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UNBELIEVABLE: Kate clanchy | History Defined

OPINION - Tomiwa Owolade: Salman Rushdie’s warning rings true – ignore the Twitter outrage

The ‘updating’ of Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming works are just the tip of the iceberg

Evening Standard

Philip Pullman calls for inquiry into writers’ trade union the Society of Authors

The writer, president of the SoA for nine years before he stood down in March, claims the organisation needs ‘investigation from outside’

The Guardian - UK

Poison pens: leading writers call for overhaul of UK’s Society of Authors

Literary world riven by conflict as trade union is accused of inappropriately taking sides in culture war

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Why sensitivity readers matter

A well-intentioned writer might get things wrong, and avoiding false beliefs is ethically and morally important

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Why sensitivity readers matter – and should be paid properly

Last month, controversy was reignited in the UK around teacher Kate Clanchy’s memoir Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, about her time teaching kids from diverse backgrounds to write poetry.

The Conversation

Cancelling Kate Clanchy has blocked publication of our kids’ poems

Letter: So, Tory MPs, you hate cancel culture – why aren’t you sticking up for her, asks Sushila Burgess

The Guardian - UK

Londoner’s Diary: Kate Clanchy racism row takes on new global twist

Kate Clanchy clashes again / Wolf Alice hunt for jet to make Glastonbury / Ben Wallace has an eye on the prize / Talulah Riley puckers up

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The book that tore publishing apart: ‘Harm has been done, and now everyone’s afraid’

Kate Clanchy’s memoir about teaching won the Orwell prize. Then, a year later, it became the centre of a storm that would engulf the lives of the author, her critics and dozens of people in the book trade. So what happened?

The Guardian - UK

‘I would not be free to express my opinion’: Philip Pullman steps down as Society of Authors president

Move comes in the wake of writer’s controversial comments about Kate Clanchy’s book Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me

The Guardian - UK

Kate Clanchy’s controversial memoir reissued by independent publisher

Swift Press has acquired Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me after its author and original publisher Picador ‘parted company’ last month following widespread criticism of the book

The Guardian - UK

The hounding of author Kate Clanchy has been a witch-hunt without mercy

Publishers and other institutions are turning cowardly and brittle when faced with social media frenzies

The Guardian - UK

Kate Clanchy ‘parts company’ with publisher after discrimination row

Author whose Orwell prize-winning Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me sparked online controversy last summer will no longer be published by Pan Macmillan

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