Writing Regency Fiction with Amita Murray

Welcome back to The Race and Regency Pod.Today, we are joined by Amita Murray. Amita is a writer based in London, by way of Delhi and California. Her first novel, The Trouble with Rose, came out from Harper Collins in 2019, and her short fiction has won the SI Leeds Literary Prize, and has appeared in Wasafiri, SAND Berlin, the Berkeley Fiction Review and others. She's held writerly residencies with Leverhulme/University College London and Plymouth University/Literature Works, and has taught advanced fiction at the University of East Anglia and CityLit London. She was named runner-up for the 2022 CRIMEFEST scholarship for authors of color. We discuss her work, paying special attention to her historical romance trilogy set in Regency England, where the mixed-race Marleigh sisters each go through a journey of adventures and love. Amita also shares some tips for young aspiring writers on her Instagram @amitamurrayFind more of her work on www.amitamurray.com.To learn more about the Race and Regency Lab, visit https://www.raceandregency.org/The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together. Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.