{"id":24014,"date":"2023-03-16T03:01:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T03:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/clare-libraries-teen-week\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T03:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T03:01:53","slug":"clare-libraries-teen-week","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/clare-libraries-teen-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Libraries Teen Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Teen Week is an annual celebration of literacy and reading related events for Secondary School students in Clare.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">This year\u2019s programme includes visits by two teenage writers to Ennis and Ennistymon libraries. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Young adult\u00a0<\/span>author\u00a0Aislinn\u00a0O&#8217;Loughlin\u00a0will read to a school audience from her new hilarious supernatural adventure\u00a0<em>Big Bad Me, <\/em>published by Little Island in 2022. In her events she aims to pull back the curtain on how to create truly believable YA characters in a world populated by supernatural beings and talk about why the supernatural continues to capture the imaginations of YA readers everywhere.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Award winning writer Helena Close will explore the concept of \u2018Story\u2019 in her workshops for Senior Cycle, Secondary School students. With Helena\u2019s expert guidance classes attending will look at the history of storytelling, the elements of story including character, plot, conflict, genre etc. Students will explore their own creativity through writing during her hands-on workshops and will be given the opportunity to share their writing at the end of the workshop.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Helena Close has written two teenage novels; <em>The Gone Book<\/em> (Little Island, 2020) and <em>Things I Know<\/em> (Little Island 2022), both of which were nominated for the Carnegie Medal. <em>The Gone Book<\/em> <span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><span>was also <\/span><\/span>shortlisted for the An Post YA Novel of the Year, won a White Raven International Award, was chosen for inclusion in EmpathyLab UK&#8217;s 2021 selection, and shortlisted for LAI Awards 2021.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Image source: Ouda images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24015,"template":"","class_list":["post-24014","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Clare Libraries Teen Week - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Teen Week is an annual celebration of literacy and reading related events for Secondary School students in Clare.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/clare-libraries-teen-week\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Clare Libraries Teen Week - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Teen Week is an annual celebration of literacy and reading related events for Secondary School students in Clare.\u00a0This year\u2019s programme includes visits by two teenage writers to Ennis and Ennistymon libraries. 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