I so enjoyed helping to judge the first ever Cornishman newspaper short story competition. Good to meet all the shortlisted candidates at the Award ceremony last night at Pensans School. Congratulations to:
Eva who won the Year 5-6 category for “The story of St Marrion”,
Amelia and Charlotte, joint winners of the Year 3-4 category, for “The magic medicine” and “Maggie’s Lane”, and
Tamar who won the Years 1-2 category for “Tamar the seagull’s boatrip”.
And well done all of you who entered the competition. I never knew there were so many super-talented writers living in Cornwall!
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The Cornishman Short Story Competition
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Readers Day at Cornwall College, St Austell, Weds, July 14th
10.30-11.30 I will be talking about how I started writing teenage fiction and reading from and discussing some of my novels. See you there!
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Trereife House Literary Day
Come along to Trereife House, Penzance on Sunday 11th July for a great day out. Lots of authors, comedians, poets and performers will be there. At 4pm Liz Kessler, Ann Kelley and myself will be in conversation about writing for children. Come and ask us lots of questions!
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The Golowan Summer Festival.
Mazey Day, Penzance. Best day of Cornwall’s favourite mid-summer festival. Two weeks of music, dance, poetry, story-telling, singing and fun, culminating in a fabulous parade through the main streets. And the whole town turns out. Come and see it for yourself next year!
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Short-listed for the Queen of Teen!
Huge thanks to all those fab people who nominated me for the Queen of Teen. I made the short-list thanks to you. Now you need to go on the Queen of Teen website and VOTE FOR ME again if you want to see me as Queen of Teen. It’s dead easy. Go to:
www.queenofteen.co.uk
and vote for Chris Higgins! Do it NOW!
Thank you, you’re brilliant!
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Summertime in Torquay!
The Cakemakers!
Thank you St Cuthbert Mayne School for inviting me. Good to meet with switched-on Year 7 and the extra-special Year 10s who looked after me so well. Fantastic cake!!!! And keep writing!
Great to meet Year 5 from The Priory and Year 6 from Barton Primary on Thursday. I never realised primary students were so grown-up!
Check out your photos on the Events page.
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St Therese’s surprise visit
It was great to meet Year 6 at St Therese’s Primary School, Port Talbot on a surprise visit yesterday. Lots of interesting questions, well done guys.
Be good for Mrs. Bennett.
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Reminder: Queen of Teen
Only a few days left to nominate me for Queen of Teen. Nominations close on 14th June. If you like my books, go to www.queenofteen.co.uk and click on nominate. THANK YOU!!!
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The Lincolnshire Book Award
Thrilled to hear that “It’s a 50/50 thing” has been selected as the winner of the 12-14 category of the Lincolnshire Book Award. What an honour! Thank you to all those people who voted for it. I loved writing this book, not least because of the character of bad boy Jem, who kind of took over.
Who knows? Maybe we haven’t seen the last of him yet????
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New competition launched!
Inside a cute bag is White Musk scented shower gel, body lotion, eau de toilette and bath lilly. It can be all yours as long as you answer the question correctly!
But you better be quick … entries close 27th August 2010!