🚨 The Lit in Colour Report Findings 🚨

- Just 1% of GCSE English literature students study a book by a writer of colour.

- No more than 7% study a book by a woman.

#LitinColour aims to help change that.

The solution to all this is to stop thinking like a Classical Liberal simpleton and start defending your own 'identity' instead.

#LitInColour

Did you know #LitInColour have a TikTok?

If you are interested in diversifying the English Lit curriculum - check it out!

tiktok.com/@litincolour

We’re thrilled to have won 100 books by authors of colour thanks to Penguin Books UK #LitInColour competition. We will also receive 30 copies of Sathnam Sanghera Empireland which will further provide a brilliant opportunity to explore important questions of race and identity in Britain

If you’re looking for support to diversify children’s reading in KS2, why not apply to take part in our research project? Participating schools will get a FREE pack of KS2 books by brilliant authors of colour. Places are limited, so apply to take part now! ow.ly/F4lc50Juerq

Delighted to announce that we were winners in the fabulous Lit in Colour competition ☺️

Thanks to Penguin Books UK and Tes for the amazing selection of books for our school library 🙌

Need more #SouthAsianWriters on your bookshelf? We've partnered with South Asian Heritage Month to deliver the 2021 Literature Programme and here's our booklist

Are you a school, council, or library? We have a pack with data from #LitInColour and a clickable version of all these titles for you 👇🏽

I was in my final term at university before I studied a single brown author. Proud to be involved with the #litincolour campaign run by Penguin Books UK Runnymede Trust. Letter from The Times and The Sunday Times today

💫Happy news!💫

I am delighted to join the judging panel for Penguin's #LitInColour Creative Student Prize, which is asking 14-18 y/o's to respond to the question - what place do books have in your world?

More details + information on how to enter here: penguin.co.uk/campaigns/lit-…

‘Reading for pleasure with diverse literature at its heart’ I love this #LitInColour Reading Reccomendations guide from Librarimum 📕🍉. It’s full of texts suitable for children in Reception to Year 6 with teaching ideas and story summaries. ⭐️📚 ow.ly/W0jI50H9goQ

Have you heard of #LitinColour ? It's our vital campaign we run in partnership with Runnymede Trust to support schools to make the teaching and learning of English literature more inclusive of writers of colour 📚️

See what we've done together so far 👇

Just found out that the Penguin Books UK #LitInColour application I made just before I left the school was successful 🥳 They had 1600 applications! Sad I won’t be there to see the books but glad to have contributed something to the school library on my way out!

Win over 100 books for your school! We've teamed up with @TwinklResources to give away over 57,000 books – including copies of The Good Turn by Sharna Jackson - to help schools build diverse and representative libraries. Apply here: penguin.co.uk/lit-in-colour/… #LitInColour

Calling all English teachers 📣

Are you interested in becoming a #LitInColour Pioneer?

Join us on Tuesday to find out more about the programme!

During this FREE event, you'll hear from existing Pioneers, and get to ask any questions.

Register today: bit.ly/3TsG6Or

Calling all Early Years educators! #LitinColour collaborated with Jamel.Carly on the first (incomplete) Lit in Colour book list for Early Years Foundation Stage. Download your copy now: bit.ly/3Q43RfV

Runnymede Trust

📢 Calling all teachers! Do you want to develop your confidence in teaching texts by authors of colour?

Join our #LitInColour & Tes for Teachers free conference for practical support from teachers & authors, in partnership with Runnymede Trust: bit.ly/43dgFUk

Graddon Vending We're also donating a vending machine, filled with books from our #LitInColour Reading Lists, to one UK state secondary school.

If you're a teacher or librarian who’d like to see this made available to your students, please nominate your school now: bit.ly/3G5Wy1C

Calling all Secondary English teachers 🚨

Want to learn skills & best practice to enable diversity in your classroom?

Sign up for Tes for Teachers & @NATEFeed’s free webinar on Jan 27, run in partnership w/ #LitInColour & Runnymede Trust.

Find out more: register.gotowebinar.com/register/11543…

📢Calling all teachers📢

#LitInColour partner Oxford Primary have released their Diversifying Reading Project findings, as well as a free toolkit to support primary schools in finding diverse books and reading recommendations!

Find out more: bit.ly/441gpZg

My desk really is a thing of beauty at the moment - look what arrived today!! #LitinColour Penguin Platform 🐧 #DiversityMatters