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Blue Collar Review - Nonfiction (Fiction) (Poetry)
Partisan Press




Description
It helps to understand the general characteristics of working-class writing

Working-Class Writing is grounded in lived experience showing characters as human persons in a lived space,
depicting our daily life including actual physical work and how it shapes our lives.
It is written by, not about working people.

Working-Class Writing creates space for people to speak and represent ourselves,
it includes speech idioms and dialects, curses and blessings.

Working-Class Writing is communal in nature. The individual "I" is speaking for the collective "We."

Readers can recognize themselves in the writing; it gives validation to their own stories and culture.

Working-Class Writing gives language to human suffering and grief.
Economics forces are recognized thus giving validation to deep feelings often ignored by mainstream art.

Working-Class Writing has agency in the world, it tells or teaches us something and is useful.

Working-Class Writing includes forces of social and political history and their impact on human relationship.

Working-Class Writing challenges dominant assumptions about aesthetics. It breaks rules
or conventions of form in favor of verity of experience.

Working-Class Writing builds a consciousness of shared class oppression, denial of rights,
the exploitative nature of capitalism, and cultivates an ethic of militant class solidarity.

Working-Class Writing takes sides -- "Which Side Are You On?" it asks and then declares.


Market Types, Lengths & Pay Scale
Essay

Originals
0 to 1000 words
Non-Paying


Review

Originals
0 to 1000 words
Non-Paying



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Listing added: 13 August 2025


Last officially checked: 13 August 2025


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