Scribblers Tour – Teaching Materials
Explore our selection of teaching materials designed to support teaching and learning before, during and after the Scribblers Tour. Many thanks to the authors and publishers who have supported us in producing this resource.
Scribblers Tour 2025 Teaching Resources
Steven Camden – Everything All At Once
Steven Camden, aka Polarbear, is a poet, playwright and novelist who has performed and collaborated all over the world. He celebrates the stories and characters inside us all, as he shares his process of creating a world that pupils will populate with voices, poems and more.
Liz Hyder – The Twelve
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Jenny Valentine – Us in the Before and After
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Ashley Hickson-Lovence – Wild East
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Emma Carroll – The Tale of Truthwater Lake
Emma Carroll has been nominated for and the winner of numerous national, regional and schools awards, including the Books Are My Bag Readers' Award, Branford Boase, CILIP Carnegie Medal, Young Quills, Teach Primary and the Waterstones Book Prize. More information on her books is available at: www.faber.co.uk/tutors/emma-carroll.
Karl Nova – The Curious Case of Karl Nova
Karl Nova is a Hip Hop artist, author and poet. He is the winner of CLiPPA 2018 for Rhythm and Poetry, his first published collection.
Visit Karl's website at: https://karlnovaworld.wordpress.com.
For more information and teaching resources visit: https://clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poets/nova-karl.
Laura Bates
As well as an author, Laura is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project; she works closely with politicians, businesses, schools, police forces and organisations from the Council of Europe to the United Nations to tackle gender inequality.
Benjamin Dean
How to Die Famous is Ben's second YA title. Inspired by his time as a celebrity reporter, we follow Abel down the Hollywood rabbit hole where secrets, scandal and just a little bit of murder hide behind the scenes of a popular teen TV show...
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Scribblers Tour 2023 Teaching Resources
Maz Evans
We all need a little perspective from time to time – and that is precisely what Maz Evans wants to offer in this interactive workshop all about Point of View. Taking an excerpt from Who Let The Gods Out? we will explore the events from all the different characters’ perspectives, before we choose whose diary entry we would like to write. As we'll see, the same circumstances can look very different depending on who is looking at them. And after all, looking at events from different angles can only make us better writers – and maybe better people too.
Matt Goodfellow
Join prize-winning poet Matt Goodfellow for a fun and interactive event where words will be brought to life. Experience Matt’s witty performance style and take part in a writing workshop which demonstrates why Matt believes poetry is ‘rebel writing’ and lets all young people use their own experiences to write poems ‘in their voice, about their life’. Matt’s latest poetry book Let’s Chase Stars Together is filled with poems about everything from friends, family and fitting in to growing up, standing tall and finding your people. This collection is the perfect place to lose yourself, find yourself and come out stronger on the other side.
Femi Fadugba
In Femi’s workshop, students will collaborate to write a short story from scratch, making use of AI, story science and the maddest ideas in our collective imaginations. Femi writes young adult sci-fi novels. His debut novel, The Upper World, is set to be a Netflix feature film, starring Daniel Kaluuya. In prior lives, Femi has worked as a science tutor, management consultant and solar power financier as well as graduating with a Master’s in Quantum Computing from Oxford University and University of Pennsylvania. Prepare to have your mind expanded with Femi in this workshop from the future.
Caroline O'Donoghue
Caroline's workshop will focus on the storytelling power of tarot cards, and how this ancient magical tool can be useful for creating stories, characters and situations. The workshop will also include an introduction to telling tarot, with plenty of cards to learn from. Caroline O'Donoghue is a New York Times bestselling author of the 'Gifts' trilogy, an Irish supernatural adventure focusing on a gang of friends who find special powers through the tarot cards. Caroline is also a podcaster, a screenwriter and the best friend of a small dog.
Scribblers Tour 2022 Teaching Resources
Steven Camden
Steven Camden, aka Polarbear, is a poet, playwright and novelist who has performed and collaborated all over the world. This informal and interactive session will be a celebration of the stories and characters inside us all, as he shares his process of creating a world that the pupils will populate with voices, poems and more.
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
In this fun, interactive and engaging event you’ll learn about the inspiration behind Kiran’s stories and her incredible journey to becoming a writer. Her books for children and young adults include the bestselling The Girl of Ink & Stars, The Island at the End of Everything, The Way Past Winter, Julia and the Shark, and The Deathless Girls. Kiran will also bring pupils on a creative writing adventure using myth, with a strong environmental theme, to create and explore new worlds.
View Kiran Millwood Hargrave Teacher Resources at chickenhousebooks.com
Joseph Coelho
Join the performance poet and playwright as he presents The Girl Who Became a Tree. A story told in poems, it introduces a wide variety of poetic forms, skilfully crafted by Joseph to describe narratives and events. In this session he will share insights into how poetry is uniquely placed to tell stories and will work with pupils to create their own poems that can punch, kick and scream.
Manjeet Mann
Author and actor Manjeet grew up in a house where there were no books. She was put on the 'slow readers' table in junior school and in secondary school was told "not to get her hopes up" for her English GCSE. In this interactive workshop, Manjeet will use her own story to help liberate young people from their fears around writing and open up a space for creativity, while supporting them to find their unique storytelling voice.
Scribblers Tour 2020 Teaching Resources
Ali Sparkes
Ali Sparkes is a journalist and broadcaster who can't help making stuff up. Fortunately she only makes stuff up in books, leaving her journalistic reputation intact. Ali, who lives in Southampton with her husband and two sons, has always loved adventure stories about kids who poke about in woods, about kids who are having a hard time but can still be brave and amazing, about kids who live an ordinary life until something extraordinary happens to them.
Aneirin Karadog
Aneirin Karadog is a poet, broadcaster, performer and linguist. He won the chair at the National Eisteddfod in Monmuthshire in 2016. He has been a presenter on Heno on S4C and Children's Poet of Wales. He was a rapper and a member of the bands Genod Droog and Diwygiad. He was brought up in Ponytypridd but now lives in Pontyberem in the Gwendraeth Valley.
Brian Conaghan
Brian Conaghan was born and raised in the Scottish town of Coatbridge but now lives in Dublin. He has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. For many years Brian worked as a teacher and taught in Scotland, Italy and Ireland. His first YA novel, When Mr Dog Bites, was shortlisted for the 2015 Carnegie Medal, and his second, The Bombs That Brought Us Together, won the 2016 Costa Children's Book Award. We Come Apart, a verse novel co-authored with Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan, won the 2018 UKLA Book Award, and his fourth novel, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers, won the 2018 Irish Book Award for Teen & Young Adult Book of the Year. His latest novel is The M Word.
Patrice Lawrence
Patrice Lawrence is an award-winning writer, whose debut YA novel Orangeboy won the Bookseller YA Prize and the Waterstones Prize for Older Children's Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award and many regional awards. Indigo Donut, her second book, was shortlisted for the Bookseller YA Prize, was Book of the Week in The Times, The Sunday Times and The Observer, and was one of The Times' top children's books in 2017. Both books have been nominated for the Carnegie Award. Her latest novel is Rose, Interrupted. Patrice was born in Brighton, brought up in an Italian-Trinidadian family in mid-Sussex, and now lives in East London.
Scribblers Tour 2019 Teaching Resources
Jenny Valentine – Crime Scene Investigation
Jenny Valentine is the author of Finding Violet Park and Broken Soup. For the Scribblers Tour 2019, she will be leading a creative writing workshop based on a Crime Scene Investigation.
Download PDF of the CSI lesson plan and student worksheets
Emma Carroll – Secrets of a Sun King
Emma Carroll is a secondary school English teacher. She has also worked as a news reporter, an avocado picker and the person who punches holes into filofax paper. More information on her books is available at: www.faber.co.uk/tutors/emma-carroll.
Download PDF of Emma Carroll lesson plan (Secrets of a Sun King)
Karl Nova – Rhythm and Poetry
Karl Nova is a Hip Hop artist, author and poet. He is the winner of CLiPPA 2018 for Rhythm and Poetry, his first published collection.
Visit Karl's website at: https://karlnovaworld.wordpress.com.
For more information and teaching resources visit: https://clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poets/nova-karl.
Nicky Singer – The Survival Game
Nicky's new book, The Survival Game, is a road movie about a girl and a boy trying to get to safety in a world ravaged by climate change.
To find out more about Nicky's work, visit her website nickysinger.com.
Alex Wheatle
Alex Wheatle is the author of several novels, some of them set in Brixton, where he grew up.
For more information, critical perspective and a full bibliography, please visit: https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/alex-wheatle.