As part of the Arts Council England funded Your Library Story project, Darlington based author Lisette Auton is offering four free drop-in sessions where she’ll be writing in Darlington Library this summer, open to all ages, although children must be accompanied by an adult. No booking required, just drop-in and spend as long as you like anytime between 11am and 3pm on the dates below:
Monday 29th July in the Art Gallery at Darlington Library
Monday 5th August in the Art Gallery at Darlington Library
Monday 12th August in The Study at Darlington Library
Monday 19th August in the Art Gallery at Darlington Library
All sessions open between 11am and 3pm
So come and meet Lisette in the Library! During the summer holidays she’ll be writing in the library and would love you to drop in to join her. She’ll have pens and paper and prompts galore for anyone new to writing, or bring along your notebook and your work in progress to focus on. It’s an opportunity to have a chat about all things words related with a professional full-time writer who is a published author and playwright. Suitable for anyone of any age, though children must be accompanied by an adult.
Lisette Auton is the author of three children’s books published by Puffin (Penguin Random House UK) with a fourth publishing in 2025. She is an award-winning poet, a Tees Valley Combined Authority Artist of the Year 2024-2025, and writes plays for children and adults.
Lisette is passionate about telling the stories she struggled to find – those that reflect her northern, working class, disabled and neurodivergent experience – and making sure that everyone can see themselves in, or are authors of, the stories that are being told. She’s an award-winning multidisciplinary artist based in Darlington, who does stuff with words as an author, playwright, activist, creative practitioner, filmmaker and performer. The focus of all her work is on place, process, and creative access and we hope you’ll enjoy catching up with her if you drop-in to Darlington Library this summer.
