What a fantastic #LitFest 2023! A huge thank you to 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus, Michael Mann - NIGHTSPARK out now!, @TheLeano and Zohra Nabi for inspiring our students and helping them to reach their full potential. We really hope to see you all again soon!✏️📚 #LitFest #RfP Arts & Media School Islington Islington Council

Celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth at AMSI Library with a fantastic selection of new books, along with some old favourites!🫶🏿📚 #SalutingOurSisters #RfP Arts & Media School Islington Islington Council

Student feedback for LitFest 2023! We gathered up all the year groups comments and put them into word clouds! We're really happy with the positivity from our students - Thank you all so much again!✏️🌤️ 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus Michael Mann - NIGHTSPARK out now! @TheLeano Zohra Nabi Arts & Media School Islington Islington Council

We were so lucky today to host SarahJNaughton who gave a talk to our Y10 students. Our students were inspired by your message of resilience and saw that with the right mindset, they can achieve anything! Thank you so much!📚 #youbetterwatchout #RfP Arts & Media School Islington Islington Council

Congratulations Zohra Nabi for the nomination for the longlist of the 2024 #BranfordBoaseAward!🎉 Our Y7s loved reading #TheKingdomUnderTheSea as well as meeting you last September! AMSI wishes you the best of luck!🪄📚

Congratulations to Alexandra Sheppard for the shortlist nomination of Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2024 for #FriendshipNeverEnds!🎉Our students really enjoyed meeting you at our first LitFest back in 2022. Everyone at AMSI wishes you the best of luck!📚

We had a fantastic #WorldBookDay2024 yesterday at AMSI Library! Thank you so much to 🌶️ Pickled Pepper Books 🌶️ for organising our £1 WBD books - they went flying off the shelves!🤩 Happy Reading everyone!📚💛📚💛📚 #RfP Arts & Media School Islington Islington Council

Thank you to the friendly staff at 🌶️ Pickled Pepper Books 🌶️ for letting us visit today with a group of five Y7s. These Y7s have excelled in their English homework and as reward we took them out book shopping - each student got a book of their choice! Well done Y7!🎉📚

Thank you so much to @_jo_clarke for visiting Arts & Media School Islington today. Jo ran a workshop as part of Young Mystery Writers project run by National Literacy Trust. Our students had a fun time learning about how write their own stories and came up with many mysterious ideas!✏️🔍Thanks Jo!📚

We were really lucky to have our friend Alexandra Sheppard visit us yesterday to donate books to the library including her new novel, Alyssa and the Spell Garden!🪄🌿 Thank you so much Alex, we can't wait to get your new book into our students' hands!😄📚 Arts & Media School Islington #RfP

We are very excited to have Anam Iqbal visit us in a few weeks to talk about her debut YA novel, The Exes! The Y10 students who take part in the talk will each get a free copy of The Exes - needless to say they are very excited too!🤩📚 Arts & Media School Islington Penguin Books UK

We had a great time yesterday being visited by Anam Iqbal! Anam spoke to a group of our Y10 and gave a fantastic talk about being a writer and her new book, The Exes. Thank you so much for coming to see us and inspiring our future writers!😄📚 Arts & Media School Islington Penguin Books UK

LITFEST24!🎉 We kicked off LitFest this year with a fantastic talk from George The Poet 🇺🇬 who gave an inspirational talk to our Y9s. Our Y9s then had workshops with the amazing RAP THERAPY. Thank you both for a fantastic start to the week!📚🗣️🎶

LITFEST 24!🎉Our second guest this year was Patrice Lawrence! Patrice worked with our Y8s today to give them an insightful assembly, followed up by creative writing workshops. Thank you so much for bringing our quieter writers out of their shells!📚 Arts & Media School Islington

LITFEST 24!🎉 Thank you so much to Jeffrey Boakye for coming to speak to our Y10s and Y11s - we had so much fun! It was an absolute pleasure and you were an inspiration to both students and staff. We really hope to see you again one day!📚 Arts & Media School Islington

LITFEST 24!🎉 For our final day of LitFest we had Siobhan McDermott (麥舒雲) come in to work with our Y7s. Our Y7s had a fantastic time mixing different mythologies to create their own stories. Thank you so much for inspiring our newest students!📚🖊️🐉 Arts & Media School Islington #PaperDragons

We're excited to attend BookTrust's virtual talk with benjamin dean on the 16th of October!🛸Our Y7 students can't wait and say a huge thank you for their books!🤩📚 If you would still like to join, please follow the link below!: shorturl.at/FAHes #booktrustrepresents

We are buzzed for #BookBuzz! This is a fantastic reading programme organised by BookTrust to enourage young people in secondary schools to read. Needless to say our Y7s and Y8s were very pleased with their new books!🤩📚 Arts & Media School Islington #readingforpleasure #getchildrenreading

LitFest 2025 ✒️✨ AMSI LitFest is back and in full swing this week with a amazing line-up of visiting authors for our students to hear from. From dropping bars to slaying horrific monsters, AMSI LitFest makes sure to have a little bit of everything! 📖🎤

That's a wrap on LitFest2025!🎤📖What an amazing array of writers and poets we had inspiring our students to dig into their creative voices, drop some bars or create some killer monsters. Big thanks to Ashley Hickson-Lovence Jennifer Killick Paul Cree & Zohra Nabi - it was a blast!🌟