Musa Okwonga, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Kate McNaughton, Rory McLean – the list can be continued easily. All these writers grew up in Britain, or have close ties with the UK, but they live or have lived in Berlin Read more
Publication
“Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing” Studie – jetzt auch auf Deutsch
Es ist soweit: rechtzeitig zur Frankfurter Buchmesse erscheint heute die deutsche Übersetzung des „Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing” Reports! Denn bei allen Unterschieden, die es zwischen den Buchbranchen in Großbritannien und Deutschland gibt, so sind doch auch viele Parallelen auszumachen, gerade was die Unterrepräsentation von Schwarzen Autor*innen und Autor*innen of Colour […] Read more
Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing – Now Go Out and Make a Difference
On 23 June 2020, Dr Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths, University of London) and I launched our report called Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing. We spent the previous year interviewing 113 people in publishing and bookselling, and we set out to challenge the ways ‘diversity’ was talked about. And we wanted to find […] Read more
Nasty, Impressive, Moving, and Inspiring Women
On this year’s International Women’s Day, Sandra van Lente writes about the essay collection Nasty Women and the publishing house that produced it: the independent Scottish publisher 404ink, founded and run by Laura Jones and Heather McDaid. I would like to use this year’s International Women’s Day to draw your […] Read more
Brexit and the Cultural Sector
Before we take a break from blogging and go on a well-deserved summer break, we would like to draw your attention to our latest project; a collaborative ebook on the effects of the Brexit vote on the UK’s cultural sector and its agents: “It’s not just the economy, stupid! Brexit […] Read more
