Recruiting now: volunteer mentors! If you think the role of mentor could be for you, join our bunch of friendly, likeminded volunteers looking to use their writing skills to make a real difference.
The Arkbound Foundation @arkbounduk have a new writing project for prisoners and ex-offenders. The theme of the writing is open but the project is particularly looking for accounts that shed new perspectives on the justice system & rehabilitation. More at:
https://t.co/MYYBZMZBoA
Only 3 days left to support Arkbound's Crowdfunder to provide better access to publishing. Indies are leading the move towards a diverse industry and they need your help!
Please, if you can, donate here: https://t.co/wSpW5bTJFi
I wrote about the warped framing of @AOC as disruptive, norm-shattering and savvy and how it contrasts with the invisibility of Yoho’s opportunism and ambition: https://t.co/hcG5hrt1lz
What's very sad is that a lot of the venues who were so kind to me and featured in my magazine are now shut permanently due to the effects of Covid.
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Hendersons 😢
Diversity in the publishing industry is so important. Minority voices need a platform, which is provided by @arkbounduk. We can only continue to do this work with your support. Please, if you can, donate to our Crowdfunder and help us work towards an inclusive industry.
Been a pleasure to work with @johnstone_shane on The Gods of Frequency.
He frames his discussion of the working class struggle in a wonderfully funny and refreshing way. If you like books that are wonderful and funny then order your copy now from @arkbounduk
Happy publication day!! As Shane himself put it, ‘Buik is ready. Ye kin buy it here it ye want.’ What more is there to say than BUY YOUR COPY FROM https://t.co/aKnFxUG547 TODAY and get reading! 📗📗📗
2/4 An important step to overcoming this is through education, reading widely and understanding white privilege. The publishing industry is vital in aiding tolerance and equity.
@samatlounge Great resource! Please can you add @arkbounduk, a charity publisher based in Bristol and Glasgow and dedicated to diversifying the industry.
1/ 2 If anyone works in publishing/knows anyone in publishing I would love if they could please fill out my survey for a dissertation project investigating the working-class accessibility to the industry.
https://t.co/j8n2l6oSNO