Story-telling and Creative writing

Many of our Hackney Young Voices children mentioned that they loved writing and creating stories for film, animation or comics, so this was a chance for them to talk to authors who write stories for a living!

Anna Kemp is the author of many picture books and 8-12 fiction, including The Wrong Princess, Fantastic Frankie, and her first fantasy novel ‘Into Goblyn Wood’ is coming out this September.

https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/authors/Anna-Kemp/66825306

Emily Devane is award winning flash fiction writer and editor. Flash fiction are stories of 500 words or less, so each one counts to make it really good! Here are a few of her stories:

So you want to join the hopeful monster club?

The word swallower

Too long under water

The hand that wields the priest