Virtual drum roll please … we’re delighted to announce that we’re the recipient of the 2021 Isobel Award (cue wild applause). Carlowrie Castle launched the eponymous award in 2019 to celebrate those who have faced challenges and not only met ... Read More
How many words does it take to tell a story? Four? Own less, live more. Ok, you might think this is more of a mantra than a story, but social media accounts are awash with such chants, designed to grab our ... Read More
In 2016 I got a text from Maxine Sloss, founder of the Super Power Agency, asking me to watch the now famous video ‘Once upon a school’. For those who haven’t seen it, Dave Eggers outlines how a chance conversation brought a group ... Read More
During the lockdown, I had the fortune of putting together the creative writing of the young people we worked with during the 2019/20 school year into new publications. Their writing made the first few weeks of living in lockdown bearable. ... Read More
From working in the classroom to editing pupils’ writing and designing book covers, the Super Power Agency volunteers and the work they do, is the lifeblood of the organisation—without them we would never have been able to accomplish all that ... Read More
Once upon a time, three thousand two hundred and fifty six miles across the Atlantic Ocean in Brooklyn, New York, you’ll find a curious shop with some very special ‘customers’. You see it was there, in The Brooklyn Superhero Supply ... Read More
