Award-Winning Author Sarah Mussi is to visit Foyle College

On Monday 24th June, Year 9 students at Foyle College in Derry are in for a real treat when multi award-winning author and teacher Sarah Mussi visits them. Sarah’s first novel, The Door of No Return, won the Glen Dimplex and Irish Writers' Children's Book Award and was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award, amongst others.

Her second novel, The Last of the Warrior Kings, was shortlisted for the Lewisham Book Award and inspired a London- themed walk. Her thriller Siege was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal (2014) and won the BBUKYA award for contemporary YA fiction. Her novel Riot won the Lancashire Book of the Year Award 2015. Bomb, was listed in The Guardian New Best Kids Books 2015 list. Her latest, novels Here Be Dragons, Here Be Witches, Here Be Wizards, published by Vertebrate Publishing
/ Shine Bell part of The Snowdonia Chronicles trilogy are wonderful romantic fantasy thrillers set on Snowdon and featuring the timeless myths of Snowdonia and the Mabinogion.

Sarah will be talking to five classes of students about the inspiration for their own writing, enthusing them about the joy of reading and stimulating their creative writing. Each participating student will also be gifted a copy of Here Be Dragons, which Sarah will sign and dedicate. A signed book can be a permanent reminder of a special experience and can reinforce
the message about the pleasure and importance of reading.

The visit is part of a Literacy Project funded by the Merchant Taylors’ Foundation working with Authors Aloud UK, taking authors into schools in Southwark, Aylesbury, Wallingford and Derry. The aim is that by meeting the authors, young people will be encouraged to increase their reading for pleasure and develop their creative writing skills, and it will support
the literacy work that is done in the school.