'We need working-class voices to enrich culture'

Madelynne Flack North East and Cumbria BBCKate Pasola's anthology Bread Alone showcases working-class writers. A journalist has published a book about the difficulties working-class writers face, after she was pushed out of the industry herself over costs.

Kate Pasola, from Prudhoe, Northumberland, said she was all too familiar with writing's "class ceiling", having believed hard work and internships would be rewarded with success.

"But, what I realised, as my own career moved forward, was that some people were falling away from their calling because they couldn't afford to do it," she said.