Young writers take centre stage

YOUNG writers from nine East Sussex secondary schools have been taking part in an award winning project.

By The Newsroom

Published 20th Mar 2007, 13:43 BST

Updated 7th Jun 2018, 22:35 BST

Their work will be launched on Thursday.

More than 800 pupils aged 11 to 16 have been involved in The Write Stuff - a project set up by the Lewes-based Asham Literary Endowment Trust and funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the Foyle Foundation, East Sussex County Council and the Arts Council.

Top writers of teenage fiction, Mal Peet, Nicky Singer and Anne Cassidy, led a series of workshops in schools and libraries across the county.

Out of this around 200 young people were mentored on line by the writers, and a selection of the stories produced were published in the anthology.

The remaining stories can be viewed on The Write Stuff website www.

write-stuff.org.

More details in the Sussex Express on Friday.