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About the Author

Testimonials

Publications

About the Author

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 Steve has published over fifty titles and numerous short stories and poems.

Steve offers:

Whole-day and half-day insets plus twilights for KS2 upwards, plus adults
Boosting Creativity in the Classroom (package)
StoryMaker – developing creative writing and literacy through thinking skills (package)
Stress Management, Relaxation and Emotional Resourcefulness (package)

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.

Testimonials

‘I want to thank you for the wonderful day you spent with us at school. The feedback from the children and adults alike was really brilliant. A very big Thank You!’

Pam Plowman, LRC Manager Guilsborough School

‘Your e-mail address was given to me by the Librarian at Bretton Woods/The voyager School in Peterborough. She recommended you highly. . I already knew how inspirational you were having worked with you a few years ago in Peterborough Libraries when we travelled between schools creating a story which was taken up by each subsequent school. You worked really hard to inspire the kids and get them to come up with ideas. I would very much like you to visit us during our Book Week…’

Lyn Jarvis, Head of Resources Ken Stimpson Community School, Peterborough

‘We really enjoyed the whole visit and the pupils were thrilled with it all… Many, many thanks for what must be a very exhausting two days for you. I hope that you will be available another year to provide another Year 7 with an enjoyable, and educational, day.’ (Ronnie White, Rydal Penrhos School, Colwyn Bay).

From Katherine Davison, LRC Manager Ellis Guilford School, Nottingham –

‘I thought he was really good at using fantastic words. His stories were so exciting because of the way he told them.’

Tegan Y2.

‘His whole school assembly was very funny. He really made us laugh.’

Tyreese and Cain, Y3.

‘Steve worked in our class and we made a story up together. I don’t really like writing but this was fun. He gave us lots of ideas.’

Arbaaz.

From Nicole Jordan, Library Services for Education Leicestershire: comments on evaluation forms following a presentation to local teachers –

‘Steve Bowkett was very good.’

‘Insights into how writers get their ideas…’

‘(I realise that) authors are more accessible than I first thought!’

Publications:

Recent non fiction:

ALPS Storymaker – a teaching manual that uses fiction to develop thinking skills and accelerated learning. Includes a CD ROM

But Why (in collaboration with Sara Stanley). This pack for doing philosophical enquiry with young children also includes my three picture books –