Jarred McGinnis on blending fact and fiction in The Coward

On the show today we have Jarred McGinnis, talking about his debut 2021 novel ‘The Coward’. It's a fictional story with a protagonist also called Jarred, and in talking with Peggy Hughes on this podcast they unpick the curious boundary between fact and fiction in the book. Jarred is the co-founder of The Special Relationship, which was chosen for the International Literature Showcase in 2016. He was the creative director for ‘Moby-Dick Unabridged‘, a four-day immersive multimedia reading of Herman Melville’s ‘Moby-Dick’ at the Southbank Centre, involving hundreds of participants. His short fiction has been commissioned for BBC Radio 4 and appeared in respected journals in the UK, Canada, USA and Ireland. He is or has been an Associate Writer for Spread the Word, a mentor for the Word Factory, a fellow of the London Library’s T S Eliot Emerging Writer Programme and a Writer-in-Residence for First Story. Hosted by Simon Jones. Watch the East Anglian Book Awards 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpzaScW1Ad4 Creative Writing Online courses: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/creative-writing-online/  Join our Discord community: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/join-our-discord-community/ Make a donation: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/support-us/ Title music by Bennet Maples.