My Siobhan Dowd Memorial Lecture - up on Tumblr

I had a GREAT time at the Edinburgh Book Festival over the weekend.  So glad to see so many of you!  One of my events was the inaugural Siobhan Dowd Memorial Lecture.  I got asked quite a lot if people could read it, so I've put the whole thing (it's longish) up on my Tumblr.  It's a personal sort of journey, asking myself why I write for young people.  Hope you like it (read from the bottom up)!

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