SCBWI north: Linda Newbery at the lincoln children's book festival
Date and Time:
Saturday, 13 May 2006, 12 noon during the Lincoln Book Festival. Linda Newbery will also be on the professional panel in the Old Library
from 1.30-3.30pm
Description:
SCBWI North presents the Carnegie Medal nominated and Lincolnshire Young People's Book Award nominee, author
Linda Newbery.
Crossing lines, crossing categories, crossing borders - crafting fiction for young people. Presented in partnership with the Lincoln Book Festival. She has written extensively for young readers of all ages, is a regular reviewer of fiction, and tutors writing courses for children, teenagers and adults. She is currently a judge for the Whitbread Prize and her two previous novels,
The Shell House and
Sisterland were both nominated for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. Her new work,
Set In Stone will be out 4 May 2006. Michael Morpurgo is patron of the Lincoln Book Festival.
Contact:
Addy Farmer on
scbwi.northuk@gmail.com for further information. or visit
www.lincolnbookfestival.co.uk.
Addy will be joining other children's writing representatives to meet and
greet those interested in finding out more about it. She or Alan Gidney will
be waving at you from behind a SCBWI table in The Drill Hall from 10am-4am
on SATURDAY 13th May. It's a busy day for the SCBWI!
Drop by and say hello!
Venue:
Ruston Room, Lincoln Drill Hall (book quickly as venue only seats up to 60)
Cost: Discounted rates for SCBWI members. Tickets available exclusively to Festival friends and SCBWI members from April 1st. On general sale from April 14th.
http://britishscbwi.org