Steve Bowkett taught English for 18 years in Leicestershire High Schools. He is now a full-time writer, storyteller, educational consultant and also a qualified hypnotherapist. He has published a number of educational books including (for Network Educational Press) Imagine That – developing creative thinking skills, Self-Intelligence – boosting self-esteem and confidence, and ALPS StoryMaker / StoryMaker Catch Pack – using fiction as a resource for accelerated learning, thinking skills and creativity. These packs include a teaching manual, short story collection and a CD resource of writing games. Continuum Books have also brought out 100 Ideas for Teaching Creativity and 100 Ideas for Teaching Thinking Skills.

Apart from this Steve has written fantasy and SF for teenagers, adult and teen horror, romance, mainstream fiction for pre-teens, fiction and non-fiction for younger readers and poetry for all ages. To date he has published forty-two titles and numerous short stories and poems.

A good model is a storytelling session with all the children / students he is to work with, followed by workshops. Steve is also happy to do all storytelling or all workshop sessions through the day if preferred. Workshops are broadly focussed on generating and organising ideas, but he can emphasise particular written forms (poetry, etc) and genre if required.