We are delighted to be supporting the W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize 2025 with @writersandartists.bsky.social @ruppin.bsky.social, @societyofauthors.bsky.social and @openuniversity.bsky.social Submissions open on 1st November 2025. www.writersandartists.co.uk/about-wa-wor... PLEASE SHARE

🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

🚨 We are looking for an experienced editor to lead our Enablers team on a fixed-term maternity cover contract Salary: £53,100 to £59,000 per annum depending on experience Contract: Fixed term maternity cover, full time, 11 months Location: London (hybrid) Deadline: Wednesday 26th November

🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

ALL the Magnitsky Awards winners are incredible, brave & deserving. But this recognition of Laura Souief, whose prolonged hunger strike in support of her incarcerated son, Alaa, is very special. Huge congratulations to both of them. @billbrowder.bsky.social

Happy Spooky Season for those who celebrate. (Thanks to Tom Ghoul. @tomgauld.bsky.social)

A brilliant piece investigating just who is behind this flag fandango. Such excellent reporting from the @manchestermill.bsky.social.

Reminder: WE'RE HIRING! We’re looking for a Sales & Marketing Executive who shares our passion for literature and wants to help us bring our authors to readers everywhere. Applications close 7 November. For more info, head to www.saqibooks.com/careers

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Well. A small victory for the republican cause, a more significant (if only symbolic) one for the Epstein victims & survivors. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

An unusual crowdfunder here but if you have some beans to spare, you could help save a unique button shop. #TaylorsButtons

Need a proofreader? Editorial & mentoring for all writing projects (academic, trade fiction & non-fiction, scripted)? Reading lists & book content of all kinds? Or perhaps someone to move to your castle & catalogue your antiquarian library while writing their memoirs?

A significant intervention by #TheElders calling for the immediate release of #MarwanBarghouti from his Israeli prison cell. theelders.org/news/elders-...

The #Jamaica Government has launched a very useful website for anyone wanting to help in the aftermath of #HurricaneMelissa. It’s really important that communities receive goods & money they can actually use for their benefit. 🇯🇲 supportjamaica.gov.jm

I agree with Nadine. We in Britain have such deep ties with #Jamaica & the Caribbean (much of this has been historically oppressive & extractive). Jamaicans need our help now. Give money through reputable organisations that can properly assess what’s needed on the ground. #HurricaneMelissa

Another worrying incident of arbitrary suppression of the right to free expression in the US. FYI: @indexoncensorship.org @nujofficial.bsky.social @englishpen.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Is anyone else grappling with the contradiction of #CeliaImrie being a dastardly Tory dabbling in a bit of treason in #TheDiplomat on Netflix but ALSO being a National Treasure & top #Faithful in #CelebrityTraitors on the Beeb?

For anyone out and about in Oxford, this exhibition of Jill Edelstein photos looks brilliant.

Only one week to go until our annual ceremony for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize – one of the world's top prizes for emerging writers around the globe! Come celebrate with us at the Southbank Centre next Thursday, 30 October from 7pm! Tickets available here:

Would love to see a bold government requisitioning that 30-roomed mansion for affordable social housing while the disgraced prince & his equally disgraceful ex-spouse are shifted into the continuous nightmare of inadequate temporary accommodation. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🤗 Sharing is caring. Do you have a writer friend who should apply to the London Writers Awards? 📩 Share this post with them. ⏰ Applications for the #LondonWritersAwards close at 5pm on Thursday 30 October – happy writing! 📹 Featured in video - @laila_obeidat current #LondonWritersAwards cohort

Excellent report on the inhumane working conditions at bougie #GailsBakery. I’ve boycotted since they were bought by #BainCapital, a truly evil company. Decision affirmed by now knowing they abuse workers & refer to them as “breadheads”. @vittles.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

RIP Zoë Wicomb

ScienceWrite 2026 is open for applications! 🧪 Our programme for minoritised/marginalised science writers based in the UK is running again! Have an idea for a book, article or other writing project for a lay audience? This is for you! Apply & find out more at sciencewrite.co.uk

Want to hear from contemporary poets about their craft? Enjoy in-depth and engaging conversations on craft? Then head to our YouTube channel and check out our sub(VERSE)ive playlist: a limited series of discussions hosted by Prerana Kumar. buff.ly/L97Y1Ge

Good piece here about Zoë Wicomb, who died earlier this week, by Derek Attridge. She was brilliant in so many ways. 💔💔

Explain this to me as if I was a visiting alien. Women have been conditioned for years to wax & shave our bits for reasons of sexiness/hygiene/looking like a preteen. And now some shitty influencer wants us to buy plastic merkins that look like party favours? What stage of capitalism is this?

Get vaxxed for flu — and Covid if you can — to protect yourself and your community this winter.

Rest in power Zoë Wicomb.

Very cool job going here at #Quaker UN office in Geneva👇

📣 We’re hiring a Community Coordinator! If you have ⭐️ an understanding of Hajar’s mission ⭐️ experience in community engagement ⭐️ excellent communication & organisational skills ⭐️ the ability to work proactively in a small team Apply by 7 Nov www.hajarpress.com/jobs Part-time 10–14 hrs/wk £17.10/hr

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Calling all indie bookshops... 📣 Take part in our #PENWrites letter-writing campaign in solidarity with writers in prison for Day of the Imprisoned Writer on 15 November. Find out more & sign up ⬇️ www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

This event looks amazing if you’re around Oxford Street this Thursday 👇

“Justice is the gravity keeping us upright” Put that on a t-shirt and proclaim it boldly! Leila Aboulela is brilliant. #PENPinterPrize

Cork County Council seeks facilitator for Rainbow Library Project which amplifies the voices of LGBTQIA+ young people aged 14-23 through workshops, mentorship & publication opportunities. Deadline 31 Oct. We're proud to present a Rainbow showcase during WCLF each July www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/cork...

Read the ten Nobel laureates in literature in the Words Without Borders archive: Svetlana Alexievich, Jon Fosse, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Han Kang, László Krasznahorkai, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Naguib Mahfouz, Herta Müller, Olga Tokarczuk, and Tomas Tranströmer.

A patriarchal worldview but on the nose …

Joanna Lumley must be one of my soul sisters. Her inheritance tracks are just perfect: my all-time favourite piece is Glen Miller’s In the Mood. And then she tugs my heartstrings with Miriam Makeba. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Thrilled to be invited to run this course again with the wonderful @mailbykite.bsky.social for @arvonfoundation.bsky.social Looking for support/time/space/encouragement/nurturing/nourishment for your writing? This might be the one for you. #PlaceWriting #DisabilitySky www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

In the late 80s, on holiday in Zimbabwe, a teenage me read Hugh Lewis’s Bandiet: Seven Years in an Apartheid Prison. Banned in my native South Africa, it woke me up to the role of a few white South Africans resisting Apartheid. Very formative. #BannedBooksWeekUK @indexoncensorship.org

Zapiro has the measure of the situation. #NobelPeacePrize Thanks @dailymaverick.co.za!

FYI that I am looking for work! Available for short term and long term gigs. Drop me a line, I would love to hear from you.

Welcome news: a ceasefire in Gaza at last. My heart is full, knowing that the cost of these atrocities must still be tallied up. There can be no long-lasting peace without justice for the war crimes & full self-determination for the Palestinian people in Gaza & the West Bank.

Stand down everybody. Dolly says she’s fine (with a small caveat). No prayers wasted though. youtu.be/VYQol4eJXqE?...

📚 @wasafirimag.bsky.social x Tagore’s Salon Join us for Writing Through Pain: On Labour and Literature with writers Dur e Aziz Amna & Farah Ali Oct 15 | 7PM | Brick Lane Bookshop A conversation on illness, survival, and the work of writing. 🎟️ bricklanebookshop.org/product/tago...

The Black British Book Festival 2025 is taking place at the Barbican Centre on Sun 19 October 2025. It features more than 80 authors & 30+ events; a full day of panels, workshops & family-friendly activities. Tix: £15 full festival pass – available www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... @BBBookFestival

If you, like me, can’t be roused to watch Starmer’s conference speech, here’s a great alternative. Cassette Boy has been awfully quiet for ages — good to see they haven’t totally gone away. youtu.be/C8uOPrU4B9s?...

I'm looking for work!! 👀 - I'm a freelance editor for Metro UK and writer for newspapers. - I'm a consultant for museums such as Horniman Museum and Kensington Palace. - I'm a mentor for LGBTQ+ charity Just Like Us. - I'm the founder of Burnt Roti magazine and Middlesex Pride. sharandhaliwal.com

Shoutout to Westminster Council. Builders started banging, shouting & drilling outside window at 2pm, breaking Sunday working rules. Lodged noise complaint, received follow up call & visit from Council within an hour. Now peace restored. Thanks @citywestminster.bsky.social @adamhug.bsky.social