Kit de Waal

Nov 29, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Kit de Waal

I’ve been talking about the need for working-class writers to have a fair crack of the whip since 2016. I made documentaries, wrote essays and articles, published an anthology of working-class memoirs called Common People and crowdfunded its publication. Eight years ago, this was, relatively speaking, a new topic and people in the industry and beyond wanted to know the facts and the figures to try and work out why it’s so hard for working-class writers to get published.

Apr 2, 2024 | l8r.it | Malorie Blackman |Matt Cain |Kit de Waal |Jo Nesbo

Publishing on 11th April 2024 and again reflecting the very best contemporary writing, the new collection of Quick Reads features six best-selling authors: Kia Abdullah, Malorie Blackman, Matt Cain, Kit de Waal, Jo Nesbo and Karen Swan.

Dec 15, 2023 | rts.org.uk | Ella Christian-Sims |Kit de Waal

The scheme will be comprised of workshops, expert-led sessions and networking opportunities across an eight-week period. From June 2024, the soon-to-be script writers will learn each stage of writing for screen, covering all bases. This will be the second “Write Across” scheme the BBC has initiated after the successful “Write Across Liverpool” last year.

Oct 12, 2023 | theguardian.com | Kit de Waal

Like any Caribbean person with a religious upbringing, I had three notions of Babylon: the city mentioned in the Bible, the figurative empire of false gods and the all-encompassing, anti-black system that I learned about from my Rastafarian friends in the 1970s. So, when I started poet Safiya Sinclair’s memoir How to Say Babylon I thought I knew what to expect. But this is a story about another Babylon altogether – the cruel and relentless oppression of women, particularly black women.