Returning to my recent theme of young writers, we run an open mic for writers in our home town of Darlington and several of the writers who read are teenagers.
They remind me of me at that age, writing feverishly, honing their craft, making mistakes and learning from them.
I know a lot of youngsters who write (my 15-year-old daughter is part of a circle of them and I take creative writing sessions in schools) and in an age when exam pressures threaten to crowd out young people’s creativity, it’s a joy to see.
John Dean
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