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Trade bodies launch updated industry statement on professional values
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Trade bodies launch updated industry statement on professional values

ByMartin Reed 2 November 20232 November 2023

The updated statement aims for an industry that is ‘welcoming to all, respectful of all, and supportive of all’

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Where will you not go?

ByMukahang Limbu 11 October 202311 October 2023

Poet Mukahang Limbu on finding and setting healthy boundaries in writing

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Dream job? Or psychological nightmare?
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Dream job? Or psychological nightmare?

ByMartin Reed 9 August 202310 August 2023

Author and clinical psychologist Philippa East charts the unique challenges of being an author, and offers psychological tips to help navigate around them

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Illustration of creative worker alone in studio, viewed through a window. Detail of comic cover by Bex Glendining
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Visually stunning comic launched to help creative freelancers with their mental health

ByMartin Reed 12 November 202215 November 2022

Designed as a practical guide to surviving the ups and downs of freelancing in the cultural sector, Mental Health for Creative Freelancers is a comforting antithesis to run-of-the-mill mental health advice.

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