DANIELLE JAWANDO is an author, screenwriter and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her debut YA novel, And the Stars Were Burning Brightly, won best senior  novel in the Great Reads Award and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the YA Book Prize, the Jhalak Children's & YA Prize, the Branford Boase Award and was longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the UKLA Book Awards and the Amazing Book Awards. Her other publications include the non-fiction children's book Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives), the short stories Paradise 703 (long-listed for the Finishing Line Press Award) and The Deerstalker (selected as one of six finalists for the We Need Diverse Books short story competition), as well as several short plays performed in Manchester and London. Danielle has also worked on Coronation Street as a storyline writer. 

Short list

• In Our Hands, Lucy Farfort (Tate)

• When Our Worlds Collided, Danielle Jawando (Simon & Schuster)

• Mia And The Lightcasters, Janelle McCurdy, ill. Ana Latese (Faber)

• Ellie Pillai Is Brown, Christine Pillainayagam (Faber)

• Rebel Skies, Ann Sei Lin (Walker)

• Dadaji’s Paintbrush, Rashmi Sirdeshpande, ill. Ruchi Mhasane (Andersen)
   

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