Young Adult Book Festival

Stowmarket Library

Sep 14, 2024 10:30 AM

Join us for our free Young Adult Book Festival at Stowmarket Library, suitable for readers aged 11-16! Enjoy a full day of author interviews and panels, book fair, writing activities, competitions, author Q&As and more!

We’ll be joined by guest authors Pam Smy (The Thornhill Series), Annalise Avery (The Immortal Games) and Rachel Churcher (The Battle Ground Series). A chance to talk about your favourite YA novels, discuss what makes a good protagonist, and learn the basics of how to write your own story!

This event is free to attend but booking is required. Please bring your own lunch. The festival will run from 10.30AM to 4PM.

About Pam Smy

Pam Smy has illustrated folktales, chapter books, nursery rhyme collections, picture books and novels. She has had 20 years of art school teaching and lecturing experience at Cambridge School of Art and, over this time, has developed an understanding of how to nurture creative process and work through ideas with illustrators. She has a passion for observational drawing and sketchbooks.

About Annalise Avery

Annaliese has spent most of her life surrounded by stories, both at work as a library manager and at home writing them. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and has worked as a children and Young adult book editor, and has taught creative writing workshops across the UK. She currently works at a global conservation charity. Annaliese is a keen amateur astronomer and founded an astronomical society in 2013.

In January 2020, Annaliese was shortlisted for the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices 2020 anthology. Her debut middle-grade novel, The Nightsilver Promise was released in 2021, followed by The Doomfire Secret in 2022. In 2023 Annaliese’s YA debut The Immortal Games was released.

About Rachel Churcher

Rachel Churcher was born between the last manned moon landing, and the first orbital Space Shuttle mission. She remembers watching the launch of STS-1, and falling in love with space flight, at the age of five. She fell in love with science fiction shortly after that, and in her teens she discovered dystopian fiction. In an effort to find out what she wanted to do with her life, she collected degrees and other qualifications in Geography, Science Fiction Studies, Architectural Technology, Childminding, and Writing for Radio. Rachel is the author of the award-winning Battle Ground series.

This event has been organised in collaboration with Foreword Festival and Taller Books, and is kindly sponsored by Paul Wright Estate Agents, Harris & Harris Books, and the East of England Co-Op.

Booking via: https://www.suffolklibraries.co.uk/events/events/young-adult-book-festival