Charlie Lea, author & creative director

Author and creative director of Read Now Write Now a literary arts organisation helping more people into reading and writing

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

This is what our creative writing workshops are about - lots of happy faces seeing their stories on climate change published into an anthology. #climatechampions @ace_thenorth

[Holy Spirit Catholic Primary @HolySpiritWA9]

#Year6 were excited to see their work published for Climate Change. We are so proud of you all! #climatechampions 🌳🚗🌍

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

What a super Saturday of Storytelling at Liverpool Library at our Climate Champions Celebration where our climate champions read out their stories in front of Ian Byrne MP and a very appreciative audience. Well done all, you were amazing & truly inspirational #climatechampions

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

We are so proud of our fantastic climate champions who are now confirmed authors! Over the next 2 weeks we will be sharing their work online and, to start us off, here is Evelyn's story The Beginning of the Change. We do hope you like it.
#climatechampions
https://t.co/eUHCbjz7aA

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

As our new authors finish off writing their stories, here is a new post in our Made in Wirral blog, all about the most important part of any story, characters.
https://t.co/CyjTH2iOEV
#madeinwirral #creativewritingworkshops #creativewriting

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

Our Made in Wirral creative writing and arts project for adult beginners is in full swing and our new authors are busy writing their stories. In this post we show you how to set scenes for your stories.
#creativewriting #settingscenes
https://t.co/kQhNSOa0OX

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

What an honour and fantastic experience for our young climate champions at Newton le Willows Library to meet a real life climate champion - Laura who set up the Hope for the Future charity when she was a teenager.
#climatechampions #creativewritingworkshops

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

Over the last few weeks we have been running a creative writing and arts project called Made in Wirral with Wirral Libraries
Here's the first post from our dedicated blog about the project.
https://t.co/wy5GBXtHVF

[Natalie Denny @Natalie_Denny_]

Had a lovely two days on the Climate Champions Programme at @WhitefieldPS with the very talented writers in Year 5! Thanks for having me, and well done on your brilliant stories! Keisha would be proud!🙌🏿🐝🌳 @ReadNowWriteNow #KeishaJonesIsAForceOfNature #JoinTheBeeSquad

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

A lovely first day of #climatechampions workshops @WestKirbySchool looking at what we can do to tackle climate change with Y5 & Y6 children. They're already doing things with their superb Let's Go Plastic Free mural and, as an added treat, the school runs a brilliant bakery too!

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

Another super Saturday of storytelling by the new authors from our Write Up North creative writing project, this time at Chorley Library. Well done everyone! Lancashire Libraries #writeupnorth
@lancslibraries

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

A show of hands about climate change at Spellow Library led by the brilliant Natalie Denny who helped everyone write stories with inspiration from her book, Keisha Jones is a Force of Nature.
For more info on our #ClimateChampions free courses go to https://t.co/SuVleS22Au

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

What a lovely Saturday it was listening to the stories read out by lots of newly published authors as part of our Write Up North writing project at Blackburn Central Library and Blackpool Central Library. #writeupnorth

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

Look at the size of the our new anthology of short stories following on from our Write Up North writing course. 52 stories by 52 new authors - a record for one of our projects.
These will soon be added to library catalogues for all to enjoy.
Happy reading everyone!! #writeupnorth

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

**FREE ONLINE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS FOR CHILDREN ON CLIMATE CHANGE**
Mondays 5pm to 6.30pm from 10th June for 4 weeks and
Tuesdays 5pm to 6.30pm from 11th June for 4 weeks.
For more information please go to https://t.co/SuVleS22Au
#climatechampions

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

Ever Wanted to be an Author?
We' re delivering free creative writing workshops for adult beginners as part of Wirral's Borough of Culture celebrations.
For more info please use this link https://t.co/HL8YBQukYq
#madeinwirral

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

Ever Wanted to be an Author?
We've partnered up with Wirral Libraries to deliver free creative writing workshops for adult beginners to guide them on how to write a short story which can be included into a published anthology.
#wirral #madeinwirral

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

What a way to start our #Climatechampions project across LCR with Laura, the CEO of Hope for the Future climate change charity not only talking about environmental issues and what we can do but also how she decided, at an early age, to fight climate change. Truly inspirational.

[Birkenhead News @BirkenheadNews]

Free creative writing project for 9-13 year olds to be held at Birkenhead Central Library https://t.co/A5Nz0ChnBK @ReadNowWriteNow

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

We're running free writing courses for 9-13 yo in the Liverpool City Region from May on the theme of climate change. Young people will have the chance to write a short story, see it included into an anthology and displayed in local libraries plus read out at storytelling events.

[Charlie Lea, author & creative director @ReadNowWriteNow]

The first post of our Write Up North blog is now here and, over the next few weeks, we will be showing everyone what we have been looking at during our creative writing courses funded thanks to Arts Council England.
https://t.co/kibcS6UDJY