Day of appearance – Saturday 31st October
Kelly McCaughrain’s debut Flying Tips for Flightless Birds won an unprecedented hat-trick of awards at the 2019 Children’s Books Ireland Awards, as well as the Northern Ireland Book Award. Her YA novel Little Bang was shortlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Award for Writing and the Children’s Books Ireland Awards. Just Another Dead Boy is her first YA speculative romance. Kelly was Children’s Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland 2019-2021.
Panel Information: In the presence of dystopia
Dystopian stories have been a stable part of our reading lists for decades and they show no signs of slowing down now. Our authors discuss how the genre is still relevant, what inspires them and what we can learn from stories showing a world we would rather not live in.
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