ITEM: Author event with Sally Nicholls.
DETAILS: School/bookshop visit or other author event to comprise no more than three hours. Can be a combination of:
Creative writing workshop (9 – adult)
Author talk (on the creative process, but may also include the Black Death or Victorian baby farmers. Can also talk about women in the first world war to tie in with Armistice celebrations)
Workshop for adults on writing for young people
My books are aimed at 9-13 year olds, but I have talked to children as young as five, and am often asked to talk to sixth formers.
School must pay travel expenses from Oxford and offer accommodation if necessary. Please note that I am already engaged for World Book Day 2014 but have limited availability during the rest of the week. Do contact me via http://www.sallynicholls.com or on Twitter (@Sally_Nicholls) if you have a specific date in mind.
BIO: Sally Nicholls was born in Stockton, just after midnight, in a thunderstorm. Her father died when she was two and she and her brother were brought up by her mother. She has always loved reading and spent most of her childhood trying to make life work like it did in books. After school, she worked in Japan for six months and travelled around Australia and New Zealand, then came back and did a degree in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick. In her third year she enrolled in a Master in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University. It was here at the age of twenty-two that she wrote Ways to Live Forever, her first novel, which went on to win the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2008. She was also named Glen Dimplex New Writer of the Year in 2008. Sally’s later work includes Season of Secrets, All Fall Down and the really rather terrifying ghost story Close Your Pretty Eyes.
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