May 2017: Writing about inclusiveness

Last year a report from the NZ Book Council and an article in The Spinoff ignited a debate about elitism and exclusiveness in the New Zealand literary community. Inclusiveness has been a driving passion for me – how to include people who otherwise don’t get opportunities, in education, in writing, in many parts of life, so I wanted to contribute to this debate. I wrote an article for the New Zealand Author, the journal of the New Zealand Society of Authors, and I’ve included it here.

Why inclusiveness counts