Siobhan Dowd [SEP] cause of death
affecting children's lives conform with UN protocols.
Before her death from breast cancer, the Siobhan Dowd Trust, a registered charity, was established, wherein the proceeds from her literary work will be used to assist disadvantaged children with their reading skills.
Works.
Dowd edited three anthologies in the Threatened Literature Series for the Freedom to Write Committee of the PEN American Center: "This Prison Where I Live" (Cassell, 1996) and, jointly with Ian Hancock and Rajko Djuric, "The Roads of the
2013 UK print editions of the novels.
"A Monster Calls" (2011) originated with Siobhan Dowd, another writer with the same editor at Walker, Denise Johnstone-Burt. Before her August 2007 death, Dowd and Johnstone-Burt had discussed the story and Dowd was contracted to write it. Afterward, Walker arranged separately with Ness to write and Jim Kay to illustrate, and those two completed the book without meeting. Ness won the Carnegie and Kay won the companion CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal (established 1955)