This week I've been mainly reading, no. 283.

Ethel Carnie's early C20th novel of working class lives, Miss Nobody (1913/2013) is an exercise in self-aware working class writing. Covering the gamut from women's place in early C20th society, to industrial organisation, by way of the role of romantic novels for working class readers & poverty, this is a really compelling read, but also for its time innovative in its frequent shifts in narrative focus.

#books #politics #class #workers @books

One morning, when we were eating breakfast at the table, talking about local events and goings-on, they told me that the community college in Rock Springs was offering a sign language course through outreach, and asked me if I wanted to take the course with them. #see #language #class #survivor

http://survivorliteracy.com/2026/02/14/76-wide-open-spaces-3/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Taller de Git: la herramienta libre de colaboración por excelencia (+ install party!)

https://mobilizon.fr/events/98de9645-7a7c-40ea-860a-bc3420f3fdf4

A country of their own: writing Scotland as a woman
Ifeta Čirić-Fazlija & Lejla Mulalić

This monograph examines the works of five Scottish women authors: Kathleen Jamie, Liz Lochhead, Sharman Macdonald, Rona Munro, & Agnes Owens

Available free online via Open Access

@litstudies

https://ebooks.ff.unsa.ba/index.php/ebooks_ffunsa/catalog/book/125

#Scottish #literature #womenwriters #gender #region #class #workingclass #identity #OpenAccess

If you’d like to sign the petition calling on the UK government to amend the Equality Act 2010 to make social class a protected characteristic, you can do so here:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/752554

#class #SocialClass #EqualityAct #ClassMatters #UKPolitics #classwar #ClassCeiling #DefundCulture #WorkingClass

The print copes of Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal arrived today:

https://www.mediastudies.press/defund-culture-a-radical-proposal

The #book is published by mediastudies.press, and is available #openaccess under the CC4r (Collective Conditions for Re-Use commitment), so you don’t need to pay to download and read a copy.

It's also feels particularly timely in light of recent discussions around #class and #representation including the Class Ceiling report that came out the other week:

https://www.riseassociates.co.uk/downloads/ClassCeiling-Digital.pdf

And the #BBC review by Anne Morrison and Chris Banatvala, which highlight how it remains London-centric and skewed towards #middleclass

https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/thematic-review-of-portrayal-and-representation.pdf

#culturewar #classwar #ClassCeiling #DefundCulture
#ArtsAndCulture #WorkingClass
#media #london #universities
#he #academic #academia

I've been prepping my new class, Crafting Compelling Characters, and I am soooo excited. I've built in plenty of time for writers to try out the lessons I'm covering. I think it's going to be incredibly inspiring.

Authors we will look at together: Gail Honeyman, Walter Mosby, Brendan Slocumb, Nita Prose, and Matt Haig

Suggested reading: The Science of Storytelling, by Will Storr; and Outlining Your Novel, by K.M. Weiland

Register here: https://writer.org/event/crafting-compelling-characters/

#class