{"id":52649,"date":"2026-03-24T18:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/?post_type=event&#038;p=52649"},"modified":"2026-03-24T18:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T18:36:23","slug":"patrice-lawrence-the-elemental-detectives-8-12yrs","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/event\/patrice-lawrence-the-elemental-detectives-8-12yrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrice Lawrence: The Elemental Detectives | 8-12yrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join award-winning writer Patrice Lawrence to learn about her critically acclaimed series The Elemental Detectives.<br \/>\nExpect surprises at every turn as Patrice\u202fdiscusses the real-life inspirations behind her work, the pride and vibrancy of mixed heritage, and shares invaluable tips on crafting your own compelling story.<\/p>\n<p>About Patrice Lawrence<br \/>\nPatrice Lawrence writes for children and adults mostly with a hint of crime. Her books have been shortlisted for the Costa Children&#8217;s Award, Nero Book Awards and Carnegie Medal, and won a number of awards including the Waterstones Children&#8217;s Book Prize for Older Fiction, the Bookseller YA Book Prize, the Crime Fest Award for Best Crime Novel for Young Adults (twice), the Jhalak Children&#8217;s and Young Adult Prize for Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour and the the Little Rebels Award. Patrice has been awarded the MBE for services to literature in the Queen&#8217;s Birthday Honours list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brightonfestival.org\/whats-on\/Xm3-patrice-lawrence-the-elemental-detectives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/brightonfestival.org\/whats-on\/Xm3-patrice-lawrence-the-elemental-detectives\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":52795,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"event_categories":[1028,930,1431],"class_list":["post-52649","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_categories-book","event_categories-family-fun","event_categories-storytelling"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-05-09 18:34:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"event_categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/52649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/52649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52803,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/52649\/revisions\/52803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/brighton-hove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_categories?post=52649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}