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Creative writing

Activities to help you get creative with your writing

Enter the Forest of Lost Things with David C. Flanagan … if you DARE!!! 

Posted on 17 August 20223 October 2022
  • 1st level
  • Authors
  • Creative writing
  • Imagination
  • Key stage 2

Lynx, Lichen and Wolves – Oh, my! Rewilding Scotland with Lindsay Littleson 

Posted on 17 August 20224 October 2022
  • Authors
  • Creative writing
  • Environmental
  • Festival
  • Geography
  • Key stage 2
  • Science

Challenging Discrimination with Patrice Lawrence  
and Jason Reynolds 

Posted on 14 August 20224 October 2022
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Celebrating Difference
  • Creative writing
  • Expressive Arts
  • Key stage 4
  • Race

Reading Scotland: Ross Sayers with Niamh McKeown, Adventures on the Clockwork Orange

Posted on 7 December 202128 April 2022
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Celebrating Difference
  • Creative writing
  • Edinburgh
  • Senior phase

Resilience Round-Up: Helping you keep your calm in stressful situations.

Posted on 22 February 202123 February 2021
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Creative writing
  • Mental Health

Citizen Winter Warmer – free online creative activities for everyone!

Posted on 2 December 20202 December 2020
  • 1st level
  • 2nd level
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • All Levels
  • Christmas
  • Creative writing
  • Picture books
  • Teachers

Formidable Females with Lari Don and Eilidh Muldoon

Posted on 7 October 202013 October 2020
Formidable Females with Lari Don and Eilidh Muldoon
  • 1st level
  • 2nd level
  • Celebrating Difference
  • Creative writing
  • Feminism
  • Festival
  • Gender
  • Illustration
  • Key stage 1
  • Key stage 2
  • Sexism
  • Storytelling

Writing Resistance with Nikita Gill and Nic Stone

Posted on 19 August 202017 September 2020
Fight against social injustice with SLAM! and Dear Justyce
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Celebrating Difference
  • Creative writing
  • Festival
  • Key stage 3
  • Key stage 4
  • Senior phase

Retelling Tales with Joseph Coelho, Juno Dawson and Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Posted on 19 August 202017 September 2020
Subvert classic stories with The Girl Who Became a Tree, Wonderland and The Deathless Girls
  • Creative writing
  • Festival
  • Key stage 4
  • Key stage 5
  • Senior phase
  • Storytelling

Delving Into Dark Themes with Liz Hyder

Posted on 19 August 202017 September 2020
Explore life in the mines with Bearmouth
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Creative writing
  • Festival
  • Key stage 3
  • Key stage 4
  • Senior phase

Super Sleuths with Sharna Jackson and Robin Stevens

Posted on 18 August 202017 September 2020
Become a Dynamic Story Detective with the Murder Most Unladylike and High-Rise Mystery series
  • 2nd level
  • Creative writing
  • Festival
  • Key stage 2

Find out Your Superpower with Samantha Baines

Posted on 13 August 202017 September 2020
Explore difference as something to be celebrated in Harriet Versus the Galaxy
  • 2nd level
  • Celebrating Difference
  • Creative writing
  • Festival
  • Key stage 2

Taking Poems off the Page with Joseph Coelho

Posted on 13 August 202017 September 2020
Explore the art of poetry performance with Poems Aloud
  • 1st level
  • 2nd level
  • Creative writing
  • Key stage 1
  • Key stage 2
  • Poetry

Illustrating Feelings with Dunja Jogan

Posted on 12 August 202024 September 2020
Explore feelings through art in Dunja Jogan's Felix After the Rain
  • 1st level
  • Creative writing
  • Early level
  • EYFS
  • Friendship
  • Key stage 1
  • Mental Health
  • Nature
  • Picture books

Yours Faithfully: Letter Writing with Leyla Josephine

Posted on 12 August 202021 August 2020
This reflective writing exercise, devised by our Citizen Schools Writer in Residence, helps provide a structure for a personal piece of writing.
  • 2nd level
  • 3rd / 4th level
  • Creative writing
  • Self image
  • Senior phase

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