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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In this National Centre for Writing video, Hannah Chukwu, assistant editor at Penguin Random House’s imprint Hamish Hamilton, speaks about receiving submissions from agents, pitching, and the editing process for the literary fiction and nonfiction authors she has worked with, including Bernardine Evaristo, Arundhati Roy, and Zadie Smith.
Tags: Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Hannah Chukwu | Hamish Hamilton | Penguin Random House | editors | editing | National Centre for Writing | 2021 -
In this Waterstones video, Bernadine Evaristo introduces her novel Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton, 2019), which she describes as “fusion fiction” and a “celebration of Black womanhood,” and the books that influenced her as a young writer. Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other, sharing the prize with Margaret Atwood for The Testaments (Chatto & Windus, 2019).
Tags: Fiction | Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other | Hamish Hamilton | 2019 | Booker Prize | Waterstones | Audre Lorde | Ntozake Shange | Derek Walcott -
“If you look at the Greek myths, they’re always about unhappy families; Aristotle told us that politics starts in the family—I think that’s true.” Deborah Levy, whose most recent novel, Hot Milk (Hamish Hamilton, 2016), is shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, talks about the elements of family in Hamlet that have always haunted her. This video is part of the Hay Festival: Talking About Shakespeare video series celebrating William Shakespeare’s four hundredth anniversary.
Tags: Man Booker Prize | William Shakespeare | Hamish Hamilton | Hamlet | 2016 | Deborah Levy | Hot Milk | Hay Festival | Fiction -
In this video, Hamish Hamilton, the distinguished British publishing house founded in 1931 and now an imprint of Penguin, reveals archival footage of personal letters, memos, and scraps of paper that capture the humanity of prestigious authors such as George Orwell, J. D. Salinger, Albert Camus, and Jean Paul Sartre.
Tags: Not Genre-Specific | Penguin | Hamish Hamilton