Louise Beech speaks to award-winning author Liz Flanagan.
Award-winning local author, Liz Flanagan, talks to host Louise Beech about her much-loved fantasy series,
Wildsmith and
Legends of the Sky. Be prepared for baby dragons, powerful witches, and a heart-warming reminder of our place within the natural world around us.
This event is part of our 2024 Brontë Festival of Women's Writing. Find out more about the festival here.
Date: Saturday 21 September, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Tickets: £7 (under 12s free)
Location: West Lane Baptist Church, Haworth
Suggested age: 9+
This event will be livestreamed and recorded for our digital festival attendees. Find out more about attending the festival online here.
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Liz Flanagan is an award-winning author whose books include the Wildsmith series of chapter books, beautifully illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton, and the exciting Legends of the Sky fantasy series - including Dragon Daughter and the most recent book The Pirate’s Dragon.
Liz's YA novel Eden Summer was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. She lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and teaches creative writing in many different settings.
(Photo credit: Matt Radcliffe)
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Louise Beech is the author of ten novels and a memoir, Eighteen Seconds (2023).
Her debut, How to be Brave, was a Guardian Readers’ Pick; The Lion Tamer Who Lost was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel Awards 2019 and longlisted for the Polari Prize that same year; Call Me Star Girl was Best magazine’s Book of the Year; This Is How We Are Human was a Clare Mackintosh Book Club pick; and audiobook Daffodils was shortlisted for the Audies23.
Her thrillers, End of Story and Lights Out are written as Louise Swanson.
Louise's play, How to be Brave, comes to a variety East Yorkshire venues in October.