Coming of Age with Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock & Meg Rosoff

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock , Meg Rosoff and Janet Smyth

Coming of Age with Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock & Meg Rosoff

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock , Meg Rosoff and Janet Smyth

1:30pm

Sunday, October 31, 2021

A unique opportunity to hear two leading YA writers discuss their latest uncompromising, poignant and deeply thoughtful novels exploring first love, heartbreak, poisonous secrets and coming-of-age. Hitchcock‘s latest novel Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town, is a series of interconnected short stories following key moments in the lives of young people from small towns in Alaska and the American West. Rosoff introduces The Great Godden, a lyrical tale, told by an unnamed narrator closely observing their family fracturing over the course of one dreamy summer. There is the opportunity for a live audience Q&A. Moderated by Janet Smyth.

Recommended for ages 12 and up.

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TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.

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A unique opportunity to hear two leading YA writers discuss their latest uncompromising, poignant and deeply thoughtful novels exploring first love, heartbreak, poisonous secrets and coming-of-age. Hitchcock‘s latest novel Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town, is a series of interconnected short stories following key moments in the lives of young people from small towns in Alaska and the American West. Rosoff introduces The Great Godden, a lyrical tale, told by an unnamed narrator closely observing their family fracturing over the course of one dreamy summer. There is the opportunity for a live audience Q&A. Moderated by Janet Smyth.

Recommended for ages 12 and up.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

TIFA Kids is generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.

Conversation
Reading

Featured Authors

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock 
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock was born and raised in Alaska. She worked for many years commercial fishing with her family and as a public radio reporter all over the state. Her debut novel, The Smell of Other People’s Houses, was a William C. Morris Award Finalist and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. She currently lives and writes in a yurt outside Fairbanks.

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Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and moved to London in 1989. She attended Harvard University and St. Martin's College of Art. Her first novel, How I Live Now, sold nearly one million copies, won the Printz Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and made into a feature film. Her novels have won or been shortlisted for twenty international awards, including the Carnegie and the National Book Award. She lives in London with her husband, daughter, and two lurchers.

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Janet Smyth
Janet Smyth is an arts programme consultant specialising in strategic planning of events, programmes and projects for children, young people, educators and care-givers within festivals and creative spaces. She has worked with the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the National Galleries of Scotland, Seven Stories in Newcastle and is currently Children’s and Families Programmer for International Literature Festival Dublin, Programme Consultant for the Bath Children's Literature Festival and Reading is Magic virtual festival, Children and Families Programme Curator for the Boswell Book Festival in Scotland and Programme Consultant for the TIFA Kids 2021 Festival.

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1:30pm

Sunday, October 31

What to read

Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by , The Great Godden by ,
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