Claire Malcolm
@clairemalcolm.bsky.social
CEO of New Writing North, proud publisher of The Bee. Literary entrepreneur and innovator. Here for truth, love and understanding.
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We wanted to do this book in our Working Class Library podcast for a long time, and we were very pleased that the novelist Sarah Hall could join us – one of the best writers in on wc rural life out there.
Listen on your favourite platforms or here: thebeemagazine.com/the-working-...
Listen on your favourite platforms or here: thebeemagazine.com/the-working-...
The Working Class Library Episode 4: Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
Richard and Claire are joined by novelist Sarah Hall to consider Flora Thompson’s memoir Lark Rise to Candleford.
thebeemagazine.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We wanted to do this book in our Working Class Library podcast for a long time, and we were very pleased that the novelist Sarah Hall could join us – one of the best writers in on wc rural life out there.
Listen on your favourite platforms or here: thebeemagazine.com/the-working-...
Listen on your favourite platforms or here: thebeemagazine.com/the-working-...
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury
Keep reading, friends. 📚
Keep reading, friends. 📚
August 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury
Keep reading, friends. 📚
Keep reading, friends. 📚
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"“Having been raised by women who fought for equality, and that famous 90s ‘women can have it all’ lie," says @jennyknight.bsky.social, "Women now actually want to see it in action.”
The Bee in conversation with the top-notch working-class novelist🐝🐝
The Bee in conversation with the top-notch working-class novelist🐝🐝
Jenny Knight’s in Ascendence
The award-winning working-class writer’s debut novel treats female desire and relationships with incredible honesty and originality. We caught up with her to talk sex, ambition – and the solace of gar...
thebeemagazine.com
August 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"“Having been raised by women who fought for equality, and that famous 90s ‘women can have it all’ lie," says @jennyknight.bsky.social, "Women now actually want to see it in action.”
The Bee in conversation with the top-notch working-class novelist🐝🐝
The Bee in conversation with the top-notch working-class novelist🐝🐝
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Often mistaken for a middle-class Oxbridge graduate, much to his annoyance. In fact a great champion of working-class talent, and supporter of what we're trying to do. This interview seems to have pleasantly surprised a few people, hope you enjoy it:
Mark Gatiss, the boy that Dr Who books made
The League of Gentlemen star and creator of Bookish on his work, snobbery in the arts, and advice for working-class writers.
thebeemagazine.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Often mistaken for a middle-class Oxbridge graduate, much to his annoyance. In fact a great champion of working-class talent, and supporter of what we're trying to do. This interview seems to have pleasantly surprised a few people, hope you enjoy it:
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We're proud to publish @darrenmcgarvey.bsky.social on the UK's health lottery & why health inequality is a political choice.
Right now there's a lot of bogus blaming in the news that distracts from real issues like this.
This is an honest assessment, based on real experience.
Right now there's a lot of bogus blaming in the news that distracts from real issues like this.
This is an honest assessment, based on real experience.
Class & the Health Lottery
Why can’t all the fat, lazy, poor people be as healthy and successful as right-wing political commentators?
thebeemagazine.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
We're proud to publish @darrenmcgarvey.bsky.social on the UK's health lottery & why health inequality is a political choice.
Right now there's a lot of bogus blaming in the news that distracts from real issues like this.
This is an honest assessment, based on real experience.
Right now there's a lot of bogus blaming in the news that distracts from real issues like this.
This is an honest assessment, based on real experience.
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"She had never cared much for books, because they did not seem to be about her, and she thought she would rather write a book herself, to a pattern of her own choosing and about a beautiful young girl with a startling white skin, heiress to a great property, wearing white piqué at Osborne..."
August 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"She had never cared much for books, because they did not seem to be about her, and she thought she would rather write a book herself, to a pattern of her own choosing and about a beautiful young girl with a startling white skin, heiress to a great property, wearing white piqué at Osborne..."
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June 15, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Looking back on the eighth anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, with this piece by Elias Suhail, a local, who was on our Writing Chance programme:
www.newstatesman.com/culture/a-wr...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/a-wr...
The spectre of Grenfell haunts my family’s area
Growing up in inner-city London, I know that the fire was a manifestation of decades of systemic contempt for the area’s immigrant and working-class residents.
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June 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Looking back on the eighth anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, with this piece by Elias Suhail, a local, who was on our Writing Chance programme:
www.newstatesman.com/culture/a-wr...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/a-wr...
Brilliant interview with an extraordinary artist about a culture shifting novel that should have won the Women's Prize.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
‘The risk was worth it’: All Fours author Miranda July on sex, power and giving women permission to blow up their lives
The artist and author’s hit book had so much in common with her own life that even her friends forgot it wasn’t real. How did this revolutionary portrayal of midlife desire come to inspire a generatio...
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Brilliant interview with an extraordinary artist about a culture shifting novel that should have won the Women's Prize.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
Well done @mcsweeneys.net - perfect summary of romantic movies 😂
"A drama movie is when a character in it screams, 'WILSON!' The best drama movie is 'The Terminator,' and it is about computers and humans being friends and playing together. Horror is when a character screams anything other than 'WILSON!' Porn is when a movie is about Christmas."
I Love Movies, by Chat GPT
The first movie ever made was released in 1887. That movie is called Air Bud, and it is about a dog who is good at passing a three-dimensional sphe...
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June 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Well done @mcsweeneys.net - perfect summary of romantic movies 😂
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Enjoyed Ep 1 of @clairemalcolm.bsky.social & Richard Benson's 'The Working-Class Library' podcast. It was fascinating to listen to Professor Simon James discuss George's Gissing's 'The New Grub Street'. Looking forward to reading it - & listening to more episodes!
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New Grub Street by George Gissing
The Working Class Library · Episode
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May 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Enjoyed Ep 1 of @clairemalcolm.bsky.social & Richard Benson's 'The Working-Class Library' podcast. It was fascinating to listen to Professor Simon James discuss George's Gissing's 'The New Grub Street'. Looking forward to reading it - & listening to more episodes!
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open.spotify.com/episode/3gjN...
If you do one thing today please listen to Max Porter's speech - a rallying cry for the free movement of books and ideas www.youtube.com/live/_OFR6ey...
The International Booker Prize 2025 Ceremony Livestream
YouTube video by The Booker Prizes
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May 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
If you do one thing today please listen to Max Porter's speech - a rallying cry for the free movement of books and ideas www.youtube.com/live/_OFR6ey...
I have a new podcast! Brought to you by @beelitmag.bsky.social - The Working Class Library open.spotify.com/show/7lu7Hzn...
The Working Class Library
Podcast · New Writing North · The Working Class Library is The Bee’s podcast. Each month Richard Benson, editor of The Bee, and Claire Malcolm, CEO of New Writing North, invite a writer to discuss a b...
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May 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I have a new podcast! Brought to you by @beelitmag.bsky.social - The Working Class Library open.spotify.com/show/7lu7Hzn...
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We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.
May 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.
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Read Nosa’s short memoir Confessions of Nothing, about discovering, aged seven, a revolutionary mascara technique that her mum failed to appreciate, here: thebeemagazine.com/confessions-...
Confessions of Nothing
How I invented a revolutionary mascara technique at the age of seven, my mum’s lack of appreciation of which still troubles me to this day.
thebeemagazine.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Read Nosa’s short memoir Confessions of Nothing, about discovering, aged seven, a revolutionary mascara technique that her mum failed to appreciate, here: thebeemagazine.com/confessions-...
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We’re un-bee-lieveably delighted to congratulate Nosa Novia, whose story Confessions of Nothing we published yesterday, on being longlisted for the @womensprize.bsky.social 2025 Discoveries prize.
May 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
We’re un-bee-lieveably delighted to congratulate Nosa Novia, whose story Confessions of Nothing we published yesterday, on being longlisted for the @womensprize.bsky.social 2025 Discoveries prize.
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UK-wide initiative launched by @newwritingnorth.bsky.social @clairemalcolm.bsky.social to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers
New Writing North’s literary venture The Bee includes magazine and podcast, and is supported by Michael Sheen
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May 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
UK-wide initiative launched by @newwritingnorth.bsky.social @clairemalcolm.bsky.social to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Come and hear Adelle and I discussing 80's hair and big life stories.
For our followers in the North East...
The BASE NOTES events continue as Adelle Stripe heads to The Bound (@forumbooks.bsky.social) for an in conversation event with @clairemalcolm.bsky.social of New Writing North.
20 March, come along!
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The BASE NOTES events continue as Adelle Stripe heads to The Bound (@forumbooks.bsky.social) for an in conversation event with @clairemalcolm.bsky.social of New Writing North.
20 March, come along!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/base-notes...
March 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Come and hear Adelle and I discussing 80's hair and big life stories.
Hello world, glad to be here!
December 1, 2023 at 9:29 PM
Hello world, glad to be here!