There is still time to enter the 2025 Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers. This unique prize returns for a sixth year with support of Gaia Books (an imprint of Octopus Publishing) and the Arvon. Closing date: 25 April 2025 Find out more: brnw.ch/21wRLrD

"Middle-class tourists wash in and out of their second homes with bags of premium cocaine — and then bugger off again. Those left behind are not so lucky." Natasha Carthew on drugs in Cornwall: dispatch-media.com/cornwalls-perf…

I worked on this project for 3 years. It was a great time working with Mike and Sam Friedman & the others on the research. We need to talk about class again. British Sociology over 10 years as lost its way.

We at One Family Ireland support the ATD Ireland #Addthe10th campaign One-parent families experience among the highest rates of #poverty in Ireland. It's time to make it illegal to discriminate based on someone's socio-economic background. #EndChildPoverty #Endpoverty

ATD Ireland is proud to invite you all to our #LeaveNoOneBehind Project Launch 23rd April 2pm film exhibition & interactive workshop Unit18 (Trinity College Dublin in the Community) located 50 metres from the junction of Pearse St & Macken St atdireland.ie/wp/leave-no-be…

We grew up in poverty, my dad left when I was 6 & my mum worked 4 jobs to put food on the table & pay rent on our tiny 1 bed flat; everything was borrowed including books from the mobile library, without those lifeline books I wouldn't be the writer I am today #SupportLibraries

You know MAGA wrote it because they can't spell for shit.

As an #IrishTraveller a member of one of the most discriminated against communities in Irish society & one protected under the 9 grounds of Irish Equality Legislation; I stand in solidarity with #AddThe10th & this missing ground, discrimination based on socioeconomic identity💪👊

📣 Announcement! We’re excited to share the 16 outstanding writers who have been longlisted for #Discoveries 2025 🌟 Each of these talented voices brings something unique to the page: bit.ly/3EIyvZk Run by #womensprize, Curtis Brown Creative, Curtis Brown Books and Audible UK 🎧

Only doing one gig in the motherland this year but it's a good one - Lost Gardens of Heligan #Cornwall 14th June - tickets are selling out fast - details: heligan.com/events/events-…

It will be no fun without you.

Working class representation in the creative industries is at the lowest level in a decade. The Equity Class Network Manifesto is a blueprint to change this - from free childcare to making class a protected characteristic. equity.org.uk/campaigns-poli…

"Mo Chara’s real problem is that the message he put out landed. Working-class people aren’t meant to speak like this, organise like this, or connect struggles across borders like this. That’s what scares them. While Mo Chara stands in the dock for allegedly waving a flag, those

SPEAKER INTRO: We're pleased that Natasha Carthew will be speaking at our Belonging conference on 05 July! 🤩 Natasha is the author of Undercurrent: A Cornish memoir of poverty and resilience based on her experience of growing up in Cornwall.

I feel sorry for the fans, I feel sorry for Cornwall and I feel fucking angry for us writers who, despite lived-experience of extreme poverty, homelessness etc, cut out our own hearts with a blunt knife and place it into the hands of others, sometimes for very little money or

Whilst we're on the subject of authentic voices and stories, try my Nero Book Awards shortlisted memoir on for size #Cornwall #workingclass

Looking for nature in the city! Who's ready for my nature writing prize rooftop party Hachette UK towers tonight? #workingclass

Great article on the shitshow that is the Salt Path - so many of us writers rip our hearts out in the name of good 'honest' memoir writing, the kind of writing that is written with authentic voice at its roots, don't see near the success of this book Why? Because our stories are

"You shouldn't judge a book by it's cover.. if you see someone struggling in the street don't judge them, help them. In the future this needs to stop #Addthe10th & make all discrimination illegal !" atdireland.ie/wp/atd-ireland…

Heading off to a secret location to see in the tail end of summer I've spent the last ten weeks working on final edits for the new fiction, every minute of every single day - through birthdays and weddings and weekends and parties I've had my notebook in my hand and my mind on