We’re excited to be holding our first Young Writers Festival North in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University this summer. In celebration of the inaugural year, current partner schools in the North West, East Midlands and Yorkshire are being offered free tickets for up to 25 students.
HEADLINED BY AWARD WINNING MANCHESTER WRITER AND FORMER FIRST STORY WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE
Danielle Jawando
Danielle’s debut YA novel, And the Stars Were Burning Brightly, won best senior novel in the Great Reads Award, and was shortlisted for several prizes including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and was longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Her second novel, When Our Worlds Collided, won the 2023 Jhalak Children’s and YA Prize, the YA Book Prize and the 2023 Diverse Book Awards. Her third YA novel, If My Words Had Wings, was published in May 2024.
HOSTED BY
ACCLAIMED POET, WRITER, PODCASTER AND FIRST STORY WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE
David Scott
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Manchester Metropolitan University
First Story Partner Schools can book via the link below.
