Below are the final set of videos in the Letters To Our Daughters series, introducing some inspiring female role models, each of whom has written their own letter exclusively for this project! In these films, they discuss how they got into writing, what inspires them, and tips for those starting out. This is also the writing team available to run workshops in your school! Please note the first draft deadline of Friday 24 May 2024.
Full project information, along with videos 1-12, can be found at www.letterstoourdaughters.world
Fin introduces playwright and novelist Mel Pennant
What do you write? Mel discusses her new prose fiction series The Reckoning of Miss Hortense
Mel discusses whether girls want to tell different stories to boys
Mel discusses her letter to her daughter Keziah (featured in video 23)
Fin introduces writer Erinn Dhesi, who discusses her letter No (featured in video 22)
Erinn Dhesi describes how she went from dreaming about writing to learning how to do it
Erinn Dhesi on what inspires her
Erinn considers whether the act of writing is different for girls compared to boys
Erinn gives some advice for new writers starting out
Erinn reads her own letter to her (imagined) daughter
Mel reads her letter to her daughter
Yusra reads her letter to her daughter
Click below for PDF copies of Mel's, Yusra's and Erinn's letters to their daughters.
A final message from Fin