Poets & Writers Theater
Every day we share a new clip of interest to creative writers—author readings, book trailers, publishing panels, craft talks, and more. So grab some popcorn, filter the theater tags by keyword or genre, and explore our sizable archive of literary videos.
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“I hope that people find this a hopeful story, because that’s ultimately what I want it to be.” In this Penguin Random House video, Eve J. Chung discusses her debut novel, Daughters of Shandong (Berkley, 2024), and how it was inspired by her grandmother who lived through the Chinese Civil War.
Tags: Fiction | Eve J. Chung | Daughters of Shandong | Berkley | Penguin Random House | 2024 -
“It’s important to be a reader because it can help make you a better person.” Anissa Gray, author of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls (Berkley, 2019), talks about the importance of reading, offers advice to aspiring writers, and explains why she does not loan out books in this interview for Penguin Random House.
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“In the days since her arrest, Mary Ripley has not slept—ironic, since sleeping is precisely what she was doing on the night her landlady was murdered.” In this short animation, Christina Dalcher narrates her seven-sentence story, “The Burden of Proof.” Dalcher is the author of the debut novel, Vox (Berkley, 2018), which takes place in a dystopian United States where women are only allowed to speak one hundred words per day.
Tags: Fiction | Christina Dalcher | Vox | Berkley | 2018 | animation | short film | 7 Sentence Stories | The Burden of Proof | Penguin Random House
