This online event will appear at the bottom of this page ready to press play 6pm on 9 October.

The book can be purchased here: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/fire-exit-morgan-talty/7667556?aid=12936&ean=9781916751040

From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation…  Join Morgan Talty as he talks about his debut novel, Fire Exit – a deeply layered story of family and bloodlines, culture and inheritance and what, if anything, we owe one another.    

Morgan Talty, a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation, is the author of the bestselling, award winning and critically acclaimed story collection Night of the Living Rez.   He is an Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono.  He lives in Levant, Maine. 

“Utterly consuming. . . . Fire Exit absolutely smolders.”—Tommy Orange

Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose novels, Butterfly Fish and Curandera and short story collections, Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch, have won and been nominated for multiple awards. Formerly the Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature in 2021. She is the director and founder of Black to the Future festival.

The event goes live on the date and time advertised in the festival programme – see the bottom of the event page for the link to the film