With the spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and sometimes clunky inadequate prose why do I blog? After all there’s no editor offering improving conversations about developing style, no publisher volunteering Read more [...]
The adoptive mother describes the child whom they'd taken some years earlier from Ethiopia as having grown into a person with a wild look in her eyes. It was like seeing an exorcist. This is immediately Read more [...]
Every Ethiopian, Eritrean, American and European who has any interest in race, identity, loss, storytelling, psychology, childhood, religion, nationhood, documentary making, or intercontinental Read more [...]
Every child in care (above 13) and leaving care should have their own facebook page. Anonymising children in the care system is practised more often than not to protect the institution. On that Read more [...]
I know alot of people but Christmas can be difficult and remains family-less. I say this because The Tope Project is a brilliant idea for care-leavers in the UK. It’s a volunteer project aiming Read more [...]
“Foster Kid Is Poetry Champ” reads the Sun Newspaper this morning. Another child from The Superhero Project has won a national award. The first was a boy called Robert Marston who won the Foyles Read more [...]
The Superhero Project launched by Michael Rosen this summer is not a sentimental notion. Of the ten attendants to The Superhero Workshops two have been shortlisted in national writing competitions: Read more [...]