The Good Agency, the brainchild of author Shukla and literary agent and Julia Kingsford, intends to work with “exceptional” writers who identify as black and minority ethnic, working class, disabled or LGBTQ. ACE, which published a report last week identifying the lack of diversity in literature, is allocating The Good Agency £581,542 from its National Lottery-funded Ambition for Excellence programme, to support three years of activity, it announced on Thursday. He said that the Good Agency would help “to continue and expand the work we started with The Good Immigrant”. Kingsford said that the last year had seen “so much action” in the publishing industry to address under-representation. “We conceived The Good Literary Agency to blow open the pipeline for these writers and we’re incredibly excited to have funding for three years to build a sustainable business that can help to finally redress this,” she said.

Source: The Guardian December 21, 2017 12:22 UTC