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AN EXPLANATION "Shepherd's Pie" is a project that grew and grew. It began when the Youth Offending Team asked Craig Bradley, a local writer to see if he could work with a few of our young people. Within days we saw a wealth of material being produced. We began to plan a book of Creative Writing. The working title was "Voices from the Red Room", named after the office that the young people were working in. The Youth Offending Team was working closely with students at the Calderdale College Drama Dept. They were producing a play for us. We showed the "Voices from the Red Room" material to them. The students were so impressed with the writing that they included some of it in the play. They also changed the title of the play to "Shepherd's Pie Smells Different Now", the title of one of the poems in our book. (go to the Drama page to see more) As a result of that, "Voices from the Red Room" became "Shepherd's Pie Smells Different Now" and was published in March 2005. Demand for the book was so high that we printed a second edition in April 2005. Creative Writing is now firmly established at the Youth Offending Team and we will be publishing a new book every six months. |
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