Talented writers from Swansea University will be inspiring budding authors to put ‘pen to paper’ with the launch of the Celebrating Swansea University Authors project.
Published authors in each College were invited to be filmed speaking about their selected book and what inspired them to write. The ten very interesting short videos are available on the new ‘Celebrating Swansea University Authors’ YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/CelebrateSUAuthors. Posters to promote the authors and their books have also been produced and will be on permanent display in the University’s Library.
The project, coordinated by the University’s Information Services and Systems Department, has been funded by the Welsh Government’s Reading Roadshow grant for local libraries to inspire reading in Wales.
Lori Havard, Head of Academic Support in the Information Services and Systems Department at the University said; “ We were delighted to have been awarded funding for our project which we have used to create videos and posters at very little cost.
“We hope that the stories told in the videos will encourage students to read the interesting publications which our staff have crafted and perhaps inspire them to go down the path of publishing their own research. If this pilot is successful we will be looking to use this project to promote other exciting literary works produced by our talented academics and staff.”
