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In conversation with Shelley Harris, Creative Writing programme director, Kit will be discussing her writings \u2013 both fiction and memoir \u2013 and the impact she\u2019s had in making publishing a better place for working-class writers. This is an in person\/hybrid event.<\/p>\n

Kit de Waal is a multi-award-winning author of short stories, novels, and an autobiography.\u00a0My Name is Leon\u00a0<\/em>(2016), her first novel, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. It was recently televised by the BBC, with a cast including Christopher Eccleston and Sir Lenny Henry, who also voiced the audiobook.<\/p>\n

Kit has a passion for getting diverse voices heard. She used some of her author advance to set up the Kit de Waal Creative Writing Scholarship at Birkbeck to help improve working-class representation in the arts. It is dedicated to supporting a budding writer from a low-income household or other marginalized backgrounds. In its first year it attracted 138 applicants: this in turn, attracted other donations which has enabled the funding of additional scholarships.<\/p>\n

She is the editor of\u00a0Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers<\/em>\u00a0(2019),<\/em>\u00a0the result of a project with\u00a0Unbound\u00a0<\/em>and regional writing development organisations to feature working-class writers: this also involved mentoring and supporting new writers.<\/p>\n

Her autobiography\u00a0Without Warning & Only Sometimes \u2013 Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood<\/em>\u00a0published in 2022 and was a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4.\u00a0The Guardian\u00a0<\/em>described it as \u2018A richly observed portrait of a working-class childhood and adolescence that finds magic in the mundane\u2019.\"\"<\/p>\n

This is a free in person\/hybrid event but everyone attending (whether in person or online) will require a ticket from Eventbrite:\u00a0click here<\/a>\u00a0for in person;\u00a0click here<\/a>\u00a0for online.<\/p>\n

Questions for Kit are welcome but we request they are submitted in advance by email to\u00a0cbcp@reading.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0by Monday 24th April, please. This will allow Kit sufficient time to consider her answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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