Penguin has launched a new partnership with charity Speakers for Schools to deliver a series of Virtual Penguin Talks, with authors streamed live to thousands of students at school and at home across the UK and Ireland.
In these unusual and challenging circumstances, the Talks will address the most pressing and prominent issues facing 14- to 18-year-olds as a result of COVID-19, including how to manage your mental health and anxiety and how to prepare for a challenging future jobs market. Anyone can tune into the events, which will be live streamed on the Penguin Platform Youtube Channel, and all students watching will receive a free copy of the author’s audiobook.
Penguin Talks launched in 2018, taking authors from across the Penguin Random House family of authors into secondary schools to talk to young people about issues they care about – from the future of the world of work, to what it means to be successful – with authors including Michelle Obama, Stormzy, Scarlett Curtis, Margaret Atwood and Yuval Noah Harari.