Write Club

Write Club is for anyone aged between 9 and 16 who loves writing and wants to learn more about the craft.

IT IS NOT JUST ANOTHER ENGLISH LESSON!

In Write Club rules get broken and boundaries get pushed.

• Ever fancied performing your written work to music?
• Or learning how to write and perform poetry or rap?
• Or story-telling around a bonfire?
• Or writing your first novel at the age of 12?

If so, Write Club might be just the thing for you.

“The first rule of Write Club is that the rule book gets torn up!”

Write Club is run by myself:

And Sara Starbuck, author of Breakfast Epiphanies and the Dread Pirate Fleur series.

About Sara

Sara dropped out of university after her first term, determined to become a professional dancer.  She was a member of Visual Contact, a dance troupe which taught street dancing skills to underprivileged kids.  As this was the early nineties, she also appeared on TV and in various music videos, wearing a series of embarrassing boiler-suity outfits.

She hung up her legwarmers for good after a knee injury in 1992 and returned to university to complete a degree in English Literature, with Writing and Publishing. Upon graduating, Sara immediately ran off to America with a rock band, where she wrote her first novel … which was awful.

The fiction bug had bitten, though, and when she got home again, Sara finally put her degree to use and took a job with Hodder & Stoughton Publishers, quickly moving from export sales to the editorial department. Sara commissioned contemporary mass market fiction and sagas before leaving to work for some of London’s most respected literary agents.  She also works as a freelance editor, specializing in commercial fiction and children’s books.

Since 2000, she has written three published works, including the memoir Breakfast Epiphanies (with her husband, Toby – Atlantic Books, 2006), and the children’s adventure novels, The Dread Pirate Fleur and the Ruby Heart (Random House, 2009) and its sequel, The Dread Pirate Fleur and The Hangman’s Noose (Random House, 2010). The Dread Pirate Fleur and the Ruby Heart has just been short-listed for the Salford Children’s Prize.

She lives in West Sussex with Toby, and their four-year-old son, Tom.

About Siobhan

Siobhan dropped out of university after two years to go and work in a video store.

While she was there she started keeping notebooks full of ideas for novels.

It took several years and several other rubbish jobs before Siobhan finally plucked up the courage to actually do something about those notebooks.

Her first book, the non-fiction Antenatal & Postnatal Depression, was published in 2000. Then she wrote her first novel for adults, Sweet FA, which led to her meeting Sara Starbuck – the editor at Hodder & Stoughton who very kindly gave her a book deal!

Siobhan had two more novels for adults published by Hodder – Frankie Says Relapse and The Scene Stealers (a novel set in a video store very like the one she used to work in!)

In 2007 she published her fourth novel for adults, Finding the Plot, herself.

Then, after running numerous workshops for young people in schools and for various London councils, she decided to move into Young Adult and Children’s Fiction.

Her first novel for young adults, Dear Dylan has been long-listed for the Young Minds Book Award and she is now half way through writing her second YA novel.

She also works for a children’s fiction development company, developing book series for all different age groups.

Siobhan lives in London with her son Jack and their dog Max.

She loves America, photography, Paris, rock music, tattoos, forests and chocolate raisins.

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