All school groups produce an anthology of work during their week and after the course it’s not unusual for groups to re-design the anthology to include photos or other illustrations.

By the end of your time at the centre you will probably also have a number of ideas of how you want to use the week's work to build upon and enhance the benefit of the writing week. Some groups hold readings/performance evenings for parents and other members of the community. This is often an opportunity to formally “launch” the anthology and the young writers. The anthology may become the first of a series of regular in-house poetry/writing magazines or journals which keep all the students focused on continuing to write.

In addition to these activities you might like to place extracts of writing or poems with the local press and they might be encouraged to provide a regular slot for young writers.

In other areas the local radio might be a suitable forum for pieces, particularly if you or they can provide a background piece to place the reading in a context. Stations might even be persuaded to offer a regular slot to showcase new writing by local young people.

Alternatively, posters of writing or poems could be distributed around school and also through local community venues.

Remember, any activity which helps to sustain the writing momentum and confidence of young writers, will be of enormous value to them and to your school.