WRITERS and artists are working with students during Hurworth School's book week.

Award winning performance poet Adisa is in residence throughout the week, working with pupils and other people in the community. Songwriters Don Rose and Dave King and Hurworth poet, Boyd, are leading workshops in school. Aileen Stebbings of Darlington Library is running workshops with Year 9 students, encouraging them to consider what makes good teenage literature. Years 7 and 8 are taking part in a readathon, raising money to help children with cancer.

The week culminates today, World Book Day, with a literature caf evening celebrating the work of students.