Laura Maw

writing ORDINARY TREASURE: RADICAL PORTRAITS OF WORKING-CLASS WOMEN WRITERS (Virago, 2026) / essays @GrantaMag, @NewStatesman, @TheWhiteReview / rep @serenadams

[Laura Maw @laurajmaw]

I’m writing my dream book!! ❤️‍🔥 It’s called ORDINARY TREASURE: RADICAL PORTRAITS OF WORKING-CLASS WOMEN WRITERS. It’s about the intersections of class, work, and literature — and how to make art without the luxury of wealth, time, or a room of one’s own.

[Laura Maw @laurajmaw]

I'm jumping ship - find me here 🌞https://t.co/Z03mWRuhWL

[Laura Maw @laurajmaw]

@egabbert "Some essays have rigidity of structure and not enough mood; some essays are all mood in shapeless space. [...] The veil of order is structure; the chaos that shimmers, the light that moves inside the text, is mood. Mood moving through structure may be what gives essays energy"

[Laura Maw @laurajmaw]

“Work on the site, stay on the site, let the site tell you its secrets.”

I love this essay by @egabbert https://t.co/bifuZWeJDE

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@IsabellaENFord @LivIvanov congratulations!! ✨

[Laura Maw @laurajmaw]

Shelagh Delaney, Ann Quin, Buchi Emecheta and Andrea Dunbar above my desk (& ORDINARY TREASURE in the NYRB for the @silversfound announcement!) 🕊️

[New Writing North @NewWritingNorth]

"People should not have to leave the north-east to live their dreams," says our Chief Exec @nwnclaire in @guardian this weekend.

Walk through our plans to create a centre for writing and publishing in Newcastle 👇
https://t.co/EnG2JBbiit

[Women's History Network - at Bluesky and LinkedIn @WomensHistNet]

New on the blog!

Laura Maw (@laurajmaw) explores working class women writers.

Her piece offers a snap shot on her exciting new book 'Ordinary Treasure: Radical Portraits of Working Class Women Writers' which will be published in 2026.

https://t.co/6H1qWcjjxJ

[Laura Maw @laurajmaw]

@HettaHowes @BloomsContinuum @britishlibrary ahh congratulations Hetta!!

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@kdc_lewin @BookBrunch @ViragoBooks ah thank you Katie!! 🤍

[Laura Maw @laurajmaw]

@_amina_khan love you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[BookBrunch @BookBrunch]

.@ViragoBooks has announced Ordinary Treasure: Radical Portraits of Working-Class Women Writers, a 'fiercely intelligent, warm and stylish' debut by @laurajmaw

https://t.co/gjUPxGLsCm (£)

[Laura Maw @laurajmaw]

I’m so grateful to @serenadams for finding this book a perfect home with Anna Kelly at Virago (!), and to @silversfound for awarding me (and this book) a Silvers Grant ❤️

Ordinary Treasure published by @ViragoBooks in 2026 🕊️

[Laura Maw @laurajmaw]

I’m writing my dream book!! ❤️‍🔥 It’s called ORDINARY TREASURE: RADICAL PORTRAITS OF WORKING-CLASS WOMEN WRITERS. It’s about the intersections of class, work, and literature — and how to make art without the luxury of wealth, time, or a room of one’s own.

[Laura Maw @laurajmaw]

@_amina_khan ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Laura Maw @laurajmaw]

@_amina_khan omg these are all so nice (and all true ❤️) 🥺🥺🥺

[The Common Press Bookshop @TheCommonPress]

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[Nostos @NostosLit]

- Anaïs Nin, The early diary of Anaïs Nin

[Regina Rosenfeld @ReginaRosenfeld]

Nikita Gill 🔥

[Laura Maw @laurajmaw]

cheerfully soldiering on with a messy draft that I know I'll need to correct later

[Laura Maw @laurajmaw]

out of office 🕊️