Margaret McDonald and Danielle Jawando: Award-Winning YA Fiction

Activity

Centre for the Novel Public Event. Margaret McDonald and Danielle Jawando: Award-Winning YA Fiction

Description

Two of Britain’s most exciting Young Adult fiction authors – Danielle Jawando and Margaret McDonald – join us to discuss their award-winning novels. Jawando’s third book, If My Words Had Wings, is a life-affirming story of rehabilitation and hope after prison; was recently shortlisted for this year’s YA Book Prize, an award she won in 2023 for her second novel, When Our Worlds Collided. This year, McDonald became the youngest ever winner of the Carnegie Medal for Writing for her debut novel Glasgow Boys which explores mental health, trauma, inequality and identity through the friendship between two boys who have grown up in foster care.

Period	4 Oct 2025
Event title	WayWORD 2025
Event type	Festival
Location	Aberdeen, United KingdomShow on map