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Clare Helen Welsh is a primary school teacher and award-winning picture book author. She has recently moved into writing narrative non-fiction for children, which involves using storytelling skills to make real life stories come alive for young readers.
You’ve had a busy year so far. What have you been up to?
It has definitely been busy, but busy in the best way! I kicked off the year as the picture book Writer in Residence for Write Mentor, which means I have the pleasure of providing monthly webinars and live workshops on all elements of picture book craft (from narrative arcs to character to voice) for twelve months. So far, it’s been a lot of fun. I really enjoy interacting with the writing community and helping writers along their journey, passing on all the useful things I’ve learned and those things that I wish I’d known sooner.
And April saw the release of my seventh picture book (seventh?! I almost can’t believe it.) is a narrative
