two posters on a wall: one is black and has lots of white letters in chaos, adverstising an event about Black German writer May Ayim. The second poster has a yellow background and a colourful illustration of Black British Writer Bernardine Evaristo, a Black Woman with natural afro hair. The poster advertises the British Council Literature Seminar.

British Council Literature Seminar 2023

4. July 2023GuestEvents#BritLit23, #BritLitBerlin, Bernardine Evaristo, British Council, class, Daljit Nagra, Joelle Taylor, Kit de Waal, UK, Wayne Holloway Smith

Our guest author Frauke Harms attended the 2023 British Council Literature Seminar and shared her experience with the Literary Field Kaleidoscope. As with so many events since the pandemic, the Literature Seminar 2023 organised by the British council took place for the first time in person again this year. Centred […] Read more

Common People –
“We’ve had enough and we are coming”

1. May 2020Sandra van LenteNews, Reviewarts funding, class, Common People, diversity, industry, Kit de Waal, literature development organisations, working-class

(The quote in the title is from the poem “Tough” by Tony Walsh (aka Longfella), published in Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers, ed. by Kit de Waal (Unbound, 2019).) On International Workers Day 2019, the anthology Common People was launched (first in a pub, then at the […] Read more

black and white photo of a London street

Caution. Reading in Progress! Class

12. October 2019Gesa StedmanNews, Reading in Progress, ReviewAll Among the Barley, Alys Conran, Anna Burns, Darren McGarvey, Kelly Hudson, Kit de Waal, Lowborn, Melissa Harrison, Milkman, My Name is Leon, Pigeon, poverty industry, Poverty Safari, representation; class; review

Gesa Stedman takes a look at a recent trend in publishing, Read more