Jan Mark has twice won the Carnegie Medal for her children’s fiction as well as many other awards. A former Signal Poetry Prize judge and teacher, she now devotes much of her time to running writing workshops for students and teachers and reviewing children’s books.

Writing Together is a partnership of literature organisations and government bodies, all working with the shared aim of bringing writers into schools. Believing that working with a writer is a unique way for children and young people to understand the power of the written word and the excitement of creative composition, Writing Together want every school to have a regular programme of writers in school and all pupils to work with a writer at least once in each key stage.

Jan Mark is one of the Hodder Literature writers who is taking part in the Writing Together project.

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