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You've heard the damning statistics: the number of working-class creatives has halved since the 1970s; 80% of journalists come from upper-class backgrounds; 78% of working-class writers say their background has hindered their careers.

In this essay collection, 33 writers tell their side of the story. From novelists to journalists, ghostwriters to games writers, artists, screenwriters and poets, these pieces unravel the knotted subject of class, shaped by lived connections spanning the UK, Ireland, Pakistan, Somalia, Canada, the USA, the Netherlands, Singapore, the Czech Republic and beyond.

Together, they argue for reinclusion. Not just for the survival of working-class writers, but for the survival of writing itself.

Table of Contents:

Foreword – Bread Alone 9
Natasha Carthew
Introduction 12
Kate Pasola
some perfumes smell foul 16
Adam Nasser Benmakhlouf
The Likes Of Us 22
Becka White
Making Art on Pobre Math 29
John Pucay
Catholic guilt 40
Kate Pasola
Hidden Latitudes 49
Macha Lopez
How to Keep Writing with a Day Job: 
A 10-step Guide 59
Keshawna Mooney
A History of Writing: For Imogen 67
Damien Mosley
Words Beyond Walls 76
Iqbal Hussain
Dying is an Expensive Business 83
Cath Holland
the pseudonym writer 91
Zoya Raza-Sheikh
The fantasy gap 99
Valerie Estrina
Sharp Enough to Open Doors: On Writing, 
Passing, and the Cost of Getting In 107
Laura Kennedy
The Working-Class Writer’s Guide
To The End Of The Universe 119
Jakob Straub
What Box Contains That? 126
Rosie Aspinall Priest
The Retreat 130
Jade Green
An actor writing 137
Clive Hammond
NO UNSOLICITED SCRIPTS 149
Sophie Dodds
How to Know When You’re a Writer 158
Ashley Archambault
So gauche! 166
Joanna Whitehead
White-collar 176
Mariane Barlaan
‘Ow am ya?’ 183
Joseph Lee
April 29th Reflections 191
Abraham Adeyemi
The Laptop in the Coffee Shop is Never Mine 208
Kai Conibear
Alas, I became a writer 216
Zeynab Mohamed
Where are all the novels about 
working-class women from the countryside? 223
Amanda Gibbons
The Registrar in Gibraltar 235
Daniela Domin Kankova
Venus Fly Trap 241
Joana Lopategui Clements
A working-class historian 264
Eric Lee
Built to Forget You 270
Claire Harnett-Mann
Volvo, for life 279
Niamh Cassidy
It’s Bein So Cheery That Keeps Ye Goin 288
Hayley Jane Dawson
A Heretical Essay In Fragments 310
Paz Kaiba
Acknowledgements 319

Review :

"These stories will make you think in new ways about disparity, poverty and disadvantage - our working-class experiences stitched together to create a fabric as strong and robust as the writers who created them." Natasha Carthew

"Bread Alone is such an important and galvanising collection. The essays are honest, moving, and full of heart; a reminder of how much creativity thrives in community and how vital it is that all voices are heard, celebrated, and supported. Each piece offers a fresh, deeply human perspective on what it means to write against the odds." Ashley Hickson-Lovence

"We have insights and experiences of immense value that cash cannot buy. Take a seat." So gauche! Joanna Whitehead




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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781738442188
  • Publisher: Indie Novella
  • Publisher Imprint: Indie Novella
  • ISBN-10: 1738442187
  • Publisher Date: 09 Mar 2026


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