{"id":465,"date":"2020-02-17T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T10:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing\/?p=465"},"modified":"2020-06-30T23:35:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T22:35:01","slug":"class-in-publishing-and-print-ceilings-inequalities-and-diversities-call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing\/class-in-publishing-and-print-ceilings-inequalities-and-diversities-call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Class in publishing and print: ceilings, inequalities and diversities. Call for papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

POSTPONED\u00a0 We will let you know when we have a new date. Thank you for your interest in this conference.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are delighted to announce the second CBCP Summer conference<\/p>\n

Class in publishing and print: ceilings, inequalities and diversities <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

5 June 2020<\/p>\n

Call for Papers <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018A gloomy novel apparently written by a working man. V.R. says it is ungrammatical and has no merits\u2019 (Publisher\u2019s rejection, 1926, UoR Chatto & Windus archives)<\/p>\n

\u2018Class will be intersectional or it will be bullshit (adapted* from Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life<\/em>, 2017)<\/p>\n

Social class has long been a barrier for writers from working-class backgrounds to getting into print. From D. H. Lawrence to James Kelman, Buchi Emecheta to Pat Barker, working-class writers have been told to edit and revise dialect, style and characters to get their work published in the literary mainstream. Thanks to austerity policies and the erosion of the welfare state, barriers to entry in the creative industries are higher than ever (see Panic! Social Class, Taste and Inequalities in the Creative Industries by Brook, O\u2019Brien and Taylor, 2018). Prompted by today\u2019s inequalities and the systemic barriers to entry in the cultural and creative industries, interest in contemporary working-class writing is at a high and publishers are trying to address the \u201cclass ceilings\u201d and regional biases in their own workforces.<\/p>\n

This conference at the University of Reading brings together academics, writers, publishers and agents to explore the relationships between publishing genres, printing, national and regional diversity, readers, business decisions and social class.<\/p>\n

We invite talks and presentations on any of the following:<\/p>\n