Year 5 pupils from Salway Ash CE Primary school delighted us - and the Bank Manager - with their story about a rat who wanted nothing more than to be able to do martial arts with his tail.

Shute Community Primary School’s headteacher Patrick Germscheid was delighted with the story outcome from his Year 5/6 Badgers class; their gripping tale of a fruit-led Food Fight was our last publication of 2021.

Broadwindsor’s Jane Austen class created a multi-layered narrative to tell the story of Jeffrey and Jam-es, a turkey and banana duo who wrestled with internal conflict about wanting to be food for hungry families, while also being fearful of being eaten.

Here at TBODAN we’re very lucky to have professional illustrators volunteer to bring our young writers’ words to life.

Following the design and print process, we delivered finished copies of the sensational book co-written by Year 3 & 4 pupils at Broadwindsor CE Primary School, making every single class member a published author!

Beaminster’s Prout Bridge Project Youth Club kindly invited us to their juniors session, where young writers worked collaboratively - and noisily!

Creating a quarterly newspaper at our after school club starting 20th January 2022

Following our recent - and rather macabre - recipe writing session at Bridport Youth Club, the juniors’ Recipe for a Nightmare is now out there for all to see.

Plotter or Pantser? That’s one of many questions we put to our young writers at Beaminster School.

Eight Haiku’s were revealed around the venues of the Literary festival.

Members of The Vault after school writing club gathered and worked together to create narratives, showing that stories come from anywhere.

Bridport Juniors scared us all silly with their ‘Recipe for a Nightmare’, written collaboratively during a youth club session.

Week two of our project with Beaminster school, and we spent a chatty morning looking at dialogue and character.

Newsgathering with a difference at our new free after school club, The Vault, which runs on Thursdays during term time.

The Bank of Dreams & Nightmares has teamed up with the Bridport Literary Festival to offer a fun-filled challenge during this year’s event.

We spent a fantastic morning with young writers at Parrett & Axe CE Primary School.

Beaminster School has invited us to facilitate an exciting project with pupils from Years 7, 8, and 9 to create an anthology of writing, which will be published in early 2022.

Calling all illustrators!

We are launching our first FREE after school creative writing club on Thursday 4th November.

Thank you to all the volunteers who attended our first training sessions.