Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
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 (thespecialrelationship.net/), which was chosen for the International Literature Showcase in 2016. He was the creative director for ‘Moby-Dick Unabridged (http://mobydick.london/)‘, 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 (spreadtheword.org.uk/), a mentor for the Word Factory (thewordfactory.tv/), a fellow of the London Library’s T S Eliot Emerging Writer Programme and a Writer-in-Residence for First Story (firststory.org.uk/).
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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 (thespecialrelationship.net/), which was chosen for the International Literature Showcase in 2016. He was the creative director for ‘Moby-Dick Unabridged (http://mobydick.london/)‘, 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 (spreadtheword.org.uk/), a mentor for the Word Factory (thewordfactory.tv/), a fellow of the London Library’s T S Eliot Emerging Writer Programme and a Writer-in-Residence for First Story (firststory.org.uk/).
Hosted by Simon Jones.
Watch the East Anglian Book Awards 2021: youtube.com/watch?v=NpzaScW1Ad4 (youtube.com/watch?v=NpzaScW1Ad4)
Creative Writing Online courses: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/creative-writing-online (nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/creative-writing-online/)
Join our Discord community: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/join-our-discord-community (nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/join-our-discord-community/)
Make a donation: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/support-us (nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/support-us/)
Title music by Bennet Maples.
(video made with @headlinervideo)
