It had never really occurred to me to write for young teens before, which is kind of stupid considering I worked with them!”

I was completely besotted with her, and after receiving a few rejections on an adult book I’d written, it felt so refreshing and fun to write silly stories with happy endings.

But it was a few years ago that she went back to her writing, a decision which landed her, her first published novel aimed at young teens: “I started writing a lot of children’s stories after the birth of my niece. Since then, she studied Creative Writing and English Literature at university and in her spare time continued to write a mixture of short stories, poetry and half-finished novels: “It’s something I’ve always loved – getting all the imagined people, places and ideas in my head out on paper and making them into something real.” Image Credit: Andrew Winterįor over fifteen years, the author and mother of one has been teaching secondary level English– a job she loves.

Having grown up in a tiny village in the 1980s with nothing much else to do, she recalls writing scripts and performing plays with friends at primary school as well as reading childhood classics such as The Secret Garden and books by Judy Blume. Pukaar Magazine speaks to award-winning author Tamsin Winter about writing for young teens, the pressures of growing-up and her latest novel, Jemima Small Versus the Universe.įor as long as Tamsin can remember, she has always loved to write and dreamed of becoming an author as a little girl.

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