LITERATURE
PATRICE LAWRENCE
Patrice Lawrence is a multi-award-winning writer for children and young people with a background in social justice and equality, who writes across genres and age groups.
Her debut book for young adults, Orangeboy, was shortlisted for the Costa Children's Award and won the Bookseller YA Prize and Waterstones Prize for Older Children's Fiction. She has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal seven times. Her awards include the Little Rebels Book Award, the inaugural Jhalak Prize for Children and Young People, the Woman and Home Teen Drama Award, and the CrimeFest YA Prize twice. In 2023, she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Patrice works extensively in schools inspiring young people to become storytellers and mentors adult writers from backgrounds under-represented in traditional British publishing.
Patrice Lawrence will join Laura Bates on 8 July to discuss the importance of representation in young adult literature.