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A support network for working class/underprivileged writers. Championing underrepresented writers in the publishing industry. Managed by @eveainsworth

Joined February 2022
Hey @workingclassrep - I don't suppose you could please share this 🙏
Hello, I have a ticket for @stockportnoir this Saturday that I'd like to donate to someone from a working class, low income household. If you fit the bill, please drop me a DM. Retweets appreciated as I'd hate to see the ticket wasted! @SerenityRomiley
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What a fabulous opportunity for under- represented querying writers! 📚📚 #WritingCommunity #amquerying
The Greene Door Project is back! Greene & Heaton are reopening applications from writers currently under-represented in publishing to receive a Zoom feedback session from a G&H Agent! Follow the link below to read more about Greene Door: #GreeneDoor greeneheaton.co.uk/the-green…
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Do apply for this if you qualify. It’s a fantastic course! #WriterCommunity #amediting #amwriting
We’re pleased to announce applications are now open for our popular Self-Edit Your Novel Course bursary! To apply, send a sample or first chapter of your work, along with your reasons for applying, by 3 March. 🔗 tinyurl.com/jwselfeditbursar… @DebiAlper @emma_darwin
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A creative writing course in 2 minutes. The best.
Your two minutes of inspiration of the day
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We're thrilled to announce that the #DHAOpenDay is back this November! The Open Day aims to demystify the publishing industry and support under-represented writers develop their work. We're inviting writers of literary and commercial fiction for adults to apply.
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Huge congrats to everyone ! What a shortlist So gutted I won’t be at Harrogate this year 😭 😭 😭
We're thrilled to announce the #TheakstonAward shortlist 2023! Congratulations to all our shortlisted authors 🥳 Discover the shortlist here 👇 bit.ly/TOPCNOTY2023 @MWCravenUK @FionaAnnCummins @ellygriffiths @doug_johnstone @GillianMAuthor @RuthWareWriter #theakstonscrime
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I’ve read 3 badly written celebrity fiction books recently. 3 books that wouldn’t have got a publishing deal but for the name on the cover.That’s 3 advances that could have gone to real writers who could have done something amazing. 3 books so bad the editor couldn’t save them 🙁 – at South East, England
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Join us at #WoWFEST23 online with bestselling author @KitdeWaal as she talks about her new memoir Without Warning & Only Sometimes. Hear about her working-class roots & how they have influenced her writing 📅16th May, 7:30pm. 💻Online Tickets only £5 👉 bit.ly/41priSY
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Similar but (slightly) different cover for the paperback of No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy, published on 4 May, 2023 by Canongate. Big thanks to @BenMyers1 and @themarkrad for their kind words. Still wearing that ace jumper.
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One of my aims for 2023 is to provide as many opportunities for people as I can. It's that simple. #HNY
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Dialect is an inclusive platform & we've been seriously searching for writers of diverse heritage who live in the south west to work with on a new project - please can you let me know if this is you or if you would recommend any writer friends who might fit the bill? TIA 🙏
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I’m just interested to know how many working class literary agents there are? Are you one? Do you know of one? Please can you raise your hand! ❤️🙏
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📣🧵 Attention writers: This is a call for pitches. We want to commission (paid!) features on housing, immigration, racism, inequality & the environment. Appalling landlords? Bring them. Inner workings of the Home Office? Give em here. Evidence of systemic racism? Write it up...
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Bea on the Ball @workingclassrep – at Lewes, England
Year 6 were visited by author Paul Sheppard @Shameus4 today, who talked about his book #beaontheball and delivered a workshop. The children asked interesting and relevant questions and then challenged themselves to write creatively about a real life experience. @Cabotfederation
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Working class library. First two boxes of books selected from around the house ready to go to the new bookshelves (being made) in Portland. Chloe and i have really enjoyed discussing what a working class book is?! @wcstudies
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On 14 March we’re hosting our first Joffe Books Pitch Party! 🎉 We’re looking for our next bestselling writer – and it could be YOU! Pitch your book using #JBPitch for the chance to WIN an online consultation with a member of the JB team. More details at: joffebooks.com/jbpitch
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Had my cry and now I'm plotting. Idk if anyone would join in but I want to do an online, month long disability pride event celebrating books and authors. Engage with this post if you're in?
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The sad thing about being a working class author in this industry, is feeling like you can never fit in. You can either pretend to be something you’re not, or be your authentic self and risk being isolated or misunderstood I’ve always chosen the latter, but it’s not always easy.
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Replying to @workingclassrep
Not an agent, but we work directly with writers. Non-fiction only. (Psst...1/2 of the company is WC & fights for WC voices in the States.)
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The course will conclude with each participant producing a final short story which will be published in a Comma Press ebook. Don't miss this exciting and enlightening journey into the world of short fiction! #shortfiction #publicationopportunity eventbrite.co.uk/e/short-sto…
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