Steady For This

Time: 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Fully Booked

Audience: 11 - 13 year olds

As part of Orpington Literary Festival, author Nathanael Lessore talks with Year 7 & 8 and pupils about his Yoto Carnegie Medal shortlisted book, "Steady For This", and his personal writing experience, with a brief workshop.

Nathanael Lessore was born in Camberwell, South East London, as one of eight children to French and Madagascan parents. Although he spent most of his life in Peckham, Nathanael has also lived in Paris, Strasbourg, and Singapore. Nathanael became a Marketing Executive after graduating from the University of East London, believing at the time that a Creative Writing degree destined him for a career in marketing. Writing his first book, Steady For This, gave him the opportunity to show his South East London childhood as the funny, warm, adventurous world that wasn't always represented as such.