Cheltenham Festival with Liz Laird and Bernard Ashley, 5 April
The Other Side of Truth, (adapted by the author) The Afternoon Play Radio 4, 22 April
Receiving Doctor of the University from The Open University, Cardiff, 3 May. Beverley was presented for her degree by Peter Barnes from the University’s Centre for Childhood. To read more click here.
Poetry Reading to accompany Exodus: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado (with Olusola Oyeleye, Grace Nichols and John Agard) Barbican Gallery, London, 7 May. More information at www.barbican.org.uk
International School of Lausanne, 13-15 May
United Kingdom Reading Association Conference, Cambridge, 12 July
Writing for Young People, Arvon Foundation, Shropshire with Writer/Theatre director Olusola Oyeleye and Guest Writer Alan Gibbons, 21 – 25 July. More information from www.arvonfoundation.org or
Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, Kristiansand, Norway, 9 – 14 August
Children’s Literature New England’s Institute What a Gamble Friendship Is! , Newnham College, Cambridge, 17 – 20 August
Beverley Naidoo and Deborah Ellis (author of The Breadwinner and Parvanna’s Journey), Edinburgh Festival, 24 August. More information from www.edbookfest.co.uk
Children’s Book Week in Guernsey, 6-10 October
African Visions 2003, Chair at event with Tsitsi Dangaremba, Lilia Momple and Assia Djebar, The Voice Box, Festival Hall London, 21 October
SPEAK! An evening of readings with Harold Pinter, Beverley Naidoo, Monica Ali, Hari Kunzru and Diran Adebayo organised by the Refugee Council, Thursday 23 October, 6.30pm, St Paul’s, The Actor’s Church, Covent Garden London.
Reading is Magic – Dorset Teacher’s Conference, Bovington Middle School, Wareham, 8 November
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