Living Cultures, Living Language with Farzana Hakim and Patrice Lawrence MBE

Farzana Hakim is the author of Sweethearts Of Ilford Lane and editor of Thursday Connectors at Write On! Magazine. Farzana has previously held a series of Hear My Voice, Creative Writing Workshops with Pen to Print to empower women by hearing their stories and helping them to write them down

‎Sweethearts Of Ilford Lane – ISBN: 978-1789554441

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Connect with Farzana: Twitter -@farzanahakim

Patrice Lawrence MBE is an award-winning writer. Orangeboy, her first novel for teenagers was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Award and won the Waterstones Prize for Older Fiction and YA Bookseller Prize. Patrice has won the CrimeFest YA Prize twice for Indigo Donut and Eight Pieces of Silva, which also won the Woman and Home Teen YA Prize and the inaugural Children and Young Adult Jhalak Prize. 

Needle – ISBN: 978-1800901018

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Connect with Patrice: Twitter – @LawrencePatrice

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Barking and Dagenham Libraries and Pen to Print are proud to host our eleventh annual Literary Festival which takes place between Monday 5 September and Friday 23 September.

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