WRITER IN RESIDENCE APPOINTED - KIRKLEES LIBRARIES

WRITER IN RESIDENCE APPOINTED - FOR KIRKLEES

I'm really pleased to announce that from 2020-21, I'll be working with Kirklees Council Libraries - and I'll have the honour of being their official Writer in Residence.

My mission is to get more people writing using the many - and varied - wonderful resources that our public libraries provide.

In particular, I want to ensure that we don’t ‘lose’ children from both reading and writing (for the sheer joy of it) once they reach those tricky teenage years. I also want to show those who are more ‘Reluctant Readers’ that our libraries are not just about novels, that these ‘people’s palaces’ of ours - our heritage, our sources of liberation and elevation - are today, more than ever, rammed full of information, help and very different forms of storytelling and information

This might be a very strange time to become Writer in Residence for Kirklees. However, with the backing of the library team, I'll be carrying out online chats with other authors, workshops and masterclasses as well as doing some good old-fashioned ‘real time’ sessions, once the libraries are in a position to open safely to the public

Starting Thurs 3rd September 2020, I'll be running online Writer in Residence sessions on the first Thursday of every month, at 11am. The sessions will be streamed on the YouTube and Facebook pages and will be available to catch up later if you miss them. I'll also be running some sessions as part of Talking Books. Find out more at https://www.funnylass.com/writer-in-residence/ and http://www.kirkleeslibraries.co.uk/writer-in-residence/

For more information visit http://www.kirkleeslibraries.co.uk/writer-in-residence/