Patrice Lawrence
Award winning author, Patrice Lawrence, visited EPHS on 3rd March as part of our World Book Day celebrations 2022. Patrice performed for our Year 9 and 10 students, introducing them to her books and tackling pertinent issues around diversity and representation in literature as well as answering questions in an open and honest way. The students were also given the exciting opportunity to buy one of Patrice’s books and have it signed by her after the talk.
Later in the day, a selected group of Year 9 students took part in an author workshop held in the Upper Library and were given some excellent creative writing hints and tips aimed at demystifying writing and encouraging them to find their own unique voices.
A selection of Patrice's books can be found in the Upper and Lower Libraries, including Rat her 'quick read' novel, which was long listed for this year's Carnegie Award. Look out for her new series The Elemental Detectives due out in September and described as 'historical plus fantasy plus mystery plus monsters!' - it's on our wish list!
Bishop Stortfort Festival of Literature
Running from 4th to 11th February 2022, this online Festival of Literature showcased some amazing YA and Children’s authors, and was a great opportunity for our students to see and hear the authors behind some of their favourite books. The authors included Historian David Olusoga; Alex Wheatle, award winning author of books including The Crongton Knights series; A M Dassu, whose book appeared on last year’s Read for Empathy List; Robert Muchamore, author of four action packed series including the Cherub series; and Emily Haworth-booth, who ran a graphic novel and comic workshop.
A recording of each session is available to view for up to a year after this event, with the exception of David Olusoga’s.
Chris Bradford
On Friday, 26th November and Friday 3rd December 2021, author Chris Bradford virtually visited EPHS to perform for our some of our Year 7 students. Back by popular demand, the students learnt about Chris’s fantastic Young Samurai series of books, including what inspired Chris to write them and an insight into the real life events, people and locations upon which they are set.
As before, this was a truly interactive and atmospheric session with changing backdrops, an author reading, Chris testing the students ‘ninja’ knowledge with a quiz, demonstrated his amazing samurai sword and held a brilliant Q&A session, which the students loved!
He also revealed that the second book in his explosive Soul Series, Soul Prophesy, is due out this coming February - it's on our wish list!
Chris’s second session for Year 7s is next Friday, 13th November.
Adisa the Verbaliser
Authors Aloud Awesome Authorfest
Today, Wednesday 16th December, was the second of our Year 8 Virtual Author Visits with the very lovely author Matt Oldfield, author of Unbelievable Football: The Most Incredible True Football Stories You Never Knew and the Jonny Ball: Accidental Football Genius series. Matt is also one half of the brothers who write the phenomenally successful Ultimate Football Heroes series, beloved by many of our football loving students.
CHRIS BRADFORD
On Friday, 6th November, author Chris Bradford virtually visited EPHS to perform for our some of our Year 7 students. The students learnt about Chris’s fantastic Young Samurai series of books, including what inspired Chris to write them and an insight into the real life events, people and locations upon which they are set.
A truly interactive and atmospheric session with changing backdrops, Chris gave an author reading, tested the students ‘ninja’ knowledge with a quiz, demonstrated his amazing samurai sword and held a brilliant Q&A session, which the students loved!
MARCUS SEDGWICK
On Friday, 2nd October, author Marcus Sedgwick virtually visited EPHS. Thirty of our Year 10 students were given the unique and exciting opportunity of finding out first-hand about the life of a successful writer and to ask him a question of their choice.
Marcus was very open and engaging about his experiences and invited the students to ask him anything about writing and books.
He began by taking them on a virtual tour of his writing room, talking them through the processes he goes through when writing his books and giving them an insight into the world of book publishing.
The students asked some interesting and insightful questions to which they received illuminating and thought-provoking answers.
They particularly enjoyed learning about the process of being an author and having questions answered from the perspective of a successful author. They all wished that there had been more time to be able to ask more questions and would love Marcus to visit again!
One student commented that "it was an amazing experience and I'm sure others would enjoy this very much if they had the opportunity!".
All those that took part will receive a signed copy of Marcus's brilliant Carnegie shortlisted book Saint Death.
ALEX WHEATLE
His performances were tailored slightly differently to suit the different audiences, with the Year 8 performance including a Q&A session at the end.
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