Join us at the University of Winchester, Winton Room 5, where our main speaker will be author Nate Crowley and our special guest is children’s poet Val Harris. We’ll also have the results of the January competition and announcement of the competition for February.
Talks are free for members. Non-members £10, students £2.
Playing with other people’s toys: the pros and cons of work for hire writing
Having written novels both with traditional publishers and as a freelancer for the Warhanmer 40,000 IP, Nate Crowley makes a practical comparison of his experiences in these two very different professional models, and offers his thoughts on making the best of both worlds
Nate Crowley is an author, interactive fiction consultant, videogames journalist and public speaker.
Nate has worked as a journalist, a publisher, a teacher and an aquarium guy. He has a degree which involved all sorts of stuff but basically ended up being about the history of natural history. He enjoys a good trip to the zoo, creating feasts, and staring into the wasteland behind his house. He loves to talk about beasts and SF and the sea, plus history and films and all kinds of nerd stuff.
Special Guest: Val Harris
Val will talk about writing and publishing in general and her own journey to writing poetry for children, why it’s important, how much it is appreciated by schools, and how little exposure it receives from booksellers.
Val Harris is a children’s poet and has had her poems published in several children’s publications including:The Caterpillar, Paperbound Magazine, The Toy Press, Little Thoughts Press, and she has multiple poems flying on the Dirigible Balloon, an online poetry resource for schools and individuals. Val has been writing for many years. She has published several adult books. She is passionate about poetry for children. It is an invaluable tool for helping children to understand language, as well as giving them confidence to write and to express themselves through poetry.
Leave a Reply