Junior & Young Writers Week 10: SHOWCASE!!!!!!!

Summer Celebration: End of Term, 2026

Junior & Young Writers Week 9: Cryptids

Teletubbys and Poetry

Engaging your Reader from the Very First Line

Acts of Kindness

Junior & Young Writers Week 7: Science Fiction

Not so Super Heroes

Junior & Young Writers Week 6: Food for Thought

Junior & Young Writers Week 5: Return of the Cupcake

Portal: Two Approaches to Liminal Spaces and Doorways

Junior & Young Writers Week 4: The Magic of Stories - Haunted Edition

There's been a murder!

Junior & Young Writers Week 3: Show, Don’t Tell

There’s been a murder,

Strange New Worlds

Oceanic and Sonnety

Junior & Young Writers Week 2: The Magic of Stories

Junior & Young Writers Week 1: Dreams

Myths and Legends

Clubhouse

Transcript

IN A JAM

This blurred life - after Alison Luterman

The Cracks Are Showing

Junior & Young Writers Week 10: Showcase

Past, present and future

The Poem No One Will Ever See

Junior & Young Writers Week 9: Eldritch Horror

Easter

Postcards!

Junior & Young Writers Week 8: Magpies

Colour

Young & Junior Writers Week 7: Gold, Gold & Gold

Writing Murder Mysteries: Red Herrings

Pictures as Inspiration

Junior & Young Writers Week 6: Mythical Golden Creatures

Character

Valentine’s Day Special

Junior & Young Writers Week 5: Stories of Gold

Story Structure

The Sound of Silence

Junior & Young Writers Week 4: Short Stories

Character Buffet

Junior & Young Writers Week 3: Short Stories

Autofiction

Adventure

PITCHALICIOUS

Junior & Young Writers Week 2: Poetry Explorers

Junior & Young Writer Week 1: Tall Tree Tales

Beginnings

What If?

Happy New Year!

Junior & Young Writers Week 5: Christmas Zines

What If?

Junior & Young Writers Week 4: Korean Urban Legends

Writing Murder Mysteries

Play Creators

Junior & Young Writers Week 3: Return From The Magical World

Junior & Young Writers Week 2: African Mythology

He Was No Longer There

Problems, Problems, Problems...

Scripts

Junior & Young Writers Week 1: Alien Encounters

Fireworks

Junior & Young Writers: Week 5 - Play on Words Pt. 2

Junior & Young Writers: Week 4 - Play on Words Pt. 1

October Focus: Broken Expectations

Junior and Young Writers: Week 6 - SHOWCASE DAY!

Lasts

Finding Freedom

Junior and Young Writers: Week 4 - Play on Words

Refining the Script

Junior and Young Writers: Week 3 - Character Building

Scriptwriting

Junior & Young Writers: Week 3 - Character Building

Junior & Young Writers: Week 2 - Comic Book Writing

Storyboard

Junior & Young Writers: Week 1 - Dialogue

Character

Play Creators

Junior & Young Writers: Week 11 - Showcase Week (& CAKE)

Showtime!

Junior & Young Writers: Week 10 - Script Writing

Firsts and lasts (nearly)

Junior & Young Writers: Week 9 - New Forest - Smugglers Tales

All-sorts and Spirals

Junior & Young Writers: Week 8 - Lost Civilisations

Showcase Prep

Junior & Young Writers: Week 7 - Shape-Shifting Stories - New Forest Pixies and Witches

More Competitions

Like A Glove

Junior & Young Writers: Week 6 - New Forest: Ghost Stories

Names

Junior & Young Writers: Week 4 - Sci-Fi: Other World Forests

Room 101

Junior & Young Writers: Week 3 - Fairytale Fictions

Codebreakers

Happiness

Junior & Young Writers: Week 2 - Alien Invasion (sci-fi)

May Day

Junior & Young Writers: Week 1 - Folklore - New Forest Folk Tales

Sparkles

Junior & Young Writers: Week 11 - end of term showcase [build a bard workshop]

Rehearsing

Junior & Young Writers: Week 10 - Greek Theatre - chorus stories

Stones

Junior & Young Writers: Week 9 - Greek Origin Stories - Spring

Frankenstory

Frankenstory

Junior & Young Writers: Week 7 - Greek Hero Stories [the 12 labours of Hercules]

Aliens and Austen

Junior & Young Writers: Week 6 - Create and Convince [persuasive writing]

Invisible Friend

Junior & Young Writers: Week 5 - Greek Mythology [from Perseus to Percy Jackson]

Competitions

Junior & Young Writers: Week 4 - Making Zines

Arguments

Inhabitants: Character Creation

Junior & Young Writers: Week 3 - Mini Zines

Plot

Place and Setting

Junior & Young Writers: Week 2 - Wintering & Migration

Memory

We're Building A Town!

Mood

Junior & Young Writers: Week 1 - Wintering & Hibernation

Junior & Young Writers: Week 14 [Wild Words] - End of Term Showcase & Christmas Crackers

Junior & Young Writers: Week 13 [Wild Words] - Editing & Performance Skills {The Body Writes}

It's Christmas!

Festive Scripts

Junior & Young Writers: Week 12 [Wild Words] - Stuff & Things

Tundra Tales

Writing the Winter

Junior & Young Writers: Week 11 [Wild Words] - World Building 2

Winter Wonderland

Utopia/Dystopia

Junior & Young Writers: Week 10 [Wild Words] - World Building

Snow Storm

Dreamcatchers

Junior & Young Writers: Week 9 [Wild Words] - Mystery & Choose Your Own Adventure

A Winter's Tale

Junior & Young Writers: Week 8 [Wild Words] - Spooky Sequels & Potion Poems

Junior & Young Writers: Week 7 [Wild Words] - Spooky Stories

Ghost Stories

Junior & Young Writers: Week 6 [Wild Words] - Awesome Autumn

Taste and Smell

NIGHTMARE POEMS

Junior & Young Writers: Week 5 [Wild Words] - Mythologies

Empathy

Dreams in Plays

Junior & Young Writers: Week 4 [Wild Words] - Animals & Birds

Sound

Dream Poetry

Junior & Young Writers: Week 3 [Wild Words] - Conflict Buffet

Sight

What Characters Want

Junior & Young Writers: Week 2 [Wild Words] – Tree Tales

Touch

Dreams

Junior & Young Writers: Week 1 [Wild Words] – introductions & creating characters

Endings

Characters

Senses

Junior & Young Writers – Week 10 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Final Showcase

Theatre

Junior & Young Writers – Week 9 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Editing & Performance Tips

Treasure

Happy Summer Solstice!

Junior & Young Writers – Week 8 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Cuteness

Boxes

Time goes on by Tavinder Kaur New

Junior & Young Writers – Week 7 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Natural Solutions

Questions and Character

two draft love poem

Junior & Young Writers – Week 6 (Writers’ Inspiration) – The Language of Fruit and Veg

The Future

Junior & Young Writers – Week 5 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Adventures In Space

Nature

Tinklebobs and Bedraggled Angles

Junior & Young Writers – Week 4 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Our Environment

Eurovision Writing!

Junior & Young Writers – Week 3 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Home

Netherwhere

Junior & Young Writers – Week 2 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Dreams

Godot

Junior & Young Writers – Week 1 (Writers’ Inspiration) – Injustice/Unfairness

Spring

Young Writers - Week 10 (The Art of Writing) – Final Week Showcase

Junior Writers - Week 10 (The Art of Writing) – Final Week Showcase

Rhyming and Rhythm

Young Writers – Week 9 (The Art of Writing) – Choose Your Own Adventure

Junior Writers – Week 9 (The Art of Writing) – Choose Your Own Adventure

Young Writers – Week 8 (The Art of Writing) – Sequel Stories

Junior Writers – Week 8 (The Art of Writing) – Sequel Stories

Killing Your Darlings

Young Writers – Week 7 (The Art of Writing) – Picture Prompts

Junior Writers – Week 7 (The Art of Writing) – Picture Prompts

Young Writers - Week 6 (The Art of Writing) - Script-writing & Dialogue

Junior Writers - Week 6 (The Art of Writing) - Script-writing & Dialogue

Laundry

Junior Writers – Week 5 (The Art of Writing) – Poetry

Young Writers - Week 5 (The Art of Writing) - Poetry Potions

Stuck in a Lift

Rafts and Dreams

Edward The Martyr - A Competition!

Character and Performance

Young Writers - Week 4 (The Art of Writing) - Non-Fiction

Junior Writers - Week 4 (The Art of Writing) - Non-Fiction

Under the Sea and Spilt Water

Mood Boards and Postcards from Space

Young Writers - Week 3 (The Art of Writing) - PLOT

Junior Writers - Week 3 (The Art of Writing) - PLOT

Discovery

Moomin Stories and Hollywood Pitches

Young Writers - Week 2 (The Art of Writing) - Genre & Setting

Junior Writers - Week 2 (The Art of Writing) - Genre & Setting

Prompts, Dialogues, and Cliché

Titles, blurbs and openings

Bodies of Water

Quentin Blake Display

Young Writers - Week 1 (The Art of Writing) - Character

Junior Writers - Week 1 (The Art of Writing) - Character

A History of Water

Young Writers - Week 6 - Writing Winter

Junior Writers - Week 6 - Writing Winter

Haiku

Season Greetings

Young Writers - week 4 - Nature Writing [animals & wildlife]

Junior Writers - week 4 - Nature Writing [animals & wildlife]

The Christmas Advert

Ali Sparkes

Young Writers - week 3 - Nature Writing [trees/plants/flowers]

Junior Writers - week 3 - Nature Writing [trees/plants/flowers]

Young Writers - week 2 - 'fractured fairy tales'

Junior Writers - week 2 - 'fractured fairy tales'

Space Oddity

Our Competition Winners!

Newspapers

Young Writers - week 1 - 'from deep inside a forest'

Junior Writers - week 1 - 'from deep inside a forest'

Spooky Screenplays

photographs

Short Fiction and Micro Fiction

Space in Poetry

Autumn inspiration

I Need Some Space

National Poetry Day

X

Arts by the Sea

Acrostic Poetry and Flash Fiction

Story Cubes & Cranborne Chase Competition

Think not that they are gone

Values

Prompts and Pitches

STARS

THE PLANETS

Competitions and Monologues

interconnectedness

WELCOME BACK!

Writing for Wellbeing

Reminiscence

Summer Term Showcase - That's A Wrap

A Journey Home

The 20th Of April

Enchanted Picnic and Showcase 2023

Time - 4.48 Psychosis

Competition, Showcase Preparations and Spinning The Wheel

What is Pink?

Time Travel

Passing the baton

The Nature Session

A Mysterious Visitor

Short Stories & Word Association

Creating Communities through Writing

Home - Round 2

Timing

Dolls House

Exploring home – a place, person, house

Time Is Like...

Stories From Our Streets at the Abbeyfield Wessex Society Reminiscence Session at Poole Library

Time

What Do You Really Mean? Writing Dialogue for Scripts

Food

Character Building & Murder Mysteries

Going inside – from a spark to a story

Maybe I Can Be Invisible After All... Monologues

What Lives Behind That Door?

All that is precious

Creative Writing: Fun Facts, Diverse Voices and Different Perspectives

Stories From Our Streets at Bournemouth Writing Festival

Sandwich Shop Blog - On a Roll!

The Tree

Ode To Ekphrastic Corpse!

Writing Competition - Stories From Our Streets

Bake Off!

Stories From Our Streets Community Activity Pack

Thinking in-quiet, after the fire

MOSS - A Workshop

Horror Writing

Castlepoint Library

Ekphrastic Jukebox - Writing to Music

Breaking News!!!

WIZARD CLAN

Young writers exercise their creative power

The Mousetrap - Mayflower Young and Junior Writers Investigate Mystery!

Help Yourself: Prompt Sharing and Devising

Stories From Our Streets at Vita Nova

Community writing workshops in Christchurch library

All that I want from this day

Pets & Extending Lore

Superpowers, Superwriters!

Georgia and The Iceberg and Man, The Mad Magician

Characterful Seasons

Cartoon Pitches and Tim Crouch

What Characters Want...

Comedy Writing

Turning the Human to Creature

Who Am I?

A Labyrinth Adventure and Hollywood Pitches

BLASTING OFF TO SPACE AND PORTRAITS

End of Year Update: Stories From Our Streets

Research Spotlight: Reflections on the CWCW Writers’ Workshop

Sharing Our Worlds

Campfire Showcase

Exisiting in an Apocalypse

Preparing for Showcase

Acceptance

Lightbulb Moments

THIS IS NOT A WORKSHOP THIS IS AN APOCALYPSE! / Re-writing Ghost Stories

Origin Stories

Pokemon Cards and Spooky Plays

Delicate Debrief/ The Other Mother

What Is In A Name?

Stories From Our Streets Launch!

Interview: In Conversation with Dr Victoria Leslie

Expanding Islands

The Missing Farmer/ Blackout Poetry & DADA

Microworld Animal Crossings

Using props to create characters/ working as a writing room

Stories of the Dust and Character Questions

Enzariam Island Continued & The Death of Shakespeare

We let Our Talents Glisten

Sounds of Silence

Creating Maps and Re-Writing our Favourite Stories

A Is For...

Research Spotlight: Ocean Narratives Workshop Event

Introducing the team

Descriptive Dreamings and Character Creating!

Holiday Homes and Hollywood Pitches

Welcome Junior Writers! - Monster Food Poems and the Origin of Names

Next Steps for Creative Writing Against Coastal Waste

Conversing Along our Coastline Part 3: Sea Stories

Conversing Along our Coastline Part 2: Cultural Communities, Marine Values

Conversing Along our Coastline Part 1: Narrative Warnings

Research Spotlight – ‘Blue Heritage: The Role of Ocean Art and Culture in Ocean Science and Management’

Coasts, Communities and Charismatic Species: Publicising Coastal Sustainability Projects in the Arts and Humanities – Part 2

Beaches, Buzzwords and Branding: Publicising Coastal Sustainability Projects in the Arts and Humanities (Part 1)

The Universe and Everything...

Introducing ‘Surelines and D-rift: Creative Writing Against Coastal Waste’

Pet Prime Ministers

Percy Shelley and Re-Writing The Past

Poetic Perseus

Perseus Art Gallery Trip

Far Away - Script Writing

Rocket Man

Hollywood Pitches

A Poem of Birds and Blood

Happy Platinum Jubilee!

DADA! DADA! DADA!

Creation Myths

There's A Game In The Garden

The lost works of Pearl

Cake and Parties

Angel Exist Theatre and creating characters

Verbatim, Jeffery Bazos and The Queen!

A Flash Of Inspiration

The Sensory Process of Writing

World Poetry Day

ArtfulScribe Spoken Word Weekender Community Showcase

Short Stories and Triffids Reviews

Postcards & Self-Portraits

A Visit from a Penguin

Myself as... A Collaborative Poem

A Flock of Words

Flash Fiction

Blaga Burogu Ibhulogi

character descriptions in theatre writing

What is love?

A Diary of Ice and Fire

Telepathy and Writing for stage 15th and 22nd Jan

Just Waiting

Just A Minute, I’m Popping to the Shops

Exhibition of Dreams

World War Scone

Hands On Humanity 2021

Collective Spirals and Misrememberings - MAST Collective Blog #7

Acrostic Dreams

A Gallery Rising

Fantastically Great Women Review

The Skit: Detonation & Surf! - MAST Collective Blog #6

Firework Crisis

Lens Grinding - MAST Collective Blog #5

Notes on Intention for MAST Collective - Year 3 - Facilitation Focus

Lists, lists and more lists

Dreams in The News

Earthquakes & Dominoes - MAST Collective Blog #4

Very Big and Very Loud

Discover Sophia Thakur

Receptionists & Inky Voids - MAST Collective Blog #3

I am... Great Women

House Warming Party (The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known) - MAST Collective Blog #2

Fun Palace Loveliness

City Planning - MAST Collective Blog #1

Dreamcatchers Personified

Timeless Selfies

Zoom Sessions & Rotational Generative Sessions / Workshop Sessions – Facilitation Focus

Dreams and Opera!

A Spectacular Showcase

Cheer For Squiddly Diddly

Nursery Rhymes and Limericks

THE CURSE OF FUNCTION ROOM 4...and other Lighthouse adventures

Guest Speaker Ella Frears

An Ode to the first week back in the Lighthouse!

Alice's Adventures in Animals and Games

On The Streets With Theresa Lola

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

LIGHTHOUSES, HOPE AND METAPHORS

Letters for Emily Dickinson

SEAS AND STORMS

Remembering Tagore

LIGHTHOUSE POETRY

Interviewing Shakespeare

LIGHTHOUSE

Titanic Start to a New Term

FINAL TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURE

Writing Adventures

ENDINGS

World Poetry Day: Fluffypunk and the Invisible Women

On Being a Writer: A Conversation by Beth Phillips & Sam Morton

PAST AND FUTURE ME

Workshopping Our Voices

TIME TRAVEL SCRIPTS

Get Involved With The Tiger

Deer Heart by Rebecca Legg

BLOG TO THE FUTURE!

Unheard Voices

RAPUNZELish by H L Truslove

Cinderella and The Cowboys by Gina Edney

Soundscape Lens

Lists and Lotteries

(not so) HORRIBLE HISTORIES

Bird Seed by Beth McKeeman

Monologues

ON TIME - POETRY AND METAPHOR

TRAVELLING IN TIME

Climbing Poetic Hills

Assignment by Lawrence Nicholas

Genre Roulette, the New Board Game Everyone's Playing!

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO TIME TRAVEL

A Suspenseful New Year

the toad & i by H L Truslove

Strictly Come Writing

The Great Christmas Bake Off!

Covid Letters

Sleeping Beauty

Pantos and Nature Writing

Poetry Weekend

Pantomime Time

Writing the 'other' - Looking through the lens of the ghost.

The Shark, the Rind, the Slug Ooze and the Stag's Leap

Writing to the Sound of Music

Writing Like a Metroidvania

Paper Boats and List Poems

Carving a Week Out of the Alphabet

Where do we belong?

A new term begins...

It Is What It Is

Resilience

END OF YEAR BAKE OFF!

End of year showcase!

FIVE MINUTE DRAMAS

Food writing and memoirs

FLASH FICTION

Avoiding Clichés

Looking to the Stars / Watching the Clouds Part

UGLY NATURE POETRY

Go and open the door...

Perspectives

Refugee Week 2020

Birds with Jack Thacker

Flash fiction

Alice In Wonderland and Colours

Film Reviews!

THE FUTURE WE WANT

Characterisation

WINDOWS

Message in a bottle

Ideas for a Sign

Monologues

I didn’t know I’d miss

Sad Shower in New York and the Cheeky Little Astronomer

DEAR FUTURE ME

Objects with voices

I am

From Letters to Lockdown

Head, Heart

Bake Off - Short Stories Edition

The Mayflower Young Writers are back!

Boxes On A Screen

CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS

EASTER EGGS

FAIRYTALE SCRIPTS AND LOCKDOWN DIALOGUES (ONLINE)

ODES AND PRAISE SONGS (ONLINE WORKSHOP)

Online Workshop

Arts Awards Skill Share

ENEMIES AND OPENING SCENES

God’s House Tower

Walking on Sunshine...

The Great British Write Off

Safety, Sand dunes and Senses

The Heart at Twenty-Four Days / A Tongue Hanging Out

Thirteen ways to eat a chocolate bar

Jane Eyre Reflection - Arts Awards Part B

Frozen Lakes and 300,000 Years of Oral Tradition

From Homer to Hip Hop

Jane Eyre and the gothic

What Colour was Your Day?

Truth or Dare...

Characters In Love

Write Yourself Well?

A New World...

Lost Characters!

New Year, New Characters!

Christmas fun!

Re-making Panto and Calling The Shots!

Christmas festivities and an exciting new project!

Marshmallow-Ice and Under Milk Wood

The Imaginary Box

Jack and the beanstalk - retold!

Mirror, mirror- Reflection on self image

The Cinderella Story Around the World

A, B, and C - Bonfire Night Edition

Fractured Fairy Tales

War Poems

Murder in the classroom!

Review Writing with Jo Fisher

Roundabout Reviews and The Funny Award!

Mayflower Journeys in Warli

Journeying into the Unknown

Make Your Wishes Come True!

Roundabout!

Autumn Poems

Start Of The Year - Autumn!

End-of-year Showcase

Masterclass with March

Display Work and A Message In A Bottle!

Short Stories

Lights, Camera, My Story!

A Brief Introduction to Spoken Word

Monologues

'Love' Letters

Let's Make A Protest!

Archives Alive

Insects!

The Lion, The Witch, and... the moon?

Our Take on 'The Great Gatsby' Ballet

Party like it's 1923!

My Work Experience with the Mayflower Young Writers

Curses, Spells, and Charms - Fantasy Poetry

A Bee's Knees* of a Session

Fantasy Worlds

Young Writers on Tour – Behind the Scenes at the Mayflower

Self-Portrait Poetry

Genre Tropes and Cliches

Poetry

Awful Egyptians

Creative Insulting

Scriptwriting

Mystery Box

Eco Sound Poetry

New beginnings

Eco-Poetry with Susan Richardson

Lighthouse Young Writers

Tudor House Submitted

Typing up Tudor Tours

Tudor House Continued

Tudor House Drafts

Tudor House Tours

Winter Poems

Dick Whittington and His Cat

Flash Fiction Fairytales

Fairytale Writing

So: To Speak Festival

Wicked Workshop (Reprise)

Defying Prejudice

A New Chapter

Wicked Young Writers

Writing the Great Outdoors