The Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing has an all-female shortlist with seven authors, including Sita Brahmachari and Jessie Burton. The Yoto Carnegies honour exceptional work in children’s literature and illustration and are assessed by children’s and youth librarians. Children and young people also cast their votes for the Shadowers’ Choice Medals, which are given out […]

Author Andaleeb Wajid is now more confident of her reader base and so she wants to experiment with self-publishing at this point. She talks to SheThePeople.TV founder Shaili Chopra about her writing and more.

Pakistani-British writer Kamila Shamsie‘s seventh novel ‘Home Fire’ has bagged the Women’s Prize for Fiction. On 6th June, Shamsie was awarded the 30,000 pounds ($40,000) prize at a ceremony in Bedford Square Gardens in central London. The author is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist […]

What do you do when you fail to comprehend a subject? Ask the teacher to explain it again? Seek guidance from an elder sibling? 17-year old Shruti Tiwari, a resident of Matehiya village in Lakhimpur Kheri district’s Bheera town thought out of the box and made her science notes in Hindi. The interesting part is that they have been compiled […]