The average income for a writer is now £7,000. For our sake and the country’s, we need financial assistance

  • gencha@lemm.ee
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    21 days ago

    It’s strange that the role of the creative is viewed as vital to the wellbeing of society – even wartime armies have entertainment corps – but when authors turn out their pockets to demonstrate what “broke” really means, they are told that they must pursue their art for art’s sake, that the love of writing will sustain them.

    Okay. Says who?