🇯🇲 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...

Delighted to share the cover and publisher blurb for my debut poetry collection – out Feb 12th but available for pre-order from @outspokenpress.bsky.social www.outspokenldn.com/shop/rabbits

excuse the typo, here's that link again, thanks for your solidarity and help xx www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

🇯🇲 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...

With the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, we’re hosting an online event to raise funds to help those affected Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

We’re delighted to share with you the cover for LAMPING WILD RABBITS, the debut collection by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social forthcoming 12 February 2026. PRE-ORDERS are up now / outspokenldn.com/rabbits

The Scotsman's Poem of the Week 'Scene 4. Lisa Simpson Interrogates the Untranslatability of the Joke' by Juana Adcock.

On Sunday, the Forward Prize winners will be revealed! In the run-up to the announcement, we’re exploring some of the books nominated in the Best Collection category: first up, Juana Adcock on how she wrote I SUGAR THE BONES: lrb.me/098c4c @forwardprizes.bsky.social @outspokenpress.bsky.social

Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians in occupied West Bank Raids, one injured by gunfire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-four-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-raids-one

The genocide is not over. Ceasefire is not liberation. Keep giving. chuffed.org/project/help... “Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”

🌟 Huge congratulations to Fady Joudah, recipient of the 2025 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awarded by the Academy of American Poets, for the most outstanding poetry published in the United States in the previous year for [...]

Submissions are still open for the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! Get your manuscript in by Wednesday October 15th!

‘An alarmingly accomplished debut. A long way now from traditional elegy […] off-kilter and riveting: one dare not look away.’ —Fiona Benson ✨ It's publication week for Madeleine Kruhly's To my father, now dead in room 318 ✨ Out on Thurs > outspokenldn.com/shop/room318

👀 3 DAYS LEFT! Deadline for entries: end of this Wednesday 15 October 👀 $2000 US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social UK publication with Out-Spoken Press Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com

Big news. Big. Huge. 🌝 Delighted that Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero is shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025 🙏 to the judging panel & congratulations to all shortlisted poets. We hope this recognition can bring her work to more UK readers 🙏

HUGE congratulations to Natalie Shapero on the shortlisting of STAY DEAD for this year’s @tseliotprize.bsky.social !!! 🏜️📺💙

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist! Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone." Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

Review of our September title, STAY DEAD by Natalie Shapero, in LARB “Shapero’s mordant humor and intellectual agility throw a challenge to the reader: In contemporary life, are we dead or alive? Could we be both, or in between?” >> lareviewofbooks.org/article/coug...

Are you a writer of Arab heritage with a poetry MS? Check out this opportunity open to writers in English located anywhere - win $2000, US & UK publication Deadline: 15 Oct Send your MS, share widely >> noemipress.submittable.com

Last call for our next course running Mondays 7-9pm, 6 Oct - 1 Dec Tutors: Ella Frears, Jack Underwood, Anthony Anaxagorou Starting on Monday - don’t miss out! outspokenldn.com/academy-plus

DEADLINE EXTENDED If you’re a poet of Arab heritage, writing in English anywhere in the world, with a poetry manuscript - you now have until 15 October to enter the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! > $2000 > US publication with Noemi Press > UK publication with Out-Spoken Press noemipress.submittable.com

Haia Mohammed has arrived safely to take up her scholarship place at Goldsmiths University. A massive thank you to everyone who emailed their MP's regarding waiving the biometrics for the Gaza 40. They are all survivors of genocide. Love to the extraordinary heart, strength and resilience of Haia.

💐 Today we are TEN 💐 With huge gratitude to every poet we have published and worked with, the whole Out-Spoken team, and every one of you who’ve read or recommended an Out-Spoken Press title or joined us for one of our workshops or events. THANK YOU 🙏

Sarah Howe has a new book of poems coming out, Foretokens -- I like Loop of Jade. Have just seen that she is included also in this anthology of conversations between poets of ESEA heritage. #poetry

Congratulations to the wonderful @juanapoetry.bsky.social on the longlisting of I Sugar the Bones for this years #SaltireBookAwards for Poetry! 💫💫💫

📣 Orders are now open for our latest issue, Wasafiri 123! Find interviews with Andre Bagoo, Cato Pedder, and Christina Sharpe, three translated Tamil poets, a poem by Devika Rege, and more fiction, reviews, articles, and poems. www.wasafiri.org/issues/wasaf...

Sickening. Starmer has nothing to say when I confront him about the Israeli companies parading "battle-tested" weapons at the #DSEI2025 Arms Fair in London - in other words, weapons that have been used to kill men, women and children in Gaza #StopDSEI

💫 National Book Award longlisted collection Stay Dead 💫 www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

‘Shapero leaves a huge dent in oblivion to show us that it’s real.’ —Jack Underwood STAY DEAD by Natalie Shapero OUT NOW In her fourth collection, Shapero examines performance, power, comedy and despair through the lenses of method acting and abstract expressionism. outspokenldn.com/shop/staydead

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this last night! And huge 🙏 to Natalie Shapero, Prageeta Sharma & @aanaxagorou.bsky.social 💙💙

Huge thanks to @PoetryBookSoc for including STATE OF PLAY as Book of the Week in their ESEA Heritage Month picks — this book, Eds. @jennywcreative.bsky.social & Eddie Tay, and its wide range of perspectives was a joy to work on 🙏 outspokenldn.com/shop/state

TONIGHT! Join us at 7pm UK for the online launch of Natalie Shapero’s STAY DEAD - with Prageeta Sharma & hosted by @aanaxagorou.bsky.social Free | register to join the zoom: shaperostaydead.eventbrite.co.uk

TONIGHT! Join us at 7pm UK for the online launch of Natalie Shapero’s STAY DEAD - with Prageeta Sharma & hosted by @aanaxagorou.bsky.social Free | register to join the zoom: shaperostaydead.eventbrite.co.uk

Really looking forward to the online launch of Natalie Shapero's new book with @outspokenpress.bsky.social tomorrow!

Tueta Hoxha and Casey Goonan are still on hunger strike. We need people to keep emailing calling and pressuring media to get this story out. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A little Eurostile 💙

🏜️📺 Join us this MONDAY 1 Sept for the online launch of Natalie Shapero’s STAY DEAD 📺🏜️ 7pm UK / free - register: shaperostaydead.eventbrite.co.uk

We urge the UK government to follow Ireland and act similarly and URGENTLY to enable and facilitate Ida’s and safe evacuation for all scholars due to start their studies at UK universities in the coming weeks. #gaza40

With thanks to the Poetry Book Society for reviewing Haia Mohammed’s THE AGE OF OLIVE TREES in the new PBS Bulletin. We cannot wait for Haia to read her work in London, in a room full of friends and those who her words have reached 🙏

🫀TO MY FATHER, NOW DEAD IN ROOM 318🫀 The arresting, unafraid and moving debut collection by Madeleine Kruhly ‘An alarmingly accomplished debut […] off-kilter and riveting: one dare not look away.’ —Fiona Benson Forthcoming 16 OCT Pre-order now > outspokenldn.com/shop/room318

The Mentoring Scheme has upgraded its offer for poets! 📈 We're thrilled to be partnering with @outspokenpress.bsky.social this year, promising two out of our eight places to East Mids poets with guaranteed mentorship from the one and only @aanaxagorou.bsky.social! 😱 More info 👉 bit.ly/WEMMENTOR

Positive news but everything is uncertain. No confirmation of who will be allowed to leave & when. And worse “Israel must agree that each student can leave the territory.” We continue to urge the UK gov to act urgently w full diplomatic weight www.bbc.com/news/article...

Submissions for The Etel Adnan Poetry Prize OPEN 1 SEPT Winner receives $2k, US publication w Noemi Press & UK publication w Out-Spoken Press Founded & edited by Hayan Charara & Fady Joudah, for the first time in its 10th year the prize will be open to UK-based poets of Arab heritage More soon👀

You only need to read the first poem of Natalie Shapero‘s Stay Dead to know how good her new collection from @outspokenpress.bsky.social is going to be.

We've reached a crucial point regarding the 40 scholars trapped in Gaza. Please read through the slides and share them across your network. We need you all to email your MPs to demand the immediate and safe evacuation of the students who still remain trapped, including poet Haia Mohammed #Gaza40

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🚨 Haia Mohammed on @bbclondon.bsky.social nNews yesterday from Gⓐza on hoping to take up her Goldsmiths scholarship in September & the biometric visa block. 🚨 Please amplify & write your MP to encourage the govt to see sense. Letter template: bit.ly/44SLnX9

💐!!10th ANNIVERSARY!!💐 Sept 2025 marks a decade of publishing for Out-Spoken Press, founded by @aanaxagorou.bsky.social in 2015. Come and celebrate with us and a host of Out-Spoken poets at a special event: Tuesday 16 September, 7–10pm Star of Kings, London N1 0AX OSPanniversary.eventbrite.co.uk

My PhD student Shaimaa was in @thebookseller.com, talking about our appeal to the UK government to help her get here and take up her place. Thanks to @commapress.bsky.social and @outspokenpress.bsky.social for their support: www.thebookseller.com/news/publish...

Do the right thing @ukgovcomms.bsky.social