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 a London-based author and consultant. Her unconventional and nomadic childhood has shaped a lot of her stories, and she has lived all over the world, born in a refugee camp in Sweden, after her pregnant mother ran away from the Soviet Union. She lived in Los Angeles for several years, drawing inspiration for The Last Wish List from her own US adventures. Perfect for fans of John Green and Jenny Han. She co-writes paranormal romance series The Blood Web Chronicles under the pen name Caedis Knight.
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.
