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Ultimately, these options are not hard to think about, or exceptionally expensive.

What is required is actual will to change. A real interest in the well-being of those who are not like you.

Even if you disagree with my suggestions, why not ask Black and Brown people how to help?

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The judges can't be all/overwhelmingly white and middle class, and yet tell us it's some kind of level playing field.

Find a way to understand that there are many, many kinds of storytelling traditions and open up to those possibilities.

Who tell you what they ACTUALLY need, instead of doing what you think they want.

I mean, I'll take a quarter of a million pounds advance, don't get me wrong. Bring it on. But I won't deceive myself that it helps the lot of anybody but myself because it doesn't.

4. Competitions: Same thing applies

with rumours and urban legends of how you need to get your foot in the door or how that one time you used the passive voice was enough to disqualify you from publication for ever.

Dispel the misconceptions with the truth. But this must also go both ways.

LISTEN to what Black and Brown people

writing career. Getting a mentor is that much more difficult because, like I said, publishing is overwhelmingly white.

Open up opportunities for meeting people in all stages of publication. Let's meet booksellers and editors and, yes, agents, and so on.

The world of unpublished writers is rife

Be able to earn it ourselves. Many of us can't afford workshops or MFAs or whatever. Sponsor that. We want to be taught to fish. We don't want meaningless charity that soothes guilt. Heck, I'd volunteer to teach in such a set-up.

3. Meet and Greets.
Knowing people in publishing helps with a