Join Stephanie Flanders, Chair of Judges for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Writing, in discussion with Kate Clanchy, whose 'Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me' won this year's Orwell Prize for Political Writing, on her winning entry, giving young people the opportunity for creative writing

KATE CLANCHY
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me
Published by: Picador

Kate Clanchy is a writer, teacher and journalist. Her poetry collection Slattern won a Forward Prize. Her short story ‘The NotDead and the Saved’ won both the 2009 BBC National Short Story Award and the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize. Her novel Meeting the English was shortlisted for the Costa Prize. Her BBC 3 radio programme about her work with students was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes prize. In 2018 she was awarded an MBE for services to literature, and an anthology of her students’ work, England: Poems from a School, was published to great acclaim. In 2019 she published Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, a book about her experience of teaching in state schools for several decades, which won the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.

STEPHANIE FLANDERS
Chair of Judges for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020

Stephanie Flanders has been Senior Executive Editor for Economics at Bloomberg News and head of Bloomberg Economics since October 2017. She was previously Chief Market Strategist for Europe at J P Morgan Asset Management in London (201317) and both BBC Economics Editor and BBC Newsnight’s Economics Editor (200213). She was Senior Advisor and speech writer to US Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers (19972001). She has also been a reporter at the New York Times, the Principal Editor of the 2002 Human Development Report, an editorialwriter and economics columnist at the Financial Times, and an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and London Business School. She was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and Harvard University. In 2016 she was appointed Chair of the Inclusive Growth Commission for the Royal Society of Arts, which delivered its final report in March 2017. She is the Chair of Artichoke, a nonprofit arts production company in the UK and a trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust.