In this episode I discuss the problems with Arts Council funding, rewarding mediocrity, and the privileges of those with all the power in the writing world. I urge all my fellow writers listening to hear this message and speak out on the corruption going on in the arts. If we don’t fight for what we deserve then there will be nobody left other than those who hold all the cards.

‘I have no patience with the pretensions of would-be poets who contrive by toadying and underground influences to get their volumes placed on every drawing-room table.’ —The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

Mentioned:

- Rebecca Kenny’s Instagram post

- The Rest Is Entertainment episode: 16:34

- Majority of creative jobs go to friends or contacts in ‘closed’ process – BECTU by Katie Chambers for The Stage

- NPO championing marginalised writers to close by Chris Sharratt for Arts Professional

- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

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