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21 Nov 2016

David Almond and the Incredibleness of Imagination

The great writer, David Almond, was the keynote speaker at the SCBWI Conference I went to this weekend. Until a couple of weeks ago I’d only heard from others that he was a great writer, but I discovered it for myself when I decided to do some conference prep and read “Skellig”.   It shocked me.  It was beautiful and magical, but it was ambiguous.  What was real and what wasn’t? …