Produced by the Bocas Lit Fest and sponsored by The Scotiabank Foundation, the Write Away! YA Literature Project was designed to keep students and teachers motivated and engaged in creative writing and reading when schools went online in 2020.  The project included five virtual workshops that break down the essentials of creative writing, led by the author Lisa Allen-Agostini, and introduce youth to award-winning Caribbean YA Literature. The virtual workshops cover everything from character building to planning your plot and scene-setting, using engaging, short videos with illustrations from Caribbean Literature and popular YA fiction.

Character is the engine of fiction. In this video, Lisa Allen-Agostini explains how you build a great character from the ground up.