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Interpreting young people’s self-expression through characters and relationships in collaborative creative writing [PDF]

Support for Learning, 2022
White Water Writers is an intervention that offers school pupils the opportunity to collaboratively write a novel in a week. The current study uses thematic analysis to interpret the voices of young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities through the characters and relationships created in this fictional writing.
de Carvalho, Eloise, Skipper, Yvonne
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Developing creative methodologies: using lyric writing to capture young peoples’ experiences of the youth offending services during the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 2022
Purpose The COVID-19 lockdowns (2020–2021) disrupted all aspects of usual functioning of the criminal justice system, the outcomes and impact of which are largely still unknown. The pandemic has affected individuals across the wider society, this includes a negative impact on the social circumstances of children and young people involved within youth ...
Wilkinson, Dean, Price, Jayne, Crossley, Charlene   +2 more
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Editors’ Letter, Volume 1, Issue 2

Leaf Journal, 2023
Managing Editors Elen Caldecott and Lucy Cuthew introduce the articles and papers presented in this issue of 'Leaf Journal', many of which were presented at our inaugural conference.
Lucy Cuthew, Elen Caldecott
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Don’t Look Back In Anger: The Mythic World-building of Melinda Salisbury’s Her Dark Wings

Leaf Journal, 2023
Through a close reading of Her Dark Wings by Melinda Salisbury and Ash Bond’s own work-in-progress this article examines the use of mythology as a megatext.
Ash Bond
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On Writing for Young People Conference 2023, Keynote Speech

Leaf Journal, 2023
A full transcript of Prof Emerita Julia Green’s keynote speech at the Leaf Journal’s ‘On Writing Conference 2023’. Julia sets out the origins of the discipline of Creative Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University and beyond.
Julia Green
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How to Build a Patriarchy: Conceptualising Themes and Creating Normalised Belief Systems in Young Adult Feminist Dystopias

Leaf Journal, 2023
In recent years, Young Adult (YA) fiction has – following its speculative adult counterparts – seen an influx of feminist dystopias. With this increase, comes a vast assortment of patriarchal systems created to coerce and control young female ...
Sophie Clarke
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Reimagining “Beauty”: Young Adult Fairytale Retellings in Perpetuation of & Resistance to Patriarchy

Leaf Journal, 2023
In recent years, Young Adult (YA) fiction has – following its speculative adult counterparts – seen an influx of feminist dystopias. With this increase, comes a vast assortment of patriarchal systems created to coerce and control young female ...
Zoe Marriott
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Travelling Through Time on My Quest to be a Children’s Author

Leaf Journal, 2023
In her quest to become a published children’s author, Charlotte Teeple-Salas explores why she is compelled to write time-slip stories, and whether their appeal in the publishing industry is a passing trend, cyclical or enduring.
Charlotte Teeple-Salas
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Talking Tigers: Concepts of Representational Ethics Applied to Non-Human Characters in Writing Children’s Fiction

Leaf Journal, 2023
This is a paper to open discussion about the representation of animals in children’s fiction. Arguing that the destruction of animal habitats and the reduction of non-human species intersect with colonial practice, the author looks at the tradition of ...
Mimi Thebo
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The Niagara Effect: Reimagining Emotional Intensity in Young Adult Writing

Leaf Journal, 2023
Contemporary Young Adult (YA) fiction often aims to capture and generate “emotional intensity,” which is held to be an inherent feature of the teenage experience.
Noah Weisz
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