Work of Fiction: Making a Living from Writing in the UK

by Christina Williams

Work of Fiction: Making a Living from Writing in the UK explores the lived experiences of fiction writers in the UK and how they make a living. Based on a substantial body of interviews with a range of fiction writers, it considers the ways that writers think about and talk about writing as work and how 'discourses of writing' operate to support or undermine them as cultural workers. It argues that discourses of love, luck, magic, and 'being a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031642058
• ISBN13: 9783031642050
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 227 Pages