Are you a writer or journalist from a migrant or ethnic minority background who is looking for a space to develop your creativity, but who feels excluded by the discrimination in the mainstream publishing industry?

Are you someone who wants to write or develop your journalism and have your voice heard, but feels marginalised in a media landscape controlled by conglomerates?

Whitechapel Books is the place for you.

What does it mean to work with us, in concrete terms? 

It means avoiding potentially exploitative literary agents who are interested primarily in making you conform to the rules of the mainstream publishing industry. 

Working with us means writing from your own perspective without the pain of fitting in with a corporate media agenda that puts appeasing mainstream tastes and selling copies before everything.

It means being yourself as a writer and journalist, and being honest and authentic in your voice.