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Copyright Nathan Connolly 2017

All rights reserved.

The right of Nathan Connolly to be identified as the editor of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Dead Ink, an imprint of Cinder House Publishing Limited.

Hardback ISBN 9781911585367

Printed and bound in Great Britain

by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc.

www.deadinkbooks.com

for my mum and every late night

Contributors

Abondance Matanda is an arts and culture writer and poet. Her home city, London, informs the subversive, colloquial voice she uses to dissect themes and identities like girlhood, class, blackness and language. Other influences range from Ms Dynamite to Toni Cade Bambara to old school Congolese music videos.

Alexandros Plasatis is an ethnographer who writes fiction in English, his second language. His work has appeared in UK and American anthologies and magazines. He is a volunteer at Leicester City of Sanctuary, where he helps find and develop new creative talent within the refugee and asylum seeker community.

Andrew McMillan was born in South Yorkshire in 1988. His debut collection was the multi-award winning physical (Jonathan Cape, 2015), a second collection is due in 2018. He is a senior lecturer at MMU.

Ben Gwalchmai is a maker, worker, writer who was Welsh National Operas writer-in-residence, a Historical Novel Society Editors Pick for his novel Purefinder , and a shortlisted poet in the Melita Huma Poetry Prize 2016. From Powys, he still regularly works on farms and in pubs there. For more, see bengwalchmai.com

Cath Bore is a Liverpool-based writer. She writes about feminism, fandom and music for a number of publications. Her fiction is published in Mslexia magazine, many anthologies, and has placed in competitions at Yorks Festival of Writing, Writing on The Wall, Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, plus Penguin/Random Houses Write Now 2017.

Catherine OFlynn is the author of three novels. Her debut, What Was Lost , won the 2008 Costa First Novel Award. She reviews books sometimes for the Guardian and turns up sporadically on Radio 4s Saturday Review . Her short stories and articles have appeared in Granta , The New York Times , the Independent and on BBC Radio.

Dominic Grace is a playwright and an award-winning short-fiction writer from South Leeds.

Durre Shahwar Mughal is a Welsh writer, an Associate Editor for Wales Arts Review , and a Word Factory Apprentice 2017. She studied for an MA in Creative Writing at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Her interests lie in a broad range of topics including race, identity, religion, gender and mental health. Durres work has been featured in various publications and anthologies.

Gena-mour Barrett is a 24-year-old writer from South East London, currently working at BuzzFeed UK. Her work ranges from feature to humour writing, focusing largely on pop culture, race, and feminism. Gena also co-hosts the podcast Well, Blactually , and has appeared on national radio several times to discuss her work.

Kate Fox is a professional stand-up poet based in Thirsk, North Yorkshire. She has written and performed two comedy series for Radio 4 and is completing a PhD in class, gender and Northern English regional identity at the University of Leeds.

www.katefox.co.uk

Kath McKay s publications include End Notes (co-editor); Hard Wired (Moth); Collision Forces (Wrecking Ball); Telling the Bees (Smiths Knoll); Anyone Left Standing (Smith Doorstop); Waiting for the Morning (The Womens Press) and short stories. She grew up in Kirkby and teaches creative writing at Hull University.

Kit de Waal is the author of debut novel My Name is Leon , a Times and international best seller, shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award.

Laura Waddell is a publisher, critic and writer based in Glasgow. Her writing has appeared in publications including the Guardian , Times Literary Supplement , The List , and books Nasty Women and The Digital Critic .

Lee Rourke is the author of the short story collection Everyday , the novel The Canal (winner of the Guardians Not The Booker Prize 2010) and the poetry collection Varroa Destructor . His latest novel, Vulgar Things (Poignant and unsettling Eimear McBride) is published by 4th Estate. Twitter: @leerourke

Peter Sutton is the author of A Tiding of Magpies , shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award 2017, and Sick City Syndrome , which is set in Bristol where he lives and helps organise Bristol Festival of Literature, Bristol HorrorCon & BristolCon.

Rebecca Winson grew up in Cumbria. She is a writer and activist who has organised around workers rights, feminism and housing. Her work has appeared in the Independent , New Statesman , and the Guardian . She lives with her partner in Hampshire, where they are owned by a cat.

Rym Kechacha is a writer and teacher from London. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths and is working in her first novel. Twitter: @RymKechacha

Sam Mills is the author of The Quiddity of Will Self (Corsair) and several crossover novels published by Faber & Faber. She is the Managing Director of indie press Dodo Ink. She lives in South London.

Sian Norris is a novelist, poet and feminist activist. She is the founder of the Bristol Womens Literature Festival. She has written for the Guardian , OD50:50 , the New Statesman , and more. Her first book came out in 2013 and shes now working on a novel set in 1920s Paris.

Sylvia Arthur (sylviaarthur.co.uk) is a writer from London whose essays and plays examine the intersection of race, gender, and class through the prism of popular culture. Shes currently at work on her first book, African, & Other Curse Words , a collection of interconnected essays about identity, belonging, and language.

Wally Jiagoo is a writer for stage and screen. Hes had his work performed at Soho Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Trafalgar Studios, and The Albany Theatre. In 2016 he won the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Prize for TV Drama.

Yvonne Singh is a journalist, writer and editor, who lives in Kent with her partner and two sons, not far from the seaside. Her work has appeared in the Guardian , the Observer , the Mirror and the Evening Standard , amongst others. She now works for the award-winning website Middle East Eye .

Introduction

As with so much of our political discourse in 2017 , this book, fittingly, began life on Twitter. It was in response to a tweet that, in the aftermath of the EU referendum, requested someone produce a State of the Nation book of working class voices. We agreed and took up the challenge.

Despite us not appreciating how much work this book would be when we began, it has been a joy to work on and that is mainly because of the overwhelming amount of support that we have received right through the entire journey to publication. It isnt an exaggeration to say that this book wouldnt be here if it wasnt for the vocal support that we received when we announced it, the crowdfunders on Kickstarter who backed it and all of the generous help weve been offered to promote it. I hope that this book does all of those people proud. From the onset, it has felt like this book was part of a communal process, one that we at Dead Ink merely tried to channel.

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