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Young Writers News




World Book Day

On the 1st March children will be coming together to celebrate World Book Day. This special day is in aid of celebrating authors, illustrators, books and most of all the celebration of reading worldwide.

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Happy 11th Birthday to Amber Taylor

Young Writers would like to say a big happy birthday to Amber Taylor, from Great Bowden CE Primary School, who is celebrating her 11th birthday on the 8th February 2012.

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Budding young writers see their own stories in print

Year 4 pupils at Great Finborough Primary School had the great opportunity of seeing their stories in print after successfully getting through the Young Writers' 2011 Creative Writing Competition for children aged between 7-11.

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Dickens 2012

Dickens 2012 is an international celebration of the life and work of Charles Dickens which will take place to mark the bicentenary of his birth on 7th February 2012. Events are taking place all over the UK and overseas, including plays in theatres, exhibitions, family workshops and writing competitions.

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Imagine Children's Festival

This great festival run by children will be taking place from the 11th - 19th February 2012 at the South Bank Centre, London.

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Children in Need Total Announced

We announced on 9th November that Young Writers would donate 25p from each order received between 9th - 18th November 2011 to Children In Need.

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Two reception class children feature in Young Writers Anthology

Two gifted reception class pupils are celebrating after their poems were chosen to feature in an anthology of work from talented young writers.

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Children in Need

Young Writers are pleased to announce this year we will be donating 25p from every order placed between 9th - 18th November 2011 Children In Need.

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The Great Exhibition 2012 - Vote for Young Writers

Young Writers has been listed in this year's online 'The Great Exhibition 2012' and we would love for all our young writers, parents and teachers to vote for us! The Great Exhibition 2012 has a range of companies, people, objects and much more to vote for. The reason behind the voting is what you find 'great' about Britain.

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The Northern Children's Book Festival and Gala

From the 7th - 20th November The Northern Children's Book Festival is taking place. Children will have the opportunity to meet their favourite authors and talk about the books they love. Over 40 well-known writers, poets and illustrators will be visiting schools and libraries throughout the festival period. A gala is also taking place from the 19th - 20th November allowing children, parents, carers and families to enjoy all that the festival has to offer.

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Young Writers Half Term Writing Club
25th October Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill, Durham

Young Writers Half Term Writing Club invites anyone between 11-14 years old who loves writing stories to join in and have the opportunity to meet a novelist and screen writer.

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Gryffe High School published students praise!

Ms Lawson, part of the English Department from Gryffe High School, shared her excitement in the school's newsletter about a group of students who attend the school. The students sent their poems to Young Writers' Poetry Matters competition and have been informed that 27 of them have been accepted and published! Students featured in Poetry Matters - Glasgow and Southern Scotland.

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My Day At... - Newspaper Announcement

Four-year-old Ella Foster has been announced as one of Mansfield's youngest poets.

Ella attends Whizzkids Playgoup in Nottingham where the nursery leaders have encouraged her and other children from the nursery to use their young imaginations and create a poem about their favourite day out using the templates provided. Templates are used to give 'first example of poetry and writing a creative piece'.

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Meet the Poet - Robyn Lacey

Congratulations to Robyn Lacey (11) for an excellent debut spoken word performance of her own poem, ‘The Word Weed’ at the Brit Writers’ Awards in July 2010.

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Meet the Teacher - Sue Homewood

Sue Homewood is a teacher and she recognised the talent of one of her pupils Robyn Lacey. Sue contacted the organisers after the submission closing date and they were so impressed with Robyn’s poetry, they invited her to perform her poem at the awards ceremony at the O2 Arena on Thursday 16th July 2010.

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David James selects Mini Sagas - London & Hertfordshire as his favourite book!

Every year, football clubs across the UK pick a Reading Champion to select a children's book and an adult book which has inspired them. This year, Portsmouth's goalie, David James, has selected a Young Writers' book from the Mini Sagas series. Also England’s goalie, David James is the only Reading Champion to have been selected every year since the Premier League Reading Stars programme was formed.

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Beth’s poem makes headlines!

When asked to write an ‘inspirational’ poem for Young Writers’ latest poetry competition, Poetry Explorers, Beth Jordan composed a poem that stood out from the rest.

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Young Writers donates £500 to Wessex Heartbeat

Here at Young Writers we are delighted to announce that a donation of £500 was made to Wessex Heartbeat at Christmas.

Beth Jordan’s inspirational poem, ‘No One Famous’ - about Marcus Haw, her consultant cardiac surgeon, was published in Poetry Explorers - Poems from Hampshire with 10% of the sales promised to the charity.

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