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Carnegie Greenaway Awards Shadowing Webinar: W is for Writer

Together with award-winning children’s author Tony Bradman and a panel of writers and illustrators shortlisted for the 2022 Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards, this webinar will look at what it means to be a writer, how you can make it happen and make a living from it.

To mark World Copyright Day, Carnegie Greenaway Awards Sponsor and champions of authors’ rights, ALCS, is pleased to invite you to join us for this special webinar. ALCS Chair and children’s author Tony Bradman will be hosting a panel discussion with writers and illustrators shortlisted for the 2022 Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards.

Aimed at the children and young people who shadow the Awards, the webinar will take place at lunchtime on Wednesday 27 April (12-1pm). Contributing writers and illustrators will be asked a series of questions and to contribute to an inspiring discussion on being a children’s book creator. Plus shadowing groups watching along will have the chance to post their questions to our fantastic panel of shortlistees.

This webinar supports the following PKSB headings:

• 7. Literacies & Learning   
  
  

Biography

Tony Bradman is an award-winning author, editor and reviewer of children’s books. He has written poetry, picture books and stories for all ages, including historical fiction set in a wide range of periods, from Roman Britain to the First and Second World Wars. For Walker he has written the bestselling Viking Boy, a gripping, immersive adventure story that has become a standard text for children learning about the Vikings; and the equally gripping, award-winning Anglo-Saxon Boy, which explores the Battle Of Hastings through the eyes of Magnus, son of Harold, the last Saxon King.

He is also the editor behind the highly successful Voices series of novels by writers such as Benjamin Zephaniah and Patrice Lawrence, about the hidden diverse communities of Britain’s history.

Yu Rong is an acclaimed British-Chinese children’s picture book illustrator. She obtained a BA degree in Chinese Painting and Contemporary Art Design from Nanjing Normal University’s Art College and an MA degree in Communication and Design from London’s Royal College of Art, where she studied under Quentin Blake. Her picture books have been published in Britain, America, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, France, Sweden, New Zealand and other countries. In recent years, she has been working with several Chinese publishers and with leading Chinese authors, including the Hans Christian Andersen award winner Cao Wenxuan and Andersen award nominee Qin Wenjun. She has received several international and national illustration awards. Yu Rong’s art work combines traditional hand paper cuts with drawing, which allows the pencil drawing to bring plain two dimensional paper cuts into a vivid rich three dimensional art work. Yu Rong lives in the countryside of Cambridge with her husband, Donkey, her three children, Caterpillar, Chilli Pepper and Bean, and their German Pointer, Captain Sniff.

Emily Gravett has a rare talent for creating exceptional books for children. The winner of two CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals, her skill and wit are second to none. Emily first sprang into the limelight with the ground-breaking Wolves in 2005, which has been followed by such modern classics as Meerkat Mail, Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears, Monkey and Me, Again!, Tidy and Old Hat. Each book is unique and different from the last – and each features endearing, intricately drawn characters that touch the heart and tickle the funny bone. In 2019 Emily won the inaugural BookTrust Storytime Prize for her picture book Cyril and Pat. Emily has also illustrated the new picture book, Song of Gladness by Michael Morpurgo, out 29th April 2021. Emily divides her time between Brighton and north Wales and lives with her family.

As a child Phil harboured dreams of becoming a professional footballer, only for his career to be ended by an addiction to Frazzles, as well as an all-round lack of ability. Instead, at the age of 26, he got a job in a bookshop and fell in love with children’s fiction. Twenty years on he still delights in unearthing stories from everyday, innocuous events. When the Sky Falls will be Phil’s 20th published book. He lives with his three children, on the side of a very steep hill in West Yorkshire.

Sue Divin is a Derry-based writer but, hailing originally from Armagh, can’t quite classify herself a ‘Derry Girl.’ With a Masters in Peace and Conflict studies and a ‘day job’ in Community Relations/Peace building for over fifteen years, Sue’s writing often touches on diversity and reconciliation in today’s Northern Ireland.

Sponsors

The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) is a not-for-profit membership organisation set up by writers, for writers. ALCS have supported the Yoto Carnegie Greenaway awards and accompanying shadowing scheme for over a decade. They help CILIP to bring librarians and authors together to celebrate the best books for young people and promote copyright education. Visit www.alcs.co.uk

This webinar is free and open to all. 

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