Despite initiatives purporting to promote working-class writing, the publishing industry remains woefully out of touch with the needs, pressures, and dreams of life outside bourgeois Britain. Is another working-class literature possible?
Read Jake Trelease on the working-class writer. Link in bio.
Our next evening of culture and ideas is taking place on 4th July. I'll be talking to rail engineer Gareth Dennis about all things trains and infrastructure. Plus readings from Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Lyndsey Ayre and Jake Release. Also live music from Lucy Valentine!
The last one was great and we didn't even know what we were doing, so this one will be at least as good as that.
Tickets in bio etc.
Didnt do much in 2023 other than move in with the awld italian stallion. Just been chucked off two cancelled LNERs, gana boot someones head off. Merry Christmas.
