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Children's fiction can be affectionate, social, mythic or simply playful. This course will focus on breaking new ground rather than work in progress. It will be a shared experience of rapid exercises which celebrate language and the imagination. It will also examine how to tell, retell and use motifs from traditional tale.

Kevin Crossley-Holland is a prize-winning children's writer and poet. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the position of Children's Laureate in the UK. He won the Carnegie Medal for his novel Storm and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award for The Seeing Stone, the first part of his Arthur trilogy which has been translated into 24 languages. His recent books include The Hidden Roads: A Memoir of Childhood, and Waterslain Angels, a novel for children. He taught in Minnesota for seven years and now lives in East Anglia.