We showcase the exceptional talent of our inaugural cohort of The London Library Emerging Writers Programme.
This event is available to view as a recording until 13 June. Tickets can be purchased below.
As The London Library Emerging Writers Programme enters its third year, we showcase the exceptional talent of the inaugural cohort with readings from From the Silence of the Stacks, New Voices Rise, an anthology of work produced throughout their year with the Library. Featuring poets Isabelle Baafi and Helen Bowell, novelists Amber Medland and L M Dillsworth, short story writer Deborah Torr, playwright Carmina Bernhardt and hosted by author, comedy screenwriter and London Library Ambassador John O’Farrell.
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Carmina Bernhardt is a writer for film and stage, an actor, director, and acting coach. She completed her first full-length play during The London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme.
Helen Bowell is a London-based poet and arts administrator. She is co-founder of Dead [Women] Poets Society, and an alumna of The Writing Squad, the London Writers Awards and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective.
Amber Medland read English Literature at Cambridge and has an MFA (Fiction) from Columbia University in New York. Her debut novel, Wild Pets, will be published by Faber & Faber in Summer 2021.
Deborah Torr is a South London writer and UEA graduate. Shortlisted for the Sunderland Short Story Award, Deborah has words in Reflex Press, Fictive Dream and Fiction Kitchen Berlin.
Isabelle Baafi is a poet and writer from London. She was awarded the 2019 Vincent Cooper Literary Prize. Her debut pamphlet, Ripe, was published in Autumn 2020 by ignitionpress.
Lianne Dillsworth lives and works in London. In 2018 she graduated from Royal Holloway’s MA with distinction. Her debut novel, Age of Monsters, will be published by Windmill in spring 2022.
John O'Farrell has written for shows including Spitting Image, Grumpy Old Men and Have I Got News For You. His humorous non-fiction books and novels have been translated into around 25 languages and adapted for radio and television and include The Man Who Forgot His Wife and An Utterly Impartial History of Britain.
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