An interesting article about literary magazine The Four Faced Liar from Tripe and Drisheen. They note that Four Faced Liar were rejected for funding by the Arts Council. One must wonder why given they received 1,200 submissions.
It’s not about #SayWhatYouPay it’s about #SayWhomYouChooseAndWhy

https://tripeanddrisheen.substack.com/p/with-the-four-faced-liar-cork-has

Returning to the corporate world in March 2020 (my timing perfect as usual) I realised that no matter how much the #SayWhatYouPay crowd boasted about paying, it would never make any financial sense for me to rely on any of it, ever again.

And knowing I was very pointedly *not* #WhomDoYouChoose meant that I withdrew my efforts accordingly.

The issue is, I’m not alone. We’re haemorrhaging talent and this is why. The people who matter think we’re not worth keeping.

Meanwhile, in Irish Writer Land, a well-intentioned organisation called Match in the Dark has started a #SayWhatYouPay hashtag in which publishers and lit mags are invited to openly list their advances and pay rates.

But IMO the hashtag they should *really* be using is #WhomDoYouChoose, because that’s the real source of corrosion in this culture. Whom, and why?

2/2 … This is never factored in to these campaigns because disabled #artists are consistently & across the board treated with disregard or as hobbyists.

Disabled artists are structurally required to occasionally refuse paid work so they can live and eat – your ecosystem depends on it.

There really is no excuse for not factoring disabled & stateless artists into a campaign on pay transparency in 2022. The lip service is pervasive.

#SayWhatYouPay #MatchInTheDark

🧵 1/2 #SayWhatYouPay re artists’ in Ireland (literature via #MatchInTheDark) is today.

I think pay transparency is good, &
should always be readily accessible.

The stark reality is #disabled artists’ pay gets deducted from their Disability Allowance. We cannot earn much money & keep our benefits; we have to eat – so we tread water. …

Pay transparency for artists is key to creating an arts sector that is fair and equitable to all.

We have published our fee structure for artists on the Words Ireland website for many years.

Today, as part of the #SayWhatYouPay initiative launched by Match in the Dark, we are happy to display this information at the link below.

➡️ https://childrensbooksireland.ie/saywhatyoupay

#IrishWriters #PayTheArtist #MatchInTheDark #ChildrensBook #IrishChildrensBooks #MastoDaoine #Author #Illustrator

Pay transparency for artists is key to creating an arts sector that is fair and equitable to all.

We have published our fee structure for artists on the Words Ireland website for many years.

Today, as part of the #SayWhatYouPay initiative launched by Match in the Dark, we are happy to display this information at the link below.

➡️ https://childrensbooksireland.ie/saywhatyoupay

#IrishWriters #PayTheArtist #MatchInTheDark #ChildrensBook #IrishChildrensBooks #Mastodaoine #Author #Illustrator