You're a Poet: Ways to Start Writing Poems

Sean Taylor is an award-winning children’s author, storyteller and teacher with experience of creative writing teaching in three continents. His books include Great Snake, Purple Class and the Skellington and When a Monster is Born which won the gold award in the Nestle Children’s Books Prize. He lives partly in Bristol, England and partly in Brazil where his wife is from. Hannah Shaw graduated from Brighton University with a BA in Illustration. Since then she has worked as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, but has also worked in a chocolate shop and is a visiting lecturer on an Art Foundation course. Since childhood she has had a passion for writing stories and creating characters to illustrate them. She currently lives in a tiny village in Gloucestershire with Ben the blacksmith and Ren the dog. Her books include EVIL WEASEL for Jonathan Cape.

Sam Usher is an acclaimed writer and artist who has illustrated books by Michael Morpurgo and Emma Carroll, as well as his own Adventures with Grandad series. He has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and longlisted for the Greenaway Medal. When he’s not writing or drawing, you’ll find him playing the piano, eating chocolate and trespassing.