PURCHASE WRITING CHARACTERS DIFFERENT TO YOU WITH PATRICE LAWRENCE
Filmed live at the Festival of Writing 2019
Join prize-winning author Patrice Lawrence for the first part of this masterclass on writing characters with a different background to you.
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Presenter bio
Patrice Lawrence is an award-winning writer, whose debut YA novel, Orangeboy, won the Bookseller YA Prize and the Waterstones Prize for Older Children’s Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award and many regional awards. Indigo Donut, her second book, was shortlisted for the Bookseller YA Prize, was Book of the Week in The Times, The Sunday Times and The Observer, and was one of The Times’ top children’s books in 2017. Both books were nominated for the Carnegie Award.
Detail Summary
We all have a duty to make our books reflect the diversity of the world around us.
In the first part of this two-part masterclass, award-winning author Patrice Lawrence reveals the key things to consider when writing characters with a different background to yourself.
- Total running time: 43:43
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