Join Kemi Emmanuel for Storytelling Secrets: A guide to writing compelling children’s stories.

Created to help writers understand what makes a children’s story engaging, meaningful and memorable.

This event is organised by the Black British Book Festival. Selina Brown, Founder and CEO is a Studio Partner at The Old Print Works and the founder of the Black British Book Festival and the inaugural National Reading Hero recipient of the Queen’s Reading Room Medal. Her Penguin picture book My Rice is Best has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2026, The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2026 and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2026.

This is a free event. If you’d like to support The Old Print Works please consider making a donation here.