2017: THE YEAR TO END MALE BIAS IN THE LITERARY MEDIA … HERE’S HOW
Women buy two thirds of books. Women writers dominate the best seller lists and came out blazing in the 2016 Costa shortlists. So why doesn’t the literary media give us the editorial space we deserve? Two years ago, VIDA conducted a survey of some of the key literary titles in the UK and US. Its […]
The New Thirst For Words
The rise of ‘text speak’ and ‘twitter talk’ appears to have triggered a desire for more challenging and imaginative vocabularies – something writers should welcome and embrace. In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, a depleted language (Newspeak) is used by a totalitarian government as the ultimate means of control and repression. Each year the government reduces the […]
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