A. M. Dassu

A. M. DASSU is a former World Book Day author and internationally acclaimed author of 16 children’s books, including Boy, Everywhere and Fight Back and Kicked Out, which have collectively been listed for over 55 awards, including the Carnegie Medal, Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and Week Junior Book Award.
She is a director at Inclusive Minds, a patron of The Other Side of Hope, an international literary magazine edited by immigrants and refugees, and one of The National Literacy Trust’s Connecting Stories campaign authors, aiming to help inspire a love of reading and writing in children and young people.

A. M. Dassu Courses

Writing and Pitching a Children’s Book

A. M. Dassu

Saturday 10 October 2026


A practical 2-hour masterclass on shaping, pitching and preparing a children’s book for publication.