Creative Writing Club
CALLING ALL YOUNG WRITERS!
Join local author Donna McLean for a six-week after school course to help inspire your imagination, boost your writing confidence, and expand your creativity.
Our group numbers are capped, keeping them deliberately small, so that the children and young people can build confidence in their writing and in group discussion. Creative Writing Club will take place in six-week blocks on Thursdays during term-time, in the relaxed environment of The Folkestone Bookshop. The hour-long sessions are friendly and fun!
Group 1: 8-11 years
We’ll be encouraging imagination and creativity, working with ideas, prompts and our five senses. Once we have an idea for a story, we’ll start to look at character. From character, we’ll look at developing a plot. Expect a lively, playful and engaging atmosphere!
Group 2: 12-16 years
Specifically for young people aged 12 and above, the teenage writers’ group is fun, supportive and informal. Discussion and independent thought are encouraged, allowing like-minded young people to come together in sharing their natural curiosity and love of writing.
Details
Thurs 11th September through to Thurs 16th October
4pm-5pm for ages 8-11
5.15pm-6.15pm for ages 12-16
At The Folkestone Bookshop, 70-72 Tontine Street CT20 1JP
£10 per session per child, discounts available for multiple children
About Donna
Donna McLean is a Folkestone-based writer, filmmaker and mum of twins. She spent thirty years working in mental health and addiction services, as a nurse, outreach worker, counsellor and manager. Donna has also trained as a mindfulness teacher, working with children, young people and adults.
Donna began writing again in 2017, completing a local six-week course and won a place on the prestigious year-long mentoring programme with Penguin Random House, WriteNow. Donna recently spent a year in Ireland, studying Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University.
Donna has published many articles including in the Guardian, Independent, Press & Journal, etc., has written numerous opinion pieces and has had short stories in Spelk plus an anthology, The Middle Of A Sentence.
Donna’s memoir, Small Town Girl, was published by Hachette in February 2022. She is currently working on her second book and a documentary film.
CALLING ALL YOUNG WRITERS!
Join local author Donna McLean for a six-week after school course to help inspire your imagination, boost your writing confidence, and expand your creativity.
Our group numbers are capped, keeping them deliberately small, so that the children and young people can build confidence in their writing and in group discussion. Creative Writing Club will take place in six-week blocks on Thursdays during term-time, in the relaxed environment of The Folkestone Bookshop. The hour-long sessions are friendly and fun!
Group 1: 8-11 years
We’ll be encouraging imagination and creativity, working with ideas, prompts and our five senses. Once we have an idea for a story, we’ll start to look at character. From character, we’ll look at developing a plot. Expect a lively, playful and engaging atmosphere!
Group 2: 12-16 years
Specifically for young people aged 12 and above, the teenage writers’ group is fun, supportive and informal. Discussion and independent thought are encouraged, allowing like-minded young people to come together in sharing their natural curiosity and love of writing.
Details
Thurs 11th September through to Thurs 16th October
4pm-5pm for ages 8-11
5.15pm-6.15pm for ages 12-16
At The Folkestone Bookshop, 70-72 Tontine Street CT20 1JP
£10 per session per child, discounts available for multiple children
About Donna
Donna McLean is a Folkestone-based writer, filmmaker and mum of twins. She spent thirty years working in mental health and addiction services, as a nurse, outreach worker, counsellor and manager. Donna has also trained as a mindfulness teacher, working with children, young people and adults.
Donna began writing again in 2017, completing a local six-week course and won a place on the prestigious year-long mentoring programme with Penguin Random House, WriteNow. Donna recently spent a year in Ireland, studying Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University.
Donna has published many articles including in the Guardian, Independent, Press & Journal, etc., has written numerous opinion pieces and has had short stories in Spelk plus an anthology, The Middle Of A Sentence.
Donna’s memoir, Small Town Girl, was published by Hachette in February 2022. She is currently working on her second book and a documentary film.
CALLING ALL YOUNG WRITERS!
Join local author Donna McLean for a six-week after school course to help inspire your imagination, boost your writing confidence, and expand your creativity.
Our group numbers are capped, keeping them deliberately small, so that the children and young people can build confidence in their writing and in group discussion. Creative Writing Club will take place in six-week blocks on Thursdays during term-time, in the relaxed environment of The Folkestone Bookshop. The hour-long sessions are friendly and fun!
Group 1: 8-11 years
We’ll be encouraging imagination and creativity, working with ideas, prompts and our five senses. Once we have an idea for a story, we’ll start to look at character. From character, we’ll look at developing a plot. Expect a lively, playful and engaging atmosphere!
Group 2: 12-16 years
Specifically for young people aged 12 and above, the teenage writers’ group is fun, supportive and informal. Discussion and independent thought are encouraged, allowing like-minded young people to come together in sharing their natural curiosity and love of writing.
Details
Thurs 11th September through to Thurs 16th October
4pm-5pm for ages 8-11
5.15pm-6.15pm for ages 12-16
At The Folkestone Bookshop, 70-72 Tontine Street CT20 1JP
£10 per session per child, discounts available for multiple children
About Donna
Donna McLean is a Folkestone-based writer, filmmaker and mum of twins. She spent thirty years working in mental health and addiction services, as a nurse, outreach worker, counsellor and manager. Donna has also trained as a mindfulness teacher, working with children, young people and adults.
Donna began writing again in 2017, completing a local six-week course and won a place on the prestigious year-long mentoring programme with Penguin Random House, WriteNow. Donna recently spent a year in Ireland, studying Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University.
Donna has published many articles including in the Guardian, Independent, Press & Journal, etc., has written numerous opinion pieces and has had short stories in Spelk plus an anthology, The Middle Of A Sentence.
Donna’s memoir, Small Town Girl, was published by Hachette in February 2022. She is currently working on her second book and a documentary film.