AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL WAITUHI O TĀMAKI
SCHOOLS PROGRAMME HŌTAKA KURA 2021 Supported by Freemasons Foundation
Is fact stranger than fiction? In 2010, award-winning poet Jessica Le Bas wrote a novel (under the name Jesse O) about a 12-year-old locked down during a global pandemic. Ten years on, her fictional story is now everyday life around the world and has been re-published as Locked Down with Toby Morris illustrations. Jessica discusses how she originally crafted her fictional world, how it measures up to what actually happened, and how facts and imagination combine to create great stories.
