{"id":963,"date":"2021-11-09T08:20:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T08:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/?p=963"},"modified":"2021-11-09T08:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T08:21:17","slug":"s3-author-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/2021\/11\/09\/s3-author-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"S3 Author visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were fortunate enough to have Scottish author Ross Sayers speak to some of our S3 English pupils yesterday, as part of our Book Week Scotland celebrations. Ross gave a very engaging and inspiring talk about being a writer, writing in Scots and creative writing.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you were at the session or not, Ross&#8217;s books are well worth reading! Available copies are on display at the issue desk in the library. &#8220;Daisy on the outer line&#8221; is Ms Boyd&#8217;s favourite. Read the book blurbs in this short <a href=\"https:\/\/wke.lt\/w\/s\/gTJhmy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wakelet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This visit was fully-funded by the Scottish Book Trust.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-964 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/lrcba\/uploads\/sites\/39532\/2021\/11\/09081326\/RSayers-books-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/lrcba\/uploads\/sites\/39532\/2021\/11\/09081326\/RSayers-books-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/lrcba\/uploads\/sites\/39532\/2021\/11\/09081326\/RSayers-books-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/lrcba\/uploads\/sites\/39532\/2021\/11\/09081326\/RSayers-books.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sayers33?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Sayers33<\/a> for a fab visit with some S3 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BA_English_Dept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BA_English_Dept<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>An inspiring visit for aspiring writers that covered Scots, characterisation, description, Baby Yoda, Spiderman &amp; imaginary confetti &#8211; &amp; more.<\/p>\n<p>Great start to our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BookWeekScotland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BookWeekScotland<\/a> fun! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZhpLgE9IxC\">pic.twitter.com\/ZhpLgE9IxC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bellshill Academy Library (@LRCBellshill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LRCBellshill\/status\/1457694871775502337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were fortunate enough to have Scottish author Ross Sayers speak to some of our S3 English pupils yesterday, as part of our Book Week Scotland celebrations. Ross gave a very engaging and inspiring talk about being a writer, writing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/2021\/11\/09\/s3-author-visit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[115,77,43],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-author-visits","tag-book-week-scotland","tag-library"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/lrcba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}