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Inspire Presents: Book Talk
Welcome to Inspire Presents: Book Talk - an exciting video series where we bring you interviews with the authors you love.
Each interview is around 25 to 30 minutes long, so make yourself a coffee, relax and enjoy the YouTube videos below!
About Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Chevalier is the author of ten novels, including At the Edge of the Orchard, Remarkable Creatures and Girl with a Pearl Earring, an international bestseller that has sold over five million copies and won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award. Born in Washington DC, in 1984 she moved to London, where she lives with her husband and son.
About T.M. Logan
Bestselling author T.M. Logan was a national newspaper journalist before turning to novel-writing full time. His thrillers have sold more than 750,000 copies in the UK and are published in 15 countries around the world including the USA, South Korea, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Poland, Hungary and Serbia.
About Manjit Sahota
Originally from Nottingham, Manjit S Sahota is the co-founder of Poets Against Racism.
He has performed on stage and hosted Linton Kwesi Johnson and shared poetry and political debate with rapper Lowkey. Manjit enjoys the chance to bring his brand of poetry to spark conversation and engage with people from all cultures and backgrounds.
His poetry is political and poignant. Manjit is a poet with a gentle tongue who seeks address social issues through accessible poetry that brings people together.
He is currently working on Outreach for Nottingham Poetry Festival.
About Emma and the Emma Press...
Emma Dai'an Wright is a British-Chinese-Vietnamese publisher based in Birmingham. She worked in ebook production at Orion Publishing Group before leaving in 2012 to set up The Emma Press.
The Emma Press has published over 500 writers across more than 80 books, including themed poetry anthologies, single-author poetry and fiction chapbooks and books for children, with a growing list of translations. It was awarded funding from Arts Council England in 2020, as part of the Elevate programme.
Browse the Emma Press catalogue here
About Leanne . . .
Leanne Moden is a poet, performer and workshop leader, based in Nottingham.
She has performed at events across the UK and Europe, including WOMAD Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe, Sofar Sounds, Stanza Newcastle, the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, the Beverley Folk Festival, and Bestival on the Isle of Wight, as well as Prima Vista Festival in Estonia and Dia Mundial de la Poesia in Spain.
Leanne has given performances at the Fourth Wave Feminist Festival in Hackney Downs, Trinity College Cambridge, the Whitworth Museum in Manchester, and she even did a set as part of the TEDx Women talk at UCL in 2016. In 2019, she performed her first solo poetry show, Skip Skip Skip, as part of PBH's Free Fringe at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Her latest collection Get Over Yourself was published by Burning Eye Books in July
To buy a copy of Get Over Yourself - the new collection by Leanne Moden, visit her website.
About . . .
Mahsuda Snaith is a writer of novels and short stories. Her debut novel The Things We Thought We Knew was released in 2017 when she was named an Observer New Face of Fiction. Her second novel How to Find Home was chosen as a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book at Bedtime’. She is the winner of the S I Leeds Literary Prize and Bristol Short Story Prize 2014.
Mahsuda has led creative writing workshops in universities, hospitals, schools and a homeless hostel. She is a commissioned writer for the Colonial Countryside project and is currently working on her third novel. She lives in Leicester. Learn more about Mahsuda Snaith on her website and discover her writing course on her You Tube channel.
About . . .
Matthew Welton has published four poetry collections, all with Carcanet Press: The Book of Matthew, We needed coffee but..., The Number Poems and Squid Squad: A Novel. Nottingham born and raised, he now teaches Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham. His style has been widely described as unique, and he says,"With every poem I write I’m trying to make something immediate and gettable but which, at least to some extent, brings something new to the idea of what poetry might be."
In this interview Matthew mentions the Poetry Myriorama he created with Inspire. Find out more about the project, and see the resulting book, here.
Read more about Matthew Welton's work and publication on his website.
Crime Fiction a Special
Crime fiction is the most borrowed and bought genre in the UK. Watch our interviews with three major crime writers . . .
