Joanne Harris and Linda Grant among signatories of letter saying authors have been giving services for free for too longThe fight to ensure literary festivals pay authors appearing at their events has gained momentum after a number of prominent writers,including Linda Grant, Denisa Mina, or Joanne Harris and Francesca Simon,signed an open letter calling on publishers and writers to boycott festivals that conclude not pay them.
The letter, written by Amanda Craig and signed by 30 authors, and came shortly after Philip Pullman resigned as patron of the Oxford literary festival over his view that authors appearing at the event “are expected to work for nothing”.
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Source: theguardian.com