Mayflower Junior & Young Writers

Weekly Term-Time Sessions at MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton

Are you aged 7-10, or 11-14? Would you like to learn more, meet new friends, and develop your creative writing practice? Our blog is a great place to see what Young Writers get up to, and if you can't make the sessions at MAST, you can have a go at some of the exercises and challenges we wherever you happen to be at the time.

These groups are free to attend thanks to generous support from Mayflower Theatre, Arts Council England, and Amazon Literary Partnership.

Empathy

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Sound

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Sight

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Touch

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Endings

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Characters

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Senses

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Theatre

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Treasure

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Boxes

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Questions and Character

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The Future

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Nature

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Eurovision Writing!

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Rhyming and Rhythm

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Killing Your Darlings

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Character and Performance

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Stuck in a Lift

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Discovery

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Prompts, Dialogues, and Cliché

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Titles, blurbs and openings

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Haiku

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Ali Sparkes

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Newspapers

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photographs

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Autumn inspiration

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Values

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Acrostic Poetry and Flash Fiction

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National Poetry Day

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Summer Term Showcase - That's A Wrap

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Home - Round 2

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Short Stories & Word Association

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What is Pink?

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Exploring home – a place, person, house

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What Do You Really Mean? Writing...

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Going inside – from a spark to a story

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What Lives Behind That Door?

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The Mousetrap - Mayflower Young and...

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Breaking News!!!

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Young writers exercise their...

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Superpowers, Superwriters!

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Who Am I?

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Sharing Our Worlds

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Exisiting in an Apocalypse

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Origin Stories

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Lightbulb Moments

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What Is In A Name?

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Expanding Islands

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Microworld Animal Crossings

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Stories of the Dust and Character...

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We let Our Talents Glisten

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A Is For...

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The Universe and Everything...

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Pet Prime Ministers

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Poetic Perseus

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Perseus Art Gallery Trip

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Rocket Man

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A Poem of Birds and Blood

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Happy Platinum Jubilee!

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Creation Myths

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There's A Game In The Garden

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Cake and Parties

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A Flash Of Inspiration

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World Poetry Day

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ArtfulScribe Spoken Word Weekender...

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Postcards & Self-Portraits

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Myself as... A Collaborative Poem

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Blaga Burogu Ibhulogi

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What is love?

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A Diary of Ice and Fire

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Just A Minute, I’m Popping to the Shops

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World War Scone

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Hands On Humanity 2021

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A Gallery Rising

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Fantastically Great Women Review

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Firework Crisis

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Lists, lists and more lists

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Discover Sophia Thakur

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I am... Great Women

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Fun Palace Loveliness

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Timeless Selfies

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A Spectacular Showcase

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Cheer For Squiddly Diddly

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Nursery Rhymes and Limericks

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Guest Speaker Ella Frears

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Alice's Adventures in Animals and Games

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On The Streets With Theresa Lola

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Letters for Emily Dickinson

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Remembering Tagore

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Interviewing Shakespeare

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Titanic Start to a New Term

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Writing Adventures

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World Poetry Day: Fluffypunk and the...

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Workshopping Our Voices

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Get Involved With The Tiger

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Unheard Voices

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Soundscape Lens

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Lists and Lotteries

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Monologues

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Climbing Poetic Hills

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A Suspenseful New Year

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Strictly Come Writing

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The Great Christmas Bake Off!

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Covid Letters

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Sleeping Beauty

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Pantos and Nature Writing

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Poetry Weekend

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Pantomime Time

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Writing the 'other' - Looking...

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Writing to the Sound of Music

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Paper Boats and List Poems

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Where do we belong?

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A new term begins...

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End of year showcase!

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Food writing and memoirs

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Avoiding Clichés

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Go and open the door...

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Refugee Week 2020

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Flash fiction

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Film Reviews!

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Characterisation

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Message in a bottle

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I didn’t know I’d miss

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I am

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The Mayflower Young Writers are back!

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God’s House Tower

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Walking on Sunshine...

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Thirteen ways to eat a chocolate bar

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From Homer to Hip Hop

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Truth or Dare...

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A New World...

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Christmas festivities and an...

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The Imaginary Box

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Mirror, mirror- Reflection on self...

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The Cinderella Story Around the World

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Fractured Fairy Tales

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Review Writing with Jo Fisher

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Mayflower Journeys in Warli

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Journeying into the Unknown

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Make Your Wishes Come True!

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End-of-year Showcase

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Masterclass with March

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Lights, Camera, My Story!

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'Love' Letters

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Archives Alive

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Our Take on 'The Great Gatsby' Ballet

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Party like it's 1923!

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My Work Experience with the...

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A Bee's Knees* of a Session

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Young Writers on Tour – Behind the...

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Self-Portrait Poetry

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Awful Egyptians

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Creative Insulting

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Eco Sound Poetry

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Eco-Poetry with Susan Richardson

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Tudor House Submitted

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Typing up Tudor Tours

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Tudor House Continued

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Tudor House Drafts

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Tudor House Tours

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Winter Poems

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Dick Whittington and His Cat

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Flash Fiction Fairytales

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Fairytale Writing

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So: To Speak Festival

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Wicked Workshop (Reprise)

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Defying Prejudice

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A New Chapter

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Wicked Young Writers

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