Dr Elisa Webb

Dr Elisa Webb

Academic, Article, Author of books, Children's author, Ghostwriter, Novelist, YA author

Also writes as

Elisa Marcella Webb
www.kingston.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/research-degree-students/profile/elisa-webb-62
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Available for

Workshop, Talk, Reading, Interview, Commission a book

Audiences

Age 7 to 11, Age 11 to 14, Age 14 to 16, Age 16 to 18+, Further Education, University, Adult

Genres

Adventure, Essay, Fable, Fiction, Fiction narrative, Humour, Literary realism, Memoir, Meta fiction, Mind, Narrative, Novelty, Realistic fiction, Self-help, Short story, Textbook

Book types

Anthologies, Fiction 8-13, Fiction for young-adults

Details

Put the fun back into reading and writing with children's author Elisa Webb

Creative writing and reading workshops for schools: from Year 4 to Year 14 and adults too.

Author, teacher, parent and former Head of Department at Grey Coat Hospital School Elisa Webb has great skill and experience at delivering tailor-made bespoke workshops to develop students' love of reading and writing. These workshops focus on key writing skills: description, dialogue, forward action and emotion; as well as hitting key OFSTED criteria. Thus, all students are fully engaged in a flow activity applying new skills to a novel situation. Learning more, knowing more and doing more. She also delivers Author Q & As, assemblies and adult workshops.

Elisa Webb created Book Explorers Tours at Waterstones Kingston to encourage inner-city students to learn how to navigate bookstores to better access the wonderful world of literature. She is an Imaginative Writing Southern Gothic practice-based PhD from Kingston University. Darkling Park, her debut novel is a children's adventure set in a South London graveyard. Her second novel Three Kids and a Dead Dog is set in Georgia, U.S.A. She has had over 20 short stories published alongside several articles. 

An absolutely excellent book, hard to put down! Despite being a children's book it is suitable for all ages with some nuggets of comedy for adults. It's a tale of adventure, humour and friendship and I would truly recommend it to anyone to read. Darkling Park Amazon review.

Children, teachers and TAs have come up to me this afternoon to tell me how impressed they were with your workshop. Staff said the children were hanging off your every word! The children are really excited to read your book! I popped my head into Year 5 in the late afternoon and I could feel a real buzz of excitement with the children and the staff! I think you really inspired children today. Thank you so much! We would love to have you back next year. Workshop review.

£7.00 per head for a workshop or two free workshops for schools that purchase a class set of Darkling Park (20 plus copies at 8.99 each). Patrician Press delivers free of charge, on the day of the workshop. ISBN 9780993494536 Do call to discuss further details, discounts and adult bookings. I also undertake writing, editing work and tuition.

 

 

Books by Dr Elisa Webb

Darkling Park is an adventure about making friends and taking on bullies, set in a south London graveyard. Three Kids and a Dead Dog is my second novel: Waker, Theo and Halo find mummified Nephilim in rural Georgia. Over 20 short stories published in collections including Chains: Unheard Voices, Refugees and Peacekeepers, Tempest An Anthology, and All Over the Damn Place which I created and edited uniting my talented MA peers spread across 7 time zones and 3 continents.
978099349456
Darkling Park

Darkling Park

Darkling Park is an unusual children’s adventure set it a graveyard. When Fin and her embarrassing family move to Darkling Park, Fin worries about why their new home is called Blind Twin House and will she ever live it down at school? Even worse, there’s something or someone lurking in the bushes. Fin makes friends with odd boy Zen and his strange stripy dog. Together they discover there’s something weird and wonderful beneath the graves. And that Ty may not be a dog at all. How do you know if your new friends are true friends? Fin is about to find out. “If you love Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell and Ransom Riggs this intriguing, enigmatic book’s for you.” IB  
Three kids and a dead dog

Three kids and a dead dog

A Southern Gothic novel and PhD project 
All Over the Damn Place

All Over the Damn Place

Collection of short stories and poems by No Pens Allowed MA class of 2012 

Photos

Dr Elisa Webb - first image
Dr Elisa Webb - first image
Dr Elisa Webb - first image

Keywords

ADVENTURE ASSEMBLIES BARISTA BOOKSELLER BULLYING CREATIVE CROSSOVER EXTINCTION FAMILY FICTION FRIENDSHIP FUNERAL FUNNY GARIBALDIS GOTHIC GOTHICHOUSE GRAVEYARD HENOCHSCHONLEINPURPURA HOMESCHOOL HYGGE ICECREAM IMMIGRATION INNERCITY INTERVIEWS LITERARY LONDON MARSUPIAL MISO NOVEL POOLS QUAGGA READING SCHOOL SEN SOUTHERNGOTHIC STORYCAMPS TALKS TEACHER THYLACINE TOAST TOOTING TRAINER TUTOR UNDERGROUND WORKSHOPS WRITING YA