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Is it the best of times or the worst of times for working class writing?

And how do we define it today?

It's a question raised in a new anthology, Common People,

which highlights the experiences of a wealth of authors from less represented backgrounds

through a selection of essays, poems and memoir.

For those dubious about such discrimination, a recent report from Create London makes sobering reading,

showing that just 10% of writers, authors and translators, and just 12.6% of people working in the publishing industry

have parents with so-called working class origins. Well, revolutionaries that we are here on

Open Book, we're marking International Workers' Day with a celebration of the rich heritage and

bright future of writing from less represented sources.

With me in the studio are Professor Simon Kervishi from Oxford Brooks University,

who specialises in working class literature. Katie Brown, editor at Trapeze and co-chair

of Hachette's All Together Network, and two of the contributors to Common People,

prize-winning author Lisa Blower, who has a new volume of her own stories out and also teaches

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