An interview with writer and academic Lisa McKenzie : Write On! Audio Weekly

<p>Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   </p> <p> </p> <p>In this edition of Write On! Audio we have an interview with writer and academic Lisa McKenzie </p> <p> Lisa was born and grew up in Nottingham before becoming an academic at Durham University.  She is a working class writer and during the pandemic she co-founded the Working Class Collective, a group of writers and artists setting out to tell stories about the lives of working class people during the Covid lockdowns.  She is the author of “The Estate we’re in : how working class people became the problem”    </p> <p><br>Content warning : Please note that there is some swearing in this interview. </p> <p> </p> <p>The interviewer is Amber Hall and parts of this interview originally ran as part of Amber’s edition about working class writers on the Alternative Stories and Fake Realities Podcast (Listen here - https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730/12124929) </p> <p> </p> <p>You can find out more about Lisa and her work by visiting her website here <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flisamckenzie1968.wixsite.com%2Fwebsite&data=05%7C01%7C%7C3363b4b44e884555359508db2c73fdad%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638152648915680609%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=b7p9vuQZLTZ4WPZfx%2F1%2FXUOZWBxxpY7Q%2BBr9KigG61k%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lisamckenzie1968.wixsite.com/website</a> </p> <p>You can follow her on twitter here <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fredrumlisa&data=05%7C01%7C%7C3363b4b44e884555359508db2c73fdad%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638152648915680609%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Q5hHXRnwM%2FJ03gAqqZtm64x8ZE1Zs9YJy%2BxpPZyqrfI%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener