“They have got so involved and have just loved having her here. “This was the first year we have done this but we hope to run it again as it has been so successful. Trustee of the festival and organiser of the workshop Jenny Lockwood said: “For the competition, Emily wrote the first paragraph and then children followed on from there. Yesterday, she held a workshop at Huddersfield Town Hall and children from Grange Moor Juniors, Birkby Juniors, Newsome, Spring Grove, Lindley, Wooldale, Brockholes and Queen Elizabeth Grammar School came along.Įmily, who is currently writing her third book, talked them through how to construct a good story, with a strong plot and characters.

“ I have agonised over choosing the winner.” “I was looking for a good story that was going to stick with me and I definitely found some.

“What I was looking for was not perfect spelling or good handwriting. “As this was the first year, we only expected to get about a dozen entries and instead we had 111.

“I was talking to the organisers and we discovered there was no story competition and so we came up with this idea. She said: “Last year in the spoken reading competition, my book was chosen, which was lovely. THE room was silent as children from across Huddersfield clung to every word uttered by author Emily Diamand.įor the first time, a reading and writing category has been added to the Mrs Sunderland Festival which culminated in a workshop from the award-winning children’s author.Īnd with the new class attracting more than 100 entries, Emily praised Huddersfield’s enthusiasm for getting children writing.

Ways to See a Ghost by Emily Diamand