Catch up on this inspiring Carnegies Webinar featuring Shadowers’ Choice Award-winning authors. This exclusive online event brings together celebrated writers Dean Atta, Manjeet Mann, and Tia Fisher, hosted by Jake Hope, to explore the impact of shadowing, the power of storytelling, and the importance of copyright for writers today.
✅ Winning Shadowers’ Choice – What it meant and its impact
✅ The Power of Shadowing – How it shapes young readers and writers
✅ AI: Friend or Foe? – A discussion on AI’s role in writing
✅ Why Copyright Matters – Insights from ALCS
✅ ALCS Poster Competition Launch – An exciting new competition for shadowers with a BIG prize
📖 Dean Atta – Award-winning poet and author of The Black Flamingo (2020 Shadowers’ Choice Winner)
📖 Manjeet Mann – Award-winning author of Run, Rebel (2021 Shadowers’ Choice Winner)
📖 Tia Fisher – Author of Crossing the Line (2024 Shadowers’ Choice Winner)
🎤 Jake Hope – Carnegie Awards Executive and children’s reading expert
This is a fantastic opportunity for shadowing groups, educators, and book lovers to hear from award-winning authors and industry experts.
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Speaker bios
Dean Atta is an award-winning Black British author and poet of Greek Cypriot and Jamaican heritage. He is the author of I Am Nobody’s Nigger, The Black Flamingo, Only on the Weekends, There is (still) love here, Confetti, and Person Unlimited: An Ode to My Black Queer Body. Dean won the 2020 Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice Award for Black Flamingo and hosted the 2023 Carnegie Awards Ceremony.
Manjeet Mann is an award winning author of YA novels and picture books. She has twice been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and won the 2021 Carnegie Shadowers Choice Award for Run, Rebel. Her second novel The Crossing won the Costa Children’s Book Award and she is twice recipient of the UKLA Book Award. Manjeet is also an actress and writes for the stage and screen, and hosted the 2024 Carnegie Awards Ceremony.
Tia Fisher’s debut, Crossing the Line, is a verse novel for teens. It won the 2024 Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice Medal for Writing, the UK Literacy Association Book Awards 2024 and numerous other awards. It was included in The Times’ Children’s Books of the Year 2024 and the Read for Empathy Collection, 2024. Tia has a master’s in writing for young people from Bath Spa University, and works in a busy public library in East Anglia when she’s not visiting schools and writing books for children of all ages.
Jake Hope is the Carnegie Awards Executive, a post which supports CILIP in leading the strategic development of the Awards. Jake is an experienced children’s book and reading development consultant, named as one of the UK’s top librarians of the future in the National Love Libraries Campaign. He has written extensively on children’s reading development and librarianship, contributing chapters to numerous books, producing the SLA publication on diversity and inclusion and previews for The Bookseller. He is the author of the recently published book on visual literacy, Seeing Sense, (Facet Publishing, 2020). Jake enjoys working creatively, has strong network links across the book trade and reading sector and is passionate about children’s books and promoting a love of reading and writing with young people and their families.