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LIT BITS: Enter the Story Hive and Let Your Creativity Fly
February 15 @ 10:00 AM
Family writing workshop with Sita Bramachari
When Laila in Tender Earth opens her artist grandmother’s banner bag, it releases a powerful charge to paint, draw and write down the things she needs to express about the world. The young people in Sita’s books dream and make wishes to make the planet a better place to grow up in.
Sita Brahmachari invites you to enter the story hive of creativity in Where The River Runs Gold. Using magical storytelling objects from her novels as inspiration, Sita invites families to gather around an art and writing hearth to experience the dreaming spaces from which stories grow.
Family event – Sita’s stories speak to the child in all of us and are for sharing across the generations. All family members are welcome in the story hive of creativity!
Sita Brahmachari is an internationally award winning novelist of Children’s and YA novels, plays, poems, animation and short stories. Her work is rooted in bringing communities and generations together and has been celebrated for its ability to grow and spread empathy. Sita is also a Shropshire Lass as she went to secondary school in Shropshire, a time when it was beyond her wildest dreams to become an author.
Sita’s debut novel Artichoke Hearts won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and is currently being adapted for a stage production. Where The River Runs Gold was Waterstones Book of the Month. When Secrets Set Sail was Blackwells book of the Month. Tender Earth was honoured by the International Board of Books for Young People. Worry Angels was shortlisted for The Jhalak Prize. Sita’s YA novel When Shadows Fall was shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal. She was Book Trust Writer in Residence and has been Writer in Residence at Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants since 2012. Sita is currently a Royal Literary Fellow at The British Library.
