Geraldine McCaughrean and Sally Nicholls Chaired by Rebecca Butler

Two Oxford residents and stars of contemporary children’s literature Geraldine McCaughrean and Sally Nicholls talk about their books, their writing, their inspiration, and how the past is a particularly good source of stories. Bring your writing questions and pick up tips from the masters
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McCaughrean has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice: first in 1998 with A Pack of Lies and again in 2018 with Where the World Ends.  She has also won the Whitbread Children’s Book Award (three times), the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Smarties Bronze Award (four times) and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award.

Nicholls won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for Ways to Live Forever, and An Island of Our Own won the Independent Bookseller’s Week Book Award. Things A Bright Girl Can Do is tipped to be shortlisted for this year’s Carnegie Medal.

Discussions are chaired by writer and lecturer on children’s literature, Dr Rebecca Butler.

Age 8+