bread and roses award 2025

we got onto the shortlist for the bread & roses award - an award for the best radical book, organised by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers - and we were on that list alongside…

• • Janet Elder - Defiance: Racial Injustice, Police Brutality, A Sister’s Fight - - For The Truth
• • Marijam Did - Everything To Play For: How Videogames Are Changing The World
• • Marianne Brooker - Intervals
• • Skye Arundhati Thomas and Izabella Scott - Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts And The Logic Of Crisis In Kashmir
• • Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad - Poor Artists
• • Kalwant Bhopal - Race And Education: Reproducing White Supremacy In Britain
• • Danny Dorling - Seven Children: Inequality And Britain’s Next Generation
• • Jake Hall - Shoulder To Shoulder: A Queer History Of Solidarity, Coalition And Chaos

and last night intervals and pleasure garden joint-won!!!! you can see the award ceremony here:

one of the judges for the prize, Olivia Calderón, said of Poor Artists:

‘Poor Artists is a book, that upon initial read, completely shocked me. Never have I seen the modern creative struggle laid out so clearly, validated so concretely and sincerely. With the rise of AI as a justification for slashing creative fields and the active erasure of humans from what is arguably the most human thing we can do – create – it is a work that has come at a critical point in time.

This book showcases the realities of creativity in our time, and endeavors to provide an inside look into what being an “artist” actually is, what it looks like, and most importantly, how it feels to be a creative. With capitalism so eager to diminish the public opinion on art and its role while also commodifying it, Poor Artists breaks down the impacts of these attitudes on artists – from financial difficulties to the pitting of art and survival against each other.’

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I have intervals on the bookshelf!! i gotta read it next!!!!