Steve Voake

Steve Voake is the award-winning author of more than 20 books for young people including The Dreamwalker’s Child, The Starlight Conspiracy and Blood Hunters. He is senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

Writing Tips and Exercises

Writing Tips

You don’t have to tell young readers as much as you think

Genre: Fiction, Film & TV, Writing for Children & YA

There is sometimes an assumption that younger readers won’t understand what’s going on unless the plot and the characters’ feelings are explicitly spelled out to them. But children are often more sophisticated readers than adults think they are and, like...

Steve Voake

Writing Exercises

Inside the Shed

Genre: Fiction, Film & TV, Writing for Children & YA

Sometimes we are really keen to tell our readers everything, to make sure that they understand what it is that we are trying to say. But in this case a useful piece of advice might be: ‘Think really hard about what it is that you are trying to say, then go o...

Steve Voake