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

Comma Press and Out-Spoken Press have spoken out about two Gazan writers who are currently unable to take up full-scholarship awards at the University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London due to government red tape 👇 #BookSky

Please sign/share if you can. The talented @outspokenpress.bsky.social poet Haia Mohammed is one of those blocked from taking up her scholarship at Goldsmiths University, London, because of this ruling

Alice Oswald arrested this afternoon for supporting Palestine Action.

This has upset me. I am disappointed and embarrassed by my government, who BLOODY KNOW that Gaza can't process the biometrics yet nonetheless demand they are processed in Gaza. We are governed by blithering idiots or calculating, soulless slimeballs. You choose. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

🚨 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

🚨 Please act now to help dozens of students in Gaza awarded scholarships to UK universities, including our author Haia, who are trapped by visa red tape 🚨 www.bbc.com/news/article... Please join the campaign to ask the government to see sense. Easy actions below >

Please read & share the scholarship story of Gazan poet Haia, ❗️and how you can take one action now to help her and the other scholars trapped in Gaza by UK govt red tape ❗️

🚨 Please act now to help dozens of students in Gaza awarded scholarships to UK universities, including our author Haia, who are trapped by visa red tape 🚨 www.bbc.com/news/article... Please join the campaign to ask the government to see sense. Easy actions below >

So pleased to see this letter from MPs in support of students in Gaza with offers at UK universities. It's been signed by over 100 MPs and is a real cross-party effort. I hope now that Starmer will respond to our requests.

Please do use this letter template and get going! The British government could expedite this by waiving the need for biometric data - which these brilliant scholarship students and researchers cannot of course obtain. Let’s try to keep them safe & let them start this chapter of their lives.

Please read & share the scholarship story of Gazan poet Haia, ❗️and how you can take one action now to help her and the other scholars trapped in Gaza by UK govt red tape ❗️

A friend of mine is directly involved in this campaign to evacuate writers Husam Marouf and Yousri Al Ghoul from Gaza - please consider giving what you can. All information (in English below the French) can be found here: www.gofundme.com/f/aider-les-...

so crazy that after 21 months of judicious response to inexplicable aggression, israel abruptly decided to start doing war crimes two days ago. truly nobody could have seen this coming

💐!!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

Kier Starmer decided not to medically evacuate critically ill children from Gaza UK did this for children in other conflicts (e.g. Ukraine, Bosnia) Hospitals in Gaza in collapse - Starmer decided to leave badly injured children there to die www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is SICK. Students in Gaza who got places/scholarships at UK universities in unimaginable circumstances are being BLOCKED from Visas by UK Home Office refusal to recognise there is NOWHERE in Gaza for them to get biometrics done BECAUSE THE CENTRES WERE BOMBED -The Times, today archive.is/678If

It is actually delightful and perfect for this image that this post has three (3) whole likes 🥹😁 (thank you we 🫶🏼 you;)

✨ We’ve a big and bright announcement lined up for next week that we’re very excited to tell you about! ✨ 👀👀👀