If you’d like to invite Sara to visit your school or library – either live or online via Skype – please contact her at sara (at) sara-grant.com to discuss fees and dates. She’s happy to discuss customizing an event to meet your needs.

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Susan Sandercock, Curriculum Leader for English at South Essex College said: “[Sara's] workshop mixed fun and creativity with rolling your sleeves up and getting down to some serious writing. All learners achieved something from the workshop and went away full of renewed confidence in their writing, and feeling energised and inspired."

One student from South Essex College said, “I wrote an entire short story in the session – I am really proud of myself.”  Another student added, “Writing stories is now something I will do at home in my spare time because it’s a lot of fun and will stop me being bored.”  

“Our members came away inspired and reved up after Sara spoke at our conference. She is a wealth of information and insight, presenting her materials in a personable and approachable manner. Bravo!” – Trish Batey, Former Regional Advisor, Indiana SCBWI

“Sara's visit showed our students the work that is writing and illustrated the process and power of revision. My students loved her frank and honest discussion about how difficult it is to write even about topics and issues that you care deeply. Dark Parties has not spent a single day on our library shelves...the kids (and adults) loved it!” -- from a high school English teacher in Indiana

Here's a list of discussion starters for book groups. (There are some spoilers so don't click the link unless you've read the book!)

“Sara is a wonderful speaker. Her enthusiasm is contagious. The workshop was packed with useful information. It makes you feel better to know that everybody is going through the same hard process of rewriting many many (a zillion in my case) drafts. But the difference is that you leave with tools to do it.” – from an attendee at Sara’s masterclass on revision in London

“The ripple effect of your revision workshop continues: Donna Weidner (RA Germany) and I experienced important and enabling shifts in perspective on our approaches to storytelling, which resulted in overhauls of the middle-grade and YA material we worked on with you. Your colored highlighting exercise made it abundantly clear where excessive exposition was bogging down the action, and we both feel we learned some effective, immediately applicable skills in how to show rather than tell. Also very useful was your insistence on cutting out any text, no matter how precious to us, which does not directly strengthen the story.” – Twyla Dawn Weixl, who attended a writing workshop with Sara in Munich, Germany