Tag: storytelling

  • Drawing in Prison! – Wigtown Sketchbook First Day

    Follow my Kickstarter at www.wigtownsketchbook.com Today is the first day of the Wigtown Book Festival and I was sent to Dumfries Prison where I spent the afternoon drawing with eight big guys in a small art room! I’ve never been in a prison before and I have to admit that all the security and that…

  • Dragon Gold highly commended by Tir na n-Og Prize

    I’m thrilled to announce that Dragon Gold has been Highly Commended by the Tir na n-Og Prize judging panel. You may also be interested to know that Dragon Gold is turning into a trilogy – I’ve been commissioned by Firefly to write the second book in the series, called Dragon White, which we are among…

  • Reading For Pleasure

    Hooray! The DoE report – Reading: the next steps – gives official recognition to the idea that reading books is a good thing and that reading books matters. Many people have always known this. While every method available should be used to start children decoding those squiggles, to become confident decoders of text and deconstructers of grammar, it is…