An inspiring visit

[John Dean]

I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to a secondary school in Peterborough as part of National Crime Reading Month on Wednesday June 26.

In addition to giving a talk about crime writing to staff at Jack Hunt School, I held three creative writing workshops for students.

All the events were staged in the impressive school library with its displays and posters, which were designed especially for the event by a team including my daughter Laura, the library assistant at the secondary school (the two of us are pictured below).

I took as my theme the way that authors come across and develop ideas and many of the students who took part in the workshops – more than thirty of them - showed remarkable imagination, conjuring up strong ideas within just a few minutes. I reckon one or two of them, maybe more, will end up as authors!