On Writing for Young People Conference 2023, Keynote Speech

Prof Emerita Julia Green sets out the origins of the discipline of Creative Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University and beyond.

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https://doi.org/10.58091/94FJ-JA96

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Julia Green, Keynote, Writing for Young People

Abstract

A full transcript of Prof Emerita Julia Green’s keynote speech at the Leaf Journal’s ‘On Writing Conference 2023’. Julia sets out the origins of the discipline of Creative Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University and beyond. She discusses the early challenges and successes. She explores her own work and writing while in academia. Finally, she offers some hopes for the future of writing for young people.

 

Author Biography

  • Julia Green

    Prof Emeritus Julia Green is the author of more than twenty novels and stories for children and young adults. She writes about family and friendship, the natural world, life and death, love and loss, joy and adventure. Her recent publications include Carnegie-nominated The House of Light, The Children of Swallow Fell (Oxford University Press), and The Boy Who Sailed the World (David Fickling Books). Ettie and the Midnight Pool will be published by David Fickling Books in June 2024.

     

    Julia has a BA in English & American Literature (University of Kent), an M. Phil in English Studies 1798 – 1880 (University of Oxford) and a PhD in Creative Writing (Bath Spa University). She has worked as a publicity assistant for a publisher, a library assistant, an English teacher, and lectured in Further, Community and Higher Education settings. She co-created the MA Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University and in 2004 became its first Course Director, a role she held until 2019. In 2017 she became the first Professor in Writing for Young People in the UK.

     

    Julia is Emeritus Professor of Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University. She lives on the North-East coast.

     

     

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Published

15.12.2023

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2023): Leaf Journal: On Writing for Young People

Section

Conference Proceedings

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