The Good Immigrant is ten years old this year @canongatebooks has selected it for their iconic The Canons series. We’ll be announcing live dates shortly. I look forward to meeting readers old and new this Autumn to talk about rising fascism, rising racism and where we’ve come in the last ten years?

I released a comic called Mad Villain about a guy who has a midlife crisis and joins antifa. Tangible ways to combat fascists.Releasing independently is hard so any support, buying it, promoting it, shouting about it, reading it, would make all this worth it. www.nikesh-shukla.com/store

Review! Mad Villain #1 – Nikesh Shukla @nikeshshukla.bsky.social and Camille Aubry’s Nazi-Punching Comic Combines Super-Heroics, Anti-Fascism and the Casually Dehumanising Realities of Racism. www.brokenfrontier.com/mad-villain-1/

New Bristol Cable column on an Islamophobic march next weekend in Bristol. thebristolcable.org/2026/02/we-n...

Awesome mail day, @nikeshshukla.bsky.social — consistently an inspiration…

I wrote a pamphlet called Hope Must Be Held In A Clenched Fist. It’s limited to 1000 copies. It’s about hope and fear, the emboldening of the far right and the need for direct action. Buy it here www.nikesh-shukla.com/store

Buy this, if there are any left. As the man says, sometimes the only way to reach across the aisle is with a jab, jab, cross.

Urgent, enraging and wonderful. Get yours while you still can.

I wrote a pamphlet called Hope Must Be Held In A Clenched Fist. It’s limited to 1000 copies. It’s about hope and fear, the emboldening of the far right and the need for direct action. Buy it here www.nikesh-shukla.com/store

Once again tapping my sign: ICE exist in the UK 🚨 They have had arrest powers since 2000. This government - not a hypothetical future one - is working harder than ever before to raid homes and businesses.

Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.

Was talking to a friend about how artists have spent years warning about the arrival of the current moment, and how he personally feels like making a shift towards creating work that can comfort and maybe galvanise people right now. No need to sound the alarm anymore - the dystopia is already here.

A typical reaction “but if the government bow to prisoners being held indefinitely without trial, then simply everyone will go on a 71 day hunger striker to the point of death to get what they want”

Wrote some thoughts during last saturday’s counter demonstration against the Bristol Patriots. Read if you want. nikesh.substack.com/p/fragments-...

Deadline is approaching for the Faber Academy writing a novel course I teach. My previous students include Sarah Harman and Nicola Dinan. faberacademy.com/product/writ...

Deadline is approaching for the Faber Academy writing a novel course I teach. My previous students include Sarah Harman and Nicola Dinan. faberacademy.com/product/writ...

Seeing as the new year’s honours are out, here’s an oldie but a goodie from me about turning down an MBE www.theguardian.com/books/2021/j...

Priority fundraisers with Palestinians I have personally been in contact with over a few months 🍉🧵

@gralefrit.bsky.social how does one get invited into this unbound whatsapp group?

Right that's way too much posting. Going back to my banal quiet stupid life of worrying privately. Subscribe to my substack: I recommend stuff once a week and post writing tips once a week, and, sigh, there's a writing podcast coming. alas. God I make myself sick: nikesh.substack.com/p/shuks-reco...

I contributed to this on men's fiction. I didn't feel the need to repeat myself, that I don't think there's a crisis in men's fiction. Exciting stuff is getting published and this isn't an overcorrection. I shouted out teachers/librarians/MG&YA writers instead: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

My childhood best friend, a doctor, has set up a project to get kids who need urgent specialist medical care, out of Gaza, to get the help they need. They're crowdfunding here: www.purehope.co.uk

I'm incredibly angry and disappointed by the news that Unbound won't be paying its authors the money it owes us. The Good Immigrant contributors are owed royalties from at least two years ago. I have more to say, and I do not speak on behalf of the contributors, but more to follow, soon.

I’m not about to start sharing my inane opinions again after a good three years away from twitter. But if we’re friends, say hi so I can follow you and we can DM each other our spicy opinions.

Great stuff from Richard Flanagan. People in publishing who do fuck all to change the status quo are always the snidiest about stuff like this. Far too protective of their free books and shit red wine. Question to them: what are you willing to give up for change? www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Spider-Man India issue #4 of 5 is out now.

Who are the great indie comics publishers?

Met ADAM KUBERT!

The best time to send a script off is immediately after you've saved to pdf. You are untouchable. The script is perfect. NO NOTES. Press send... await notes. start noting yourself... oh god. It's not perfect. It's the least perfect thing since marmite peanut butter, which should be perfect.

Deadline approaching to be on the Faber Academy Writing A Novel course I teach, alongside Sabrina Broadbent and Shelley Weiner. Get your applications in! Thursdays, 10.30am-1.30pm Farringdon Starting 5th October for 6 months t.co/TxfH1ie5q9

I turned 43 this weekend. It was nice. And peaceful. Here follows 43 things that bring me peace...

Seeing as people are heading over to Threads this morning, I don't know if bluesky will ever catch on. So I can confess: days before my 43rd birthday, this weekend, I became a sandals man. And I'm not looking back.

Wow, this piece about Zaslav went up. And then got immediately pulled. Would be awful if people archived it and shared it loads anyway. https://archive.ph/2023.07.03-160323/https://www.gq.com/story/david-zaslav-warner-bros-discovery-ceo-tcm-max

Read LOOT by Tania James recently and my word, what a novel. Historical, whimsical, funny, weird, obsessive and devastating stuff. Really heartily recommend it.