Children's Creative Writing Workshop 7-11yrs

About this event:

Join Nell Carroll Turner, our Writer in Residence for some fun, relaxed and practical creative writing workshops where children will explore the magic of language and writing. 7-11yrs. 

Come along with a favourite book or just turn up. This is a chance to let your ideas and imagination go wild and see where your writing takes you. We’ll use games, images and words to play with language and see how storytelling can turn into writing.

Creative writing allows children to explore their imagination, develop language skills, and express their personalities. Whether your child struggles with writing or is a confident wordsmith, this is a workshop for them. Children of all abilities are welcome.

Please note: parents/carers are not required to stay for the duration of the activity but we welcome parents/carers to relax in our café space during the session.

About Your Writer in Residence:

Nell Turner is a writer and performer who lives near Liskeard. She is incredibly excited about being Liskeard Library’s Writer in Residence. She is looking forward to facilitating workshops and events and celebrating writing in South East Cornwall.

Nell plays with language and dialogue and her writing is creative, poetic, absurd and often a bit wild. She particularly enjoys writing theatre scripts and short stories. Themes include diversity, belonging and nature with language play at the core. She loves collecting peoples’ stories, and writing tales based on fact but which swim wildly in the style of magic realism. As well as writing original work, Nell also translates from French and enjoys the creativity of transposing French verse and poetry to make them accessible and relevant. She is currently translating an autobiography of a French writer and poet.

Nell has over 25 years’ teaching experience and holds an MA in Applied Linguistics and an MA in Literary Translation. She is passionate about teaching, having taught creative writing and academic writing at university level. Nell’s stories and plays have been performed in various locations, including theatres, at the Edinburgh Fringe and in a Cattle Market.

Her latest play was shortlisted by the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of 37 Plays, a national playwriting project to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s Folio.