Escalator Press describes itself as a ‘learning press’. Learning is in its DNA – encouraging new authors, working alongside them at every stage of the process, providing authors with media training, workshops on websites etc, working with the publishing students at Whitireia, taking on interns – it’s quite a long list. But over the last month we’ve had another role, as part of the ‘Creative Writing for Youth’ programme at the Hutt Library. In fact, we’re a big part of the programme.
Escalator authors Rudy Castañeda Lopez, Trish Harris and Rob Hack all talked about their writing experience, and Adrienne Jansen talked from the publishing point of view. And that’s a big point of view these days, when the options for publishing have really opened up. Most of this group of young writers are working on their first novel, so we might see them before long!
On the experience, Rudy Castañeda Lopez writes:
Rudy at the launch of Open Your Eyes, Jackson Ryder
It was a very pleasant experience. I didn’t know what to expect, whether there would be two that showed up or thirty. As it turned out there were a very respectable dozen high school students.
See Hutt City Libraries website for more information on this great programme.
