Hannah Chuwku and Nicola Williams Chaired by Fliss Gush

Penguin Roundhouse editor Hannah Chuwku and author Nicola Williams discuss the relationship between editor and writer. How do they work together to get the finished result and are things better today than they were in the past?

Williams’s 1997 novel Without Prejudice, a courtroom thriller about a 30-year-old barrister from a working class Caribbean background, has just been republished by Penguin Roundhouse in a collection of rediscovered works celebrating Black Britain called ‘Black Britain: Writing Back’ curated by Bernadine Evaristo. Williams and Chuwku are now working together on two further books. The two will discuss their relationship and how things have changed since Williams wrote Without Prejudice.

Williams started out as a barrister and has been a part-time crown court judge since 2010. She is a winner of the Cosmopolitan magazine Woman of Achievement Award. Chukwu works on literary fiction and non-fiction. She is the series editor for Black Britain: Writing Back.

Presented by the Society of Young Publishers.