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Anna Jefferson and Sam Johnson

Panel discussion with Jacqueline Crooks, Uju Asika and Beth Miller. Brought to you by Writing Around the Kids with funding from Arts Council

Jacqueline Crooks was born in Jamaica and grew up in 70s and 80s Southall, part of London's migrant community, carving out a space through music, where she raved at dub reggae dances. She has carved out a career for herself in the community sector working with Black and minoritised charities. Her stories have been longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award. Named as a 2023 top ten debut author by the Guardian/The Observer. Her book, Fire Rush, is set in 1970s and 1980's London, Bristol, and Jamaica and is about the role of women in the underground world of dub reggae.

Uju Asika is a multi-award nominated blogger, writer, speaker and creative consultant. She is the creator of the popular family blog Babes About Town and the author of three books including her acclaimed debut Bringing Up Race: How To Raise a Kind Child in a Prejudiced World. Hailed as 'timely and important' and one of the Best Books of September 2020 in the Evening Standard, Bringing Up Race earned a Starred Review in Publishers Weekly and was featured widely including Good Housekeeping, Woman's Hour, Marie Claire, Good Morning Sunday and The Observer. Uju's picture book A World For Me And You (Where Everyone Is Welcome) was published in 2022 and her latest book Raising Boys Who Do Better: A Hopeful Guide for A New Generation came out in June 2023.  A former journalist, Uju has also been a screenwriter and script editor for some of Nigeria's spiciest TV dramas including the long-running soap Tinsel. Born in Nigeria, Uju grew up in the UK and has lived in London, New York and Lagos. She's based in north London with her husband Abiye and two teenage sons. In her down time, she enjoys bingeing Netflix, piling up more books than she can read and dancing in her kitchen.  You can keep up with Uju via her website <a href="http://ujuasika.com/" title="http://ujuasika.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ujuasika.com</a> or her parenting blog babesabouttown.com and @babesabouttown across social media.

Beth  Miller has published eight books with four different publishers: one of the Big Five, an indie, a digital first publisher, and a commercial non-fiction pile ’em high press. She has bumped across genres, from women’s commercial and reading group to psychological thriller to comedy. She had an agent, then managed to lose the agent. But she has brokered three book deals on her own since then. Beth has taught creative writing for many years, including for Arvon and for the universities of Brighton and Surrey, and for New Writing South. She also works as a book coach for writers at all stages – 135 of them since 2015. She specialises in helping writers with their query letters and pitches.

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