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Literary Festival & Events for Working Class Writers | Director @NatashaCarthew | Partners @HachetteUK @LondonBookFair @PenguinUKbooks @thebookseller
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04-03-2020 16:44:25
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You know when you're rich & you can afford to wait months to be paid for a thing you wrote for 100 quid cus probably you're playing at being a writer anyway? Being a #workingclass writer is the opposite of that - £100 pays rent, food, bills, it's income so please, PAY US ON TIME!
Massive 💙 to everyone who has read, reviewed & spread the word in regards to UNDERCURRENT, our #WorkingClass community is strong because of you - also the wonderful women who were integral to its journey, my incredible agent Juliet Pickering and talented editor harriet poland xx
Happy Paperback Publication Day, Natasha Carthew and UNDERCURRENT!
A powerful, soul-searching book about wild landscape, limited opportunity and breaking free; a really special memoir 🌊💙
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ESEA Lit Fest is back and better than ever – and we’re so proud to be sponsoring it again this year!
The festival is organised by ESEA Publishing Network, which aims to amplify the voices of East and South East Asian writers and to promote ESEA talent working across the publishing industry 🙌
My memoir publishes TODAY & I tell you what folks, there's a bloody storm brewing, cus I won't shut up about poverty, won't shut up about 2nd homes, won't shut up about library closures & financial disparity & I definitely won't shut up about our shit government #UndercurrentBook
Happy paperback birth/day to UNDERCURRENT and her mam Natasha Carthew - changing the landscape for all working-class writers one word, one bootprint at a time 🧡
It’s paperback publication day for Natasha Carthew’s #NeroBookAwards shortlisted UNDERCURRENT! Published by Coronet, it follows Natasha as she tries to make sense of an upbringing shaped by political neglect & a life defined by the beauty of nature.
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'A powerful story of social inequality' RAYNOR WINN
'By turns marvellous, moving and mesmerising' ANITA SETHI
Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards, UNDERCURRENT by Natasha Carthew is out today in paperback.
Get your copy: brnw.ch/21wIIqc
Originally published in 1936, Jack Hilton's recently unearthed 'Caliban Shrieks' is an essential addition to the proletarian literary canon of the early 20th century, writes Adelle Stripe caughtbytheriver.net/2024/04/caliba…
Any families near Idea Store in Bow & looking for something fun to do today why not head down to take part in Poetry, Portraits, Sculptures, GOLD! with Tower Hamlet's Poet in Residence adam kammerling
📆 Sat 6 April
🕓 2-4pm
👫 7-11 years
🔗 bit.ly/3POwixL
In case you missed it this week, for i newspaper I looked at the appalling rise in the number of pensioners being made homeless - up by 50 per cent in just four years
How does it feel to be facing your later years without secure housing?
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🚨Aspiring writers!🚨 The ClassNature nature writing prize is now open. Click below to enter
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Creative Pathways to Participation
ATD Ireland
Public Launch
Film showing, Poetry reading & Conversation
Tuesday 7th May 2pm
Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin
Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre in Arts Building
All Welcome #Poetry #spokenword #art #culture #Endpoverty #community
Resilience is not a thing you're gifted at birth or something that can be learnt, it's a thing you manifest to galvanise yourself from life's punches. Settle in for a wild 1hour ride as I chat to Jen Scotney about UNDERCURRENT - Out 11.04 with Hodder & Stoughton podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/res…
I set up ClassNature five years ago to burst the stereotype of what it means to be a Nature Writer - less of the posh white bloke, more of everybody else 👊🏾x Partners Octopus Publishing Hachette UK Sponsors Arvon Campaign for National Parks thebookseller.com/news/the-natur…
