Disappearance of January Dust and Other Stories

Kereen Getten grew up in Jamaica where most of her stories are set. She now lives in Birmingham with her family and writes coming of age stories about friendship, family and community. Kereen has published ten books including When Live Gives You Mangoes, If You Read This, and Di Island Crew Series. She won the Caribbean Readers Award, The Redbridge Children’s Award and the Bocas Children’s Book Prize. She was shortlisted for Waterstones Children’s Award, Jhalak Prize and the UKLA Book Prize.Samantha Montgomerie is an author who loves writing for young people. She has written a number of educational readers, middle grade fiction and poetry. She has numerous poems published for adults, found in various anthologies and literary journals. She has worked for over 25 years as an English teacher, and loves seeing young people engrossed in great stories. She lives in New Zealand, where she likes to wander, letting the salt-laced air inspire great plotlines and poetry. Oliver is an award-winning author, poet and writer/performer. His critically-acclaimed debut children's poetry collection, We Are Family: Six Kids and a Super-Dad was published in May 2024 by Otter-Barry Books. His debut children’s novella, Alfie’s First Fight, won Best Illustrated Young Reader at the 2023 Children’s Literature Festivals’ Book Awards, and Alex Wheatle MBE described it as “Compelling!” When he isn’t writing, Oliver can usually be found performing his stories and poems and facilitating workshops all across the world. Oliver co-runs Your Story, a non-profit organisation based in Denbigh which collaborates with and for communities to discover and creatively share stories. Other books that Oliver has either written or contributed to include Alfie and the Thief, Fishing For Rainbows, Tales of the Weird, the Wild and the Wonderful and Tales of the Bold, the Brave and the Beautiful. He lives in Denbigh, North Wales.