It’s the 23rd June 2022, and this year’s National Writing Day. Here are links to reviews of useful books about writing, resources for use in schools (some are good for adults too!) and top tips (ditto).

According to First Story,

Here are some links you might find useful for ideas and resources. The ‘top tips’ links contain tips from established writers, ie people who earn a living from their writing.

• Agency 51 (top tips)

• Ankle-biters

• Awareness Days

• Centre for Literacy in Primary Education

• First Story

• Mortal Fools (top tips)

• The Literacy Hive

• Writing prompts for kids

Just to confuse matters, there’s a National Day of Writing (as opposed to a National Writing Day) in October:

National Day of Writing.

There’s some interesting information and activities there also.

My reviews of books about writing that you might find interesting:

Review: Short-Form Creative Writing

Review: Writing Tools, by Roy Peter Clark

Review: Murder Your Darlings

Review of Teach Like a Writer

Review: Story Craft

Reviews of reference books for writers

Book review: Collins Complete Writing Guide

What I've been reading: Dreyer's English