Award-winning author Manjeet Mann gave a talk to Year 8 about her new book Roar. Roar is a verse novel about a girl growing up in a privileged suburb of Delhi whose life is ruined when she is falsely accused of witchcraft. She joins a women’s activist group to seek justice and reclaim her life. In her talk Manjeet Mann talked about her inspiration for the story, real-life activist Sampat Pal and her Pink Sari Gang. She also explained that she likes to write verse novels because of the concision of the form and the scope to play with the white space on the page. She invited pupils to come up with their own Roar pledge and shared some techniques and prompts for this. All pupils received a copy of Roar through local bookshop Pickled Pepper and were able to have it signed by Manjeet Mann after the talk.