Philip Pullman calls for inquiry into writers’ trade union the Society of Authors
The writer, president of the SoA for nine years before he stood down in March, claims the organisation needs ‘investigation from outside’
August 2022
Poison pens: leading writers call for overhaul of UK’s Society of Authors
Literary world riven by conflict as trade union is accused of inappropriately taking sides in culture war
June 2022
Cancelling Kate Clanchy has blocked publication of our kids’ poems
The book that tore publishing apart: ‘Harm has been done, and now everyone’s afraid’
March 2022
‘I would not be free to express my opinion’: Philip Pullman steps down as Society of Authors president
Move comes in the wake of writer’s controversial comments about Kate Clanchy’s book Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me
February 2022
Kate Clanchy’s controversial memoir reissued by independent publisher
Swift Press has acquired Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me after its author and original publisher Picador ‘parted company’ last month following widespread criticism of the book
January 2022
The hounding of author Kate Clanchy has been a witch-hunt without mercy
Sonia Sodha
Kate Clanchy ‘parts company’ with publisher after discrimination row
August 2021
Pointing out racism in books is not an ‘attack’ – it’s a call for industry reform
Monisha Rajesh
I was called aggressive for criticising passages in Kate Clanchy’s memoir. But the real problem lies deep in the overwhelmingly white world of publishing
Kate Clanchy to rewrite memoir amid criticism of ‘racist and ableist tropes’
Poet and teacher has apologised for ‘overreacting’ to scrutiny of book’s portrayals of autistic pupils and children of colour
Kate Clanchy book may be updated to remove racial stereotypes after criticism
Publisher Picador says it is looking at changing passages in prize-winning memoir, which Clanchy intially claimed were not in the book at all
July 2020
'The prize of all prizes': Teacher Kate Clanchy's memoir wins Orwell award
Judges praise Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, which draws on three decades working in schools, as ‘moving, funny, and full of love’
April 2019
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me by Kate Clanchy review – the reality of school life
A teacher’s honest, personal account of state education puts individual children at its centre
March 2019
Kate Clanchy: ‘Poetry makes children feel important, that they’re heard’
‘So many of our children had a loss to mourn. Isn’t that what poetry’s for?’
July 2018
England: Poems from a School, edited by Kate Clanchy – review
A poetry anthology by immigrant schoolchildren in Oxford are full of heart and resolve
July 2016
Kate Clanchy showed me that it’s still possible to be proud to be British
The long read
The Very Quiet Foreign Girls poetry group
August 2015
The Guardian Books podcast
Surprising stories with Steve Toltz and Kate Clanchy - books podcast
The Australian novelist on transforming his own woes into comedy and Kate Clanchy on defying commercial pressure to produce a ‘literary hand grenade’
July 2015
Book of the day
The Not-Dead and the Saved – Kate Clanchy’s first short-story collection
The short stories in this debut collection possess a raw, unsettled urgency and are exactly what we need to be reading now
