Three rising stars of young adult fiction talk about their work with author Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson.
In Tomi Oyemakinde’s latest speculative thriller, We Are Hunted, seventeen year old Femi takes a top-secret business trip to a remote and mysterious island. Helen Comerford’s The Love Interest is a swoony, humorous take on the conventions of the superhero-verse. Drawing on his previous career as a celebrity journalist, award winning author Benjamin Dean examines the dark underbelly of showbiz in How To Die Famous.
Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson is a Sunday Times bestselling author and first winner of Future Worlds Prize for SFF writers of colour. Her book, The Principle of Moments, is an epic sci-fi fantasy.
Guest curated by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson as part of Off the Shelf Festival of Words.
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