LSE Student Recruitment Creative Writing prize-giving event, with the Royal Society of Literature
Date: Thursday 11 February 2010
Time: 5-6.30pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Rebecca Clee, Patrick Ness, Alex Scarrow, Mark Walden
Chair: Peter Florence
The culmination of LSE's second creative writing competition for London state schools, this panel of award-winning and innovative authors, alongside one teenager with her finger on the pulse of young-adult writing, will be discussing, and asking you in the audience, what's in store for teen fiction?
Rebecca Clee is an editor of Spinebreakers, the site for book-loving teenagers by book-loving teenagers.
Patrick Ness' first book for teenagers, The Knife of Never Letting Go, won the 2008 BookTrust Teenage Prize and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. The sequel The Ask and the Answer was published in 2009, with the final book in the trilogy Monsters of Men due to be published in 2010.
Alex Scarrow used to be a rock guitarist, then he became a graphic artist, then he decided to be a computer games designer. Finally, he grew up and became an author. He has written a number of successful adult thrillers, but it's young adult fiction and his first novel for that audience, TimeRiders, that have allowed him to really have fun with the ideas and concepts he was playing around with when designing games.
Mark Walden spent ten years working as a video games designer and producer. He is author of the popular H.I.V.E series, is a comedy-thriller set in an elite school where children are trained to be supervillains.
This event is supported by the LSE Centennial Fund.
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