Why let other people speak for you?
Fifteen pages of A4 stapled by hand, Commonword’s first ever publication includes work from an ex-soldier, a skateboarding eleven-year-old, and a bloke from Partington. Read about young people breaking into an abandoned building, taking up trade as a seaside con artist, meeting the person you bullied years later and his victim years later…and Marxism.
Taken from the introduction:
The writing Commonword exists to encourage and publish comes from ‘ordinary’ people, the people loosely defined as working class and who often don’t have the education or leisure time of the academic or artistic writer. But what they write is real and meaningful for them, and it could be for you, because it reflects the experiences, feelings and thoughts of thousands of people like themselves. These are pieces of writing that could never appear in the commercial or as arty publications, but they are definitely worth publishing and worth reading. Sit down, lose your preconceptions, and have a good read. And afterwards, who knows, maybe you’ve got something to write yourself.
Featured writers:
Bob DrysdaleVal McKenzieClive SilverstoneLen ShepherdDonald WhitmoreJohn KoziolPeter KayManuel MilewskiMichael RoweWinston JonesFran KershnerLeslie WilsonSteve Marland
