Author Virginia Clay visits Liverpool College

Y7 and Y8 Wilton Scholars were given a masterclass in Creative Writing on Tuesday with accomplished author Virginia Clay. Virgina, author of ‘Warrior Boy’, specialises in writing stories from other cultures. In 2010, Virgina moved from the Lake District to Kenya. Although trained as an actor and singer, she retrained to become a teacher in 2012 and began teaching in Nairobi. It was using her experience of life in Kenya that formed the basis of her first book. Warrior Boy is a children’s novel about London schoolboy Ben, who travels to Kenya to meet his Maasai family for the first time but discovers more about himself than he ever imagined possible.

Using extracts of her book, Virginia asked pupils to focus upon the inner conflicts within their characters, establishing the goals and the individual flaws that define people as individuals. The students were taught how to create, develop and exploit these internal conflicts to enhance their own future story writing.

Mrs Doran

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