Last week we were privileged to have author Simmone Howell with us for three days. She was here as the ISC/English Department's 2011 Lorna Sparrow Artist in Residence.She ran creative writing workshops with our Year 7 and 8's and spoke to Year 9's about how her writing is heavily influenced by pop culture. Our students really enjoyed her sessions and created some great writing in a very short space of time.Year 7 and 8 English teachers also picked up some interesting strategies to encourage the creative writing juices.
Simmone lives in Castlemaine and is a full time writer.She writes realistic teenage fiction,plays,short stories and scripts for TV.She also uses social media as a platform for her writing and you can read what she has to say about her visit to Gippsland Grammar in her latest blog post.
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