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Progressive Writers' Association (Southall)
Group of Punjabi writers who met on Saturdays in Southall to discuss their work
Location(s)
The Railway Tavern
97 South Road
Southall
London
UB1 1SQ
United Kingdom
97 South Road
Southall
London
UB1 1SQ
United Kingdom
About
Based in Southall, this organization consisted of Punjabi writers who migrated to Britain and found work in Southall's factories during the early 1960s. They would meet each Saturday at the Railway Tavern in Southall to share their writing. At its height, there were twenty-nine regular writers. Many were active in the Indian Writers' Association and the group was broadly Marxist in political orientation.
Ranjit Dheer, Pritam Singh.
Wills, Clair, Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain (London: Penguin, 2017)
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
