Started tutoring on the Orange Young Writers Festival again, (this is my fourth year), I'm based at Darlington Arts Centre for the next two weeks and if the group today is anything to go by, we should all have a lot of fun and do some really good writing. What a bright bunch!

I'm really looking forward to the next couple of weeks. I've said it before on this website, but I think it's worth repeating, we have some fantastic young people in this country - let's hear more about such teenagers and not be so focussed on what teenagers do wrong.