Join Ashley Hickson-Lovence, novelist, university lecturer and former school teacher, as he leads this interactive workshop on writing in verse for young people. Using his YA novel WILD EAST as the central inspiration. 
 
WILD EAST
When 14-year-old Ronny’s life is struck by tragedy, his mum decides it’s finally time they move out of London. In his new city, as a Black teenager in a mostly white school, Ronny feels like a complete outsider and struggles to balance keeping his head down with his ambition of becoming a rapper. But when a local poet comes into class, Ronny discovers a world he’s never considered before.
Please bring your own notebook and pen to this event.
Ashley Hickson-Lovence loves British hip hop, and it shows in his first Young Adult verse-novel. Wild East has been inspired by Ashley’s time as a secondary school English teacher, his own move from London to Norwich, and tutoring a group of asylum seekers.