Ali Sparkes for visiting us at Ash Manor and it is great to see how many budding authors we have amongst us! And thank you also to Mrs Van-Niekerk, our librarian and the English team for their organisation.

 

 

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