Latest Podcast
The Characters Are In Charge
Screenwriter and playwright, Theresa Ikoko, joins our host for ep 10, S2. Theresa shares her journey from winning awards for her first theatre play to writing for the screen.
CLICK HEREPodcast Episodes
Screenwriter and playwright, Theresa Ikoko, joins our host for ep 10, S2. Theresa shares her journey from winning awards for her first theatre play to writing for the screen.
Novelist, short story writer, editor and educator Leone Ross join our hosts for ep 9, S2. In this episode we learn that being a writer comes from the impulse to tell stories to try to make sense of things with sentences.
Joining us for Ep 8, S2 is writer and journalist, Patrice Lawrence. She is the author of the award-winning children and YA books, Orangeboy, Indigo Donut and Eight Pieces of Silver.
In this special podcast we meet three women - Verna Wilkins, Susheila Nasta and Margaret Busby - who, over the last half a century, wrote, published, edited, curated and blazed a trail for today's writers.
For Ep 7, S2 our hosts are joined by author, screenwriter, playwright, creative writing tutor and literary activist Courttia Newland. In this episode we learn about Courttia's drive for diversifying his writing using different genres and formats.
Our guest for Episode 6, S2 of The Amplify Project is award-winning poet, playwright & performer, graphic artist & designer, Inua Ellams.
Crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell MBE, joins hosts Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker for episode 5 in Series 2 of The Amplify Project.
BAFTA nominated writer Ben Tagoe joins our hosts Pauline Walker and Patricia Cumper for episode 4 of The Amplify Project.
For the third episode of this series, our hosts are joined by YA writer Dean Atta.
In this second episode in the series, our hosts are joined by one of the country's leading dramatists Roy Williams OBE FRSL
Introducing the first episode in this, the second series of The Amplify Project. Our podcast hosts Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by award-winning Nigerian British writer, Yomi Sode.
In this special podcast we speak to writers and academics attending the conference at Brighton University in July 2022.
The hosts of The Amplify Project, Pauline Walker and Patricia Cumper, passionately believe that the Black British canon is fragmented and rarely recognised particularly in the UK. In this episode, they reflect on the first series of The Amplify Project in which they interviewed 10 esteemed Black British writers for the page, screen and stage.
In this episode, writers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by playwright and academic Oladipo Agboluaje.
In this episode writers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by children’s writer and writer for theatre, TV, Radio and film, actress Trish Cooke
For this episode, writers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by award winning Caribbean poet, novelist, musician, and creative writing lecturer Anthony Joseph.
For this episode, writers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by poet Rachel Long. She tells us about being inspired by Jean “Binta” Breeze, wanting to write poems that sound and feel real and why she set up Octavia Poetry Collective.
For this episode, writers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by debut novelist Hafsa Zayyan, winner of the #Merky Books New Writer’s Prize.
For this episode, writers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by memoirist and biographer Colin Grant. He tells us about writing his memoir Bageye at the Wheel and how he was inspired to write about Jamaican greats Marcus Garvey, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer.
For this episode, writers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by Juliet Gilkes Romero who speaks about how her identity as a Black woman is integral to her writing.
For this episode writers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by award-winning author Alex Wheatle who shares with us how reading became his saviour.
For this episode, writers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by novelist and journalist Diana Evans.
For this episode, writers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by poet Nick Makoha.
Latest Tweets
;
#GiveawayAlert: to win a copy of #SmallWorlds, the lyrical and moving novel by @CalebANelson, longlisted for Jhalak Prize 24, RT + reply to this tweet by noon tomorrow (UK only).
#jhalakprize24 #giveaway #JhalakShowcase
Our Writers’ Award #WritingCompetition for Underrepresented Writers is officially open! ✨
It’s free to enter & 15 winners will receive £23k of prizes.
The theme this year is Reveal.
#WritingCommunity – send us your best work!
http://Bit.ly/CFWA2024
I'm so excited that CONFETTI is out this week! I had a fun morning with @HachetteKids, filming video clips and exclusive readings. Watch this space for more details of where to find them. 🎉💕 Pre-order the book here: https://geni.us/ConfettiPictureBook
Fabulous opportunity to learn from the best.
S2 ep. 10. Screenwriter Theresa Ikoko. “ I couldn't force my characters to say or do anything that they wouldn't say or do. I think it would break the world. I think it would rip the seams of it if I started doing that.” @TheresaIkoko
Fantastic.
New ep. “Speculative fiction. I think it is who I am. I build worlds on things that annoy me. It's taking a kernel of injustice then beginning to extrapolate from that into characters, amplifying magical experiences or strangeness that act as metaphors for the theme.” @leoneross
♦️New Episode♦️"I get frustrated there's still like a hierarchy with literary writing at the top and children’s books at the bottom". To hear more about this discussion, tune into our latest episode Mind Mapping with @LawrencePatrice 👉 https://buff.ly/3tP03q9
#TAPSeries2🎧
1/3
Margaret Busby was Britain's youngest and first Black female book publisher, co-founding the London based publishing house @AllisonandBusby in the 1960s, with Clive Allison.
In 1992, she edited Daughters of Africa and its 2019 follow up, New Daughters of Africa.
1/2
@WasafirMag is the UK’s leading magazine for international contemporary writing. During our #BHM2023 special, Titans of Black British Publishing ft its co-fiunder @Susheila_Nasta in conversation with our hosts, Margaret Busby & Verna Wilkins, we unearthed some fascinating
To all our listeners and followers, we'd appreciate if you could spare 2 mins to complete this short survey. Your feedback will provide us with valuable insight to support our application to become a registered charity. Here's the link:
Thank you!
The Amplify Project
The Amplify Project Podcast is a not-for-profit organisation. We are applying to become a charity and would like t...
buff.ly
Verna Wilkins is one of the women featured in our #BHM2023 special Titans of Black British Publishing. Her company Tamarind Books was launched in 1987 after a conversation with her 5-year old son who said he didn't see himself reflected in books. So she did something about it!
