Margaret McDonald is a Scottish author who lives in Glasgow. Her debut novel Glasgow Boys was published in May 2024 and won the Branford Boase Award, the Carnegie Medal, the UKLA Award and UKLA Shadowers’ Choice Award. She has also been published in the poetry and prose magazines The Manifest Station, In Parentheses, Breath and Shadow, Bandit Fiction and Bubble Lit Mag. She is a first-generation student and holds an MLitt with Distinction in English Literature from Glasgow University and a First-Class B.A (Hons) in Creative Writing with English Literature from Strathclyde University. She writes about the working class experience, the student experience and the Scottish healthcare system as a former NHS employee and disabled author.
Stephen Dilley has been a secondary English teacher for the last 16 years and is currently Head of English at Kendrick School, Reading. He is part of the UKLA Book Awards team and is an avid reader and reviewer of children’s and YA books for Just Imagine. He has also worked with the English & Media Centre as an Associate Teacher and is a frequent contributor to Emagazine.
Anjali Patel is CLPE’s Lead Advisory Teacher and she is responsible for the development and delivery of their high-quality learning programme and book-based teaching materials. Through her three decades in education, she has been driven by the belief that all children have the right to be literate, and this can be supported when they are given equal access to high-quality literature and book sharing experiences with interested adults.
Katherine Woodfine is the author of more than 15 books for children, including the Sinclair’s Mysteries and Taylor & Rose Secret Agents series. Her first published novel, The Clockwork Sparrow, was a Sunday Times bestseller and was nominated for numerous awards. A champion of children’s literature, she has previously worked on projects including the Children’s Laureate, YALC (the UK’s first young adult literature convention) and podcast Down the Rabbit Hole, and is now the book reviewer for The Week Junior magazine.
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Andrea Reece
Tel: 07807 893369 | Email: branford.boase@gmail.com