The new imprint, MoffiMedia Books, comes into being on the 20th February, 2020, with the launch of Dancing On Tables, a novella by local award winning writer Nigel Moffatt, who has written for television, radio and stage. His last production was Musical Youth at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre about the boy band who went to number one in the charts during the eighties with their hit song Pass The Dutchie.
Nigel’s intention is to get the imprint off the ground by publishing his own works before embarking on discovering talented writers in the Midlands who have been marginalised by large publishing houses with a focus on producing commercially driven work, much of which stifles the art and severely restricts creativity.
Not satisfied with writing for the media and setting up his latest venture Nigel has also ran writing groups in Walsall at the Central Library, The Drum in Aston, the MAC at Cannon Hill Park, and at Shrewsbury Prison, bringing the likes of Labi Siffre, Jean Binta Breeze, and Benjamin Zephaniah to perform at these venues. He strongly believes that there is immense talent in the region that needs to be harnessed, especially at a time of “austerity” and diminished arts’ funding.
“We can wait for ever for someone to knock the door and offer us our dream, or we can use our own initiative to grasp it. It’s not about success or failure, which is in any case impossible to measure, if they are worth measuring, it’s about participating, self- gratification, in something we strongly believe in,” said Nigel.
Dancing On Tables is available from the 20th February, 2020, from Amazon and bookshops across the country.
“By supporting each other there is the possibility of survival, without it we are nothing,” concluded the author.
