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Supporting creative writing at the Bookchat Roadshow!

The Bookchat Roadshow celebrates children’s creativity and inspires parents and carers with ideas to support their child’s reading for pleasure and creative writing.

With this mind, I’m pleased to welcome Inkpots Writing Workshops who are participating in the Roadshow and will be on hand to give advice about encouraging creativity through stories. Founded by Gill Pawley, Inkpots Writing Workshops offer children age 7 – 12 the opportunity to express themselves through words and pictures in a secure, supportive environment. Their fun workshops are open to all young writers and artists; they provide after school clubs, workshops and specially-designed sessions for schools. New for 2017 is their online club, Inkpots Inc. Gill presented on creative writing at the inaugural event last October and will be exhibiting at this event:

“Inkpots is delighted to take part in the second Bookchat Roadshow. It’s a real pleasure to support this initiative to encourage children’s reading and writing”

For more information, you can visit their website www.inkpots.org or email gill@inkpots.org.

Parents and carers in the Sussex area can register for FREE to attend the Bookchat Roadshow, an event bringing together authors, industry experts and people passionate about children’s reading and writing for pleasure. With inspirational talks and an author panel bookchat, plus a selection of exhibitors, we give parents and carers a huge range of ideas to help them support their children’s creativity. Speakers include author Nikki Sheehan and also the team behind Scoop Magazine. The next event takes place on 20th July 2017 at Harlands Primary School, Haywards Heath, West Sussex.

For more information please visit www.thebookactivist.com.

Celebrating nature and creativity at the Bookchat Roadshow!

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Spending time in the great outdoors can be a great way to encourage children’s creativity, so I’m delighted that Nature Nuture Sussex are participating in the Bookchat Roadshow next month. Nature Nurture Sussex provide forest school sessions for pre-school and primary aged children, and their families in Mid Sussex and will be sharing their ideas and work with Roadshow visitors:

“We are delighted to be a part of the Bookchat Roadshow! At Forest School children have the freedom to explore, have fun and be inspired by the natural world around them – the ever changing natural classroom definitely feeds their imagination and their creativity. We love to hear the children talk about their time in the woods, and the real (and imaginary!) creatures they find there, making up stories, games and art outside.”

For more information visit www.thebookactivist.com.

Countdown begins….

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Exactly one month from today, the Bookchat Roadshow will be rolling into town!

The Roadshow brings together a whole host of wonderful people to inspire parents and carers with ideas for supporting their children’s reading for pleasure and creative writing. Visiting Harlands Primary, in Haywards Heath on 20th July, it’s an event not to be missed! After the success and positive feedback of the inaugural event last year, it was clear to me that parents and carers welcome this support. We all like to be inspired, especially when it comes to helping our children.

Nikki Sheehan, the Carnegie nominated author, will be sharing her experiences and talking about creative writing. The team behind Scoop Magazine will be talking all about their love of stories and how they encourage creativity. I’ll be sharing lots of ideas for encouraging a love of reading. And most exciting of all, Nikki Sheehan will be joined by Jenny McLachlan, Jamie Thomson and A. F.Harrold for an author panel bookchat. I cannot wait to ask our fabulous panel to share their insight into stories, reading and writing.

As if this wasn’t enough, there will be a group of brilliant local organisations exhibiting with advice for parents and carers covering a whole range of areas from creativity through nature to dyslexia. And all parents and carers attending will receive a wonderful goody bag filled with giveaways from children’s publishers. So what are you waiting for?! Register online now! For more information visit www.thebookactivist.com

Scoop at the Bookchat Roadshow!

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Two of the fantastic team behind Scoop magazine will be sharing their passion for stories with parents and carers at the Bookchat Roadshow!

Clementine Macmillan-Scott and Kate Manning will no doubt inspire the audience and encourage them to “Dig into the Story”:

“Scoop is a new magazine for children aged 8+. Launched in September 2016 and created by a small Hackney-based team, we boast some of the biggest names in children’s literature amongst our contributors – including Children’s Laureate, Chris Riddell, Neil Gaiman, Catherine Johnson, Jacqueline Wilson, Raymond Briggs, Celia Rees, Tom Stoppard, Joan Aiken and Diana Wynne Jones. Each issue includes short stories, poetry and graphic fiction that will excite and entertain.

We offer our readers the opportunity to explore everything from history and science to art and the unexplained through a vibrant range of amazing stories – and on top of that there are comic strips, activities, puzzles and jokes in every issue. We offer different types of stories for different types of readers. And it’s this love of getting different types of stories to different types of readers that means we want to be part of the roadshow.”

They will also be exhibiting at the event giving parents and carers the opportunity to find out more about Scoop.

The Bookchat Roadshow is an event designed especially for parents and carers bringing together authors, industry experts and people passionate about children’s reading and writing for pleasure. With inspirational talks and an author panel bookchat, plus a selection of exhibitors, we give parents and carers a huge range of ideas to help them support their children. The next event takes place on 20th July 2017 at Harlands Primary School, Haywards Heath, West Sussex. Read all about our last event here.

For more information about the Bookchat Roadshow visit www.thebookactivist.com.

Jamie Thomson at the Bookchat Roadshow!

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Helping parents and carers encourage their children’s reading and creative writing for pleasure.

Completing our fantastic author panel at the Bookchat Roadshow is none other than the Dark Lord’s minion himself, the brilliant Jamie Thomson!

Supporter of the Book Activist since it’s launch in 2015, Jamie delighted the audience with his dark humour and tales of boyhood reading at the inaugural Roadshow last year. I’m so pleased he will be joining us again to inspire – and scare! mmwwahhhhh! – more parents and carers into encouraging their children’s reading and creative writing.

Jamie has a diverse background in writing having created stories in many forms from computer games to gamebooks to comics to novels. His book The Dark Lord: The Teenage Years won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and his most recent instalment Dark Lord: The Headmaster of Doom was released in February this year.

Jamie’s insight into working as an author and in the creative industries will be hugely helpful to parents and carers looking to encourage their children’s creativity.