Tonight: Attica Locke on power, prejudice and property

Tune in online for the live event and Q&A

'‘The most celebrated African-American writer of crime fiction. A consummate storyteller.’ – Financial Times

How can writers challenge the unequal distribution of power and authority in the world today?

Join us tonight at 7.30pm BST on YouTube as Attica Locke, award-winning US author and screenwriter for Little Fires Everywhere, delivers a powerful new commission. She will draw from her own career as a bestselling novelist to reflect on how stories and characters can pull back the veil on some forms of hidden power.

The event will be followed by a live Q&A where you can submit your questions to Attica directly.

Friday 11 September, 7.30pm BST, YouTube, free

'I frequently talk about crime fiction as being about the illusion of scarcity. It has the ability to lay bare the sickness in the idea that there is not enough. Not enough land, not enough land...not enough money. I want & you got, so I’m gonna do something violent to take it.'

– Attica Locke

Part of Noirwich Crime Writing Festival, a partnership between the National Centre for Writing and the University of East Anglia