Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook

Dawn Daniel

Learning from children for ‘The Second Kind of Darkness’

Peter Kenny

September 18, 2017

So I am now in the ‘seeking representation’, (agent-beguiling) stage for my children’s story (age 9-12) called The Second Kind of Darkness (more about it here). After donning my imaginary pith helmet, I selected an agent to target. Mostly this was done on gut feel having seen her in the new Children’s Writers and Artists Yearbook and liking…

Children’s fiction, Fiction, Prose, Writing

amquerying, Children’s Books, Dawn Daniel, Margaret Hamlin, The Second Kind of Darkness
Among School Children

Peter Kenny

March 17, 2015

Last week I spent a day working with 32 more able 11-year old writers from schools in Brighton. This was organised by my friend Dawn Daniel with Clare Blencowe at Downs School. The day was themed around contrasts, and I worked with them on poetry in the morning session. The warm ups were about locating…

Advertising, Education, Poetry

Among School Children, Clare Blencowe, Dawn Daniel, Downs Junior School, W.B. Yeats, WW2 shelters