Win a 30-minute chat with author A.M. Dassu! Chat about anything related to publishing, submitting to agents, writing freelance, the publishing process, or Boy, Everywhere. Even have Dassu look at a query letter within the 30 minutes.

A.M. Dassu is an award winning writer of both non-fiction and fiction including the internationally acclaimed novel Boy, Everywhere which is one of The Guardian's, Bookriot's, and BookTrust's Best Children's Books of 2020 and has been given a much coveted star from Kirkus, Booklist and Publisher's Weekly. It is on Amnesty's Books That Inspire Activism list and has been listed for 12 awards including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the "most prestigious accolade for children's books in the UK" and is the 2021 winner of The Little Rebels Award for Radical Fiction and also the 2021 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award. She is Deputy Editor of SCBWI-BI's magazine, Words & Pictures, and a Director of Inclusive Minds, a unique organisation for people who are passionate about inclusion, diversity, equality, and accessibility in children's literature. She is also patron of The Other Side of Hope, a new print and online literary magazine, edited by immigrants and refugees which serves to celebrate the refugee and immigrant communities worldwide and one of The National Literacy_Trust 's Connecting Stories campaign authors which aims to help inspire a love of reading and writing in children and young people. Previously, she has worked in project management, marketing, and editorial. Her work has been published by The Huffington Post, Times Educational Supplement, SCOOP Magazine, Lee and Low Books, DK Books and Harper Collins. When she isn't battling emails or writing, she mentors aspiring authors and loves to shout about other people's books.

Image: A headshot of A.M. Dassu.