This clean & simple new guide from Accolade tackles each of the individual elements of creative writing in turn, demonstrating how - once we have mastered the core skills - creative writing is not only an academic pursuit we can master, but something genuinely fun and rewarding.

Combining exemplar material with thought-provoking activities, this guide is geared towards helping KS2 students build the skills that'll dazzle teachers and examiners alike.

Topics covers include:

• Why do we write?
• Looking with words
• Hearing Things
• Touch, Taste, and Smell
• The Element of Surprise
• Beginnings
• Character Building
• Ending vs Climax
• Conversations
• Tone and Register
• Sentences
• Writing Poems

Hugh Foley is a widely published poet who has taught English at Oxford University, Liverpool University, and Queen Mary University, London. The guide is underpinned by his unique approach towards creative writing: namely, the blending of clarity, complexity and imagination!