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Dancing Pencils Creates More Young Authors
Many young writers are seeing their dreams of being published become reality thanks to a national literacy project called Dancing Pencils – and founder Felicity Keats Morrison says a Daily News article was a springboard for the project.
In 1996, the Daily News carried a story about a group of Grade 3 Manor Gardens Primary pupils who had had stories published by umSinsi Press, Keats Morrison’s publishing house.
“That article sparked huge interest in children’s writing and I started to teach children the right-brained method of writing,” said Keats Morrison. “Schools then invited me to do workshops for pupils and teachers and in 1998, Engen commissioned me to teach all the pupils and teachers in 13 primary schools on the Bluff and to publish 89 books of children’s writing. Books were donated to disadvantaged schools in rural areas.”









