✨Frances Wong✨ How there exists a class of writers below the whole #workingclasswriters thing, that no one wants to talk about 🫢 (speaking as a 'poverty class' writer myself)
SEND US YOUR SCRIPTS! Still shed loads of time to get your work over to us! Deadline 31st October. #eatsleepreadrepeat #workingclasswriters
Our next #WorkingClassWriters blog post by Carmen Marcus discusses why 'just writing' isn't always a viable option for working class writers – read the whole blog here: bit.ly/2Qbz9kb
Only just started & already galvanised by and resonating with Natasha Carthew's beautiful, visceral prose in this memoir, which I know is going to be an incredible read. Rural poverty is a subject close to my heart and this book is so relevant #workingclasswriters #endpovertynow
The winner of the inaugural #NatureWritingPrize for #WorkingClassWriters , set up by Natasha Carthew and sponsored by The Countryman magazine & Little Toller 🇺🇦, is Angela Readman; read Angela’s winning entry exclusively on #TheCountryman website here t.ly/6xu7
Celia Hume
Delighted to receive these two beauties today & can’t wait to get stuck in - well done Gaylene Gould Nathan Evans #justindavid Paul McVeigh Writer Inkandescent🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✊🏿✊🏾 ♥️😘 #workingclasswriters
‘Know who you are and where you come from. Know what you want to say and why. Know what you need and how to get it. Know how to ask for help. Know at its root shame only means to cover and know that you have a right to be seen.’ #WorkingClassWriters thanks NWN for this platform
Thanks to Kerry Hudson and Aberdeen City Libraries for such an inspiring talk, and generous Q&A session this evening. Looking forward to reading Lowborn.
#WorkingClassWriters #workingclass #lowborn #writing
You don't need an #MA in #creativewriting to write. But I chose to, and today I'm celebrating the end of this
long, bumpy road! #workingclasswriters #amwriting
Days like yesterday have a surreal quality to them for me. I so want to say to the scrappy, unhappy little kid I was ‘you know that dream you have, that thing you tell people you’re going to be when you grow up? Well don’t worry. It’s gonna happen’ #writingcommunity
This one means a lot to me. Beyond honoured to be chairing an event at ClassFestival 📚 Kudos to Natasha Carthew for arranging such a fantastic event for #workingclasswriters 💙📖 Hachette UK Penguin Books UK Bristol Ideas #ClassFest21 BBC Front Row
Heartbreakingly brave & honest & oozing with dignity and pride. In awe as ever Kerry Hudson #workingclasswriters Thank you - again.
Don’t miss one of my favourite episodes of #OpenBook on BBC Radio 4 this afternoon at 4pm or whenever you like on BBC Sounds afterwards. BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Working Class Writing bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Love this 💜 Felt the same today as my train passed through Forest Gate. I thought of kid me on the platform, what she'd make of the lady in the floaty dress going off to talk about her book. These ARE the moments. Especially when you're not from much 📖💜 #workingclasswriters
I’ve written a piece for The Bookseller on the long history #classceilings facing #workingclasswriters thebookseller.com/blogs/rethinki… Lisa Blower Bluemoose Books Heidi James Sharon Duggal Professor Katy Shaw Anamik Saha Sandra van Lente
We are excited to be extending our collection this year to house The Agnes Owens Archive, reflecting the supportive friendship they shared. With thanks to Agnes’s son Gentleman of the West for all his support.
Click our link in bio to read Chitra Ramaswamy obituary on Agnes in The Scotsman
Publication Day! Proud to have a piece of my life immortalised by ink on paper. This is for all the Tower People who dream of more. And for my grandparents, who gave me a home when I needed it most. #CommonPeople #workingclasswriters
Congratulations to Angela Readman, and a huge thankyou to Natasha Carthew, The Countryman magazine, and @littletoller for supporting #WorkingClassWriters .
This is the best of news!
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Tremendous work from
The Alasdair Gray Archive Gentleman of the West
#agnesowens #scottishfiction #womenwriters #workingclasswriters
Douglas Stuart Damian Barr Zoe Strachan Rodge Glass
Exciting book post & proud to be in the list of supporters in this BEAUTIFUL book full of writers whom I admire ❤️
#amreading
#workingclasswriters
Great news folks! The brilliant BBC Front Row BBC Radio 2 will be featuring ClassFestival in the run up to the festival and interviewing some of the incredible writers that will be appearing, more soon! #ClassFest21 sponsored by Hachette UK Penguin Books UK Partner Bristol Ideas
Please share news of the 2021 #WorkingClassWriters Festival
Bristol Lit Fest Stokes Croft Writers NorthBristolWriters @bww_unchained UWE Creative and Professional Writing BSU Creative Writing Creative Writing at Bristol Uni NovelNights WriteClub Bristol Poetry Festival BathShortStoryAward
I’m feeling Hope, not just the light coming - this was the year #workingclasswriters got together and said ‘this is my story, this is what made me a writer’. To share that hope here’s Lorraine Gregory 💙’s writer’s journey -a gift to stoke your hope x nowriterleftbehind.wordpress.com/2018/12/20/an-…
Ok folks here’s the deal - 2021 the #WorkingClass Writers Festival is going to tour UK festivals, a bunch of well known wc writers will roll into town to join local #WorkingClass talent in readings & events, interested? Pls leave your name/area in the comments below ClassFestival
'whether the subject is darts, ageing, funerals or tinned peaches, there’s something to treasure every few pages.'
#CommonPeople #WorkingClassWriters
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Looking to speak to working class writers (within the next 24 hours) who have lost creative/writing work due to the pandemic & have had to take on other jobs to make up income
#journorequest #workingclass writers #workingclass