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School Talks

I am currently available for talks and workshops in schools. 

Talks include:

Creative Writing Techniques For Exams

  • How to get the marks

  • Key language techniques

  • Senses & sensory memories

  • The ‘When, Where, Who, What, Why’ method of planning

  • Different registers & structuring ‘a moment in time’

Comprehension & the Technical Tool Kit

  • 'The English Technical Tool Kit': Key techniques that will see you through to A-Levels

  • Where the marks are: Learn the mark schemes behind the questions

  • How to answer longer questions & get the marks

  • Answering ‘how’ questions

  • P.E.E.: How to write less & get more marks

Masterclasses on Set Texts
 

Texts include:

  • Macbeth

  • Hamlet

  • Othello

  • Faustus

  • An Inspector Calls

  • Lord of The Flies 

  • Of Mice and Men

  • 1984

  • Dubliners

  • Yeats

  • Milton

  • GCSE poetry anthologies

 

… & many others! I delight in teaching unusual & off-syllabus texts for coursework.

 

As a published author of YA fiction, I can also offer talks on the creative process.

Being an Author and the Creative Process

  • Explaining the creative process from start to finish

  • Discover how to write a novel

  • Good writing practices

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