NATASHA CARTHEW

Natasha Carthew is a working class country writer and performance poet from Cornwall. She has written two books of poetry, three acclaimed Young Adult novels –  Winter Damage, The Light That Gets Lost and Only the Ocean (Bloomsbury) – and her latest Adult literary fiction All Rivers Run Free (Quercus/Riverrun). A new prose-poem ‘Song for the Forgotten’ was published by National Trust Books (2020) and her latest short-story features in HAG: Forgotten Folk Tales (Virago Press, 2020).

Her book Born Between Crosses, a new sequence of performance poetry celebrating the working lives of working class women, was published with The Hypatia Publications in April.

Natasha has written extensively on the subject of what it means to be a working class writer and how authentic rural working class voices are represented in fiction for several publications and programmes; including Writers' & Artists' Yearbook, The Royal Society of Authors Journal, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, The Guardian, The Dark Mountain Project, The Bookseller, Book Brunch and The Big Issue.

Natasha is Founder of The Nature Writing Prize for Working Class Writers and founder/Artistic Director of The Working Class Writers Festival, organised in partnership with The Festival of Ideas and sponsored by Hachette UK and Penguin Random House.