Natasha Carthew is a working-class writer from Cornwall. We discuss resilience around poverty. How can cultivating positivity and creativity build resilience?
Her book Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience, is out now in hardback, with the paperback out on 11 April 2024. She has written ten books, including poetry, three novels for young adults, and her 2021 book, Born Between Crosses, is a sequence of prose-poetry celebrating the working lives of working-class women
She is known for writing on Socio economic issues and working-class representation in literature for several publications, podcasts and programmes;
Natasha is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Working Class Writers Festival and The Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers. She guest edited the working-class edition of The Bookseller in 2022 and is recipient of The Bookseller Rising Star Award in the same year.
You can find out more about Natasha Carthew
Instagram: @natashacarthewofficial
Twitter: @natashacarthew
Buy her Book: Undercurrent
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