Dr Elisa Webb

Biography

Put the fun back into reading and writing with children's author Elisa Webb

Creative writing and reading workshops for schools: from Year 4 to Year 13 and adults too

Author, teacher, parent and former Head of Department at Grey Coat Hospital School Elisa Webb has great skill and experience at delivering tailor-made bespoke workshops to develop students' love of reading and writing. These workshops focus on key writing skills: description, dialogue, forward action and emotion; as well as hitting key OFSTED criteria. Thus, all students are fully engaged in a flow activity applying new skills to a novel situation. Learning more, knowing more and doing more. She also delivers Author Q & As, assemblies and adult workshops.

Elisa Webb created Book Explorers Tours at Waterstones Kingston to encourage inner-city students to learn how to navigate bookstores to better access the wonderful world of literature. She is an Imaginative Writing Southern Gothic practice-based PhD from Kingston University. Darkling Park, her debut novel is a children's adventure set in a South London graveyard. Her second novel Three Kids and a Dead Dog is set in Georgia, U.S.A. She has had over 20 short stories published alongside several articles. 

An absolutely excellent book, hard to put down! Despite being a children's book it is suitable for all ages with some nuggets of comedy for adults. It's a tale of adventure, humour and friendship and I would truly recommend it to anyone to read. Darkling Park Amazon review.

Children, teachers and TAs have come up to me this afternoon to tell me how impressed they were with your workshop. Staff said the children were hanging off your every word! The children are really excited to read your book! I popped my head into Year 5 in the late afternoon and I could feel a real buzz of excitement with the children and the staff! I think you really inspired children today. Thank you so much! We would love to have you back next year. Workshop review.

£7.00 per head for a workshop or two free workshops for schools that purchase a class set of Darkling Park (20 plus copies at 8.99 each). Patrician Press delivers free of charge, on the day of the workshop. ISBN 9780993494536 Do call to discuss further details, discounts and adult bookings. Some events are free. I also undertake writing, editing work and tuition.