SUNDAY 30 JULY – 3.30 PM
Panel – Studio 3
Soak up that Malory Towers nostalgia – but with a twist! Camp YA founder and author Jacqueline Silvester (Wunderkids) brings together Aleema Omotomi (Everyone’s Thinking It) and Ravena Guron (This Book Kills) to explore fantastical, scandalous and murderous boarding schools, shedding light on everything from storytelling strategy to deconstructing the traditional narratives surrounding such stories. Intrigue meets heart in this absolutely unmissable panel.
About Aleema Omotoni
Aleema Omotoni is a British-Nigerian author living in England. She writes novels that centre Black teens - especially Black girls - navigating friendships, family and coming of age. Aleema loves musical theatre, astrophysics and rainy autumn days snuggled up with a new TV show to binge.
About Jacqueline Silvester
Jacqueline Silvester is our resident author at Camp YA. As a writer of stellar science fiction set far away from home, she knows exactly what it takes to be Team Beaver’s camp councillor. Jacqueline is also a citizen of the world, having lived in several countries and speaking four languages.
About Ravena Guron
A born and bred Londoner, Ravena writes MG and YA, usually featuring antiheroines or snarky narrators. Growing up she always read the last page of books first, but discovering Agatha Christie in her early teens stopped that habit, igniting a love of twisty murder-mysteries with jaw-dropping endings the reader never saw coming. Ravena is a lawyer with a degree in biochemistry, and hopes to use the knowledge gained from her experiences to plot the perfect murder (for a book, of course!).
In her spare time, Ravena enjoys hiking in the great outdoors (though nothing too mountainous because she's very clumsy), baking cakes (that never rise) and falling asleep to her thousandth re-watch of Friends.
