Finding Your Voice, Telling Your Story workshop
Aberdeen Central Library
Rosemount Viaduct
Aberdeen
AB25 1GW
In this workshop for teenage writers, join multi-award-winning YA authorDanielle Jawando for a dynamic creative writing workshop that putsyouat the centre of the story. Through a series of reflective and inspiring exercises, youll explore how your voice shaped by your identity, background, and experiences can become a powerful tool for self-expression. With guided prompts and space to experiment, this session will help you discover how writing from where you come from can spark bold, original storytelling thats truly your own.
Danielle Jawando is an author and screenwriter. Her debut YA novel, And the Stars Were Burning Brightly , won best senior novel in the Great Reads Award, andwas shortlisted for the Waterstones Childrens Book Prize, the YA Book Prize, the Jhalak Childrens YA Prize, the Branford Boase Award and was long-listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Her previous publications include the non-fiction childrens bookMaya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives), as well as several short plays performed in Manchester and London. Danielle has also worked on Coronation Street
as a storyline writer.Her second novel, When Our Worlds Collided ,won the 2023 Jhalak Childrens and YA Prize, the YA Book Prize and the 2023 Diverse Book Awards. Her third YA novel, If My Words Had Wings , was published in May 2024.
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