Enrichment Programme

Creative Writing Enrichment

We are pleased to welcome Barnsley Civic and their group Barnsley Young Writers, who will be holding a special series of 12 creative writing workshops throughout term 1and 2, ending with a special celebration event at Barnsley Civic on Friday 7^th March, as part of Barnsley Book Festival.

Barnsley Young Writers is a safe space for neurodivergent young people and is part of the Hive Young Writers, an organisation with hubs around South Yorkshire and who’s alumni includes winners of Young Northern Writers Award, the BBC Young Writer of the Year, Foyle Young Poet of the Year, the New Poets Prize and Sheffield & Barnsley Poet Laureates. In the last two years, Barnsley Young Writers have published two anthologies of their own writing and have read to audiences at Sheffield Leadmill, Barnsley Civic and Sheffield Hallam Performance Lab.

Nik Perring is an award-winning screenwriter and author. Works include, Not So Perfect (Roastbooks 2010); Freaks! (The Friday Project/HarperCollins, 2012, with Caroline Smaikes); A Book of Beautiful Words (Roastbooks, 2014) and Beautiful Trees (2015). He’s also the author of the children’s book, I Met a Roman Last Night, What Did You Do? (EPS, 2006) and was commissioned to write Ghost Reader, a novella for young people by SGCT. His stories have been published all over the world.

Nik’s taught writing, in the UK and abroad for over 20 years, working with all ages and institutions (including The BBC, Arvon, and UNICEF). He was Sheffield Libraries’ Writer in Residence 2020-2022.