Young writers

Returning to my occasional theme of young writers, we run an open mic for writers in our home town of Darlington (next one Thursday March 26, Voodoo Café, 7pm)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 16-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