Bread Alone
Working-class writers are disappearing. Since 1970, the number of writers from working-class backgrounds has more than halved, while 80% of journalists now come from privileged households. As the cost of living rises and opportunities shrink, writing risks becoming the preserve of the wealthy — with stories shaped only by those who can afford to tell them.
Bread Alone is a bold new essay collection from Indie Novella that asks: what happens to culture, literature and journalism when working-class voices are silenced? Across more than thirty essays, writers from across the UK and beyond reflect on class, creativity, survival, and the price of telling their stories.
Featuring work by Adam Nasser Benmakhlouf, Laura Kennedy, Zeynab Mohamed, Abraham Adeyemi, Iqbal Hussain, Rosie
Aspinall Priest, Paz Kaiba, Sophie Dodds, Zoya Raza-Sheikh, Natasha Carthew and many more, this is an urgent and defiant
collection that shows why working-class writing matters — not just for representation, but for the richness, depth and
honesty of our cultural life.