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Barry Stone is a long term member of both The Writer’s Guild of Great Britain and The National Association of Writers in Education. He has worked extensively in schools with children of all ages, often dealing with difficult areas such as school bullying, drug use, domestic violence and mental illness.

Examples of his lighter work with youngsters include enabling girls to write about their appreciation of cars, and galvanising a whole primary school to produce a body of work that he subsequently edited into a book about games played in the schoolyard over the previous hundred years.

Barry is available for half day, full day, and longer term engagements. So long as projects are clearly planned, he is willing to work with groups of any size, and that are from any age group. For testimonials, please go to the National Association of Writers in Schools Website, or e mail Barry at the address given.

Barry has enormous experience as a Community Arts Activist (please see his profile in the A to Z of writers on the Literaturenortheast website) and if required is available to assist with the planning/leadership of projects in schools.

Lastly, he is currently writing a quartet of novels called The Winston Tails (spelling deliberate). The manuscript for book one - Barking At Winston - has received the following endorsement -

‘Barry Stone achieves the near impossible: he writes from the point of view of a dog and makes me care about the canine and the people he comes into contact with. My tail’s wagging!’

Ian McMillan, Yorkshire poet, broadcaster & comedian.

Presenter, The Verb (BBC Radio3).