An interview with novelist Kit De Waal: Write On! Audio Weekly

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   Our interview this month is with British / Irish writer and broadcaster Kit De Waal.  Born in Birmingham to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, she initially pursued a career in law working alongside foster carers and the social care sector before turning to writing and broadcasting. Her debut novel ‘My Name Is Leon’ was shortlisted for the Costa Book award. Her short fiction has been nominated for - and won - numerous prizes.  Soon after the publication of ‘My Name Is Leon’ she began working on The Kit De Waal Creative Writing Scholarship which provides a fully funded place for a disadvantaged writer on the creative writing MA course at Birkbeck College in London   The interviewer is Iole Dexter who was alongside Write On!’s editor Madeleine White   If you’d like to find out more about Kit De Waal and her writing you can visit her website here https://www.kitdewaal.com/   To read Iole Dexter’s blog go here https://iolewrites.com/   We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:  https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/   Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.   This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England