Writing Working-Class Fiction

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When:
March 23, 2018 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
2018-03-23T18:00:00+00:00
2018-03-23T19:00:00+00:00
Where:
Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, John Henry Brookes Building
Oxford OX3 0BP
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Laura Baldock
07837895520
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Think Human Festival is proud to host this panel on Writing Working-Class Fiction.
Kerry Hudson, Kit de Waal and Alex Wheatle are celebrated contemporary British novelists who have all written working-class experience into their fiction. At this event, the novelists are hosted by writer and critic Boyd Tonkin.

They will read from their work, and then discuss the problems they have encountered in being working-class writers, the creative responses they have formulated in their writing of working-class experience, and the wider issues of publishing and literary culture in relation to working-class writing and authorship. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes has a rich tradition of research into working-class life and culture, across literature, history and the social sciences.