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🚨 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

wrote about what I've been wearing / plan to wear, and whether clothes can be self-help amykey.substack.com/p/can-my-clo...

I wrote about my desire to arrange little precious things amykey.substack.com/p/a-tour-of-...

chuffed.org/project/1135... can you help this family in Gaza?

a new post amykey.substack.com/p/so-little-...

I shared the link yesterday, but (UK citizens only please) the Gaza petition to UK parliament is here if you're looking for it; just cracked 76k and the rate at which people are signing is creeping up; currently 4500/hour and only needs 347 signatures every hour for the next 3 days to hit 100k

Hugely excited to share that on 4 August, BBC R4 A GOOD READ will be discussing our beloved THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY by Vivian Gornick (intro by @amykey.bsky.social) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I wrote a feature for Stylist about what the future might look like for single women without kids as they age www.stylist.co.uk/life/getting...

I wrote about what all the girls wore to see Lana at Wembley last week, and about seeing Lana ofc amykey.substack.com/p/what-the-g...

Unfortunately Nuar Alsadir will no longer be joining us tomorrow for @writeback.bsky.social, however the wonderful @amykey.bsky.social will be stepping in to join Nikesh Shukla and Claire-Louise Bennett for what's set to be a brilliant night @britishlibrary.bsky.social events.bl.uk/events/write...

Totally utterly completely indefensible

Reports say Israel now eyeing occupation of entire enclave, control of aid and possible expulsion of Palestinians.

Loved writing about this encounter for The Observer Magazine observer.co.uk/style/how-we...

🔊EVENT KLAXON 🔊 Join Alice Vincent in conversation with @amykey.bsky.social at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social on Tuesday 29th for the first official event for Alice's new book HARK: How Women Listen www.foyles.co.uk/events/hark-...

🟢 NEW PAMPHLET 🟢 Haia Mohammed, The Age of Olive Trees Pre-order now / All proceeds to author www.outspokenldn.com/shop/haia In 2023, Joelle Taylor read the work of Haia, a young poet in Gaza, at the fundraiser we did. We stayed in contact (1/3)

LAST week to sign up for our 4-week online Creative Non-Fiction course, led by @amykey.bsky.social & @jennashworth.bsky.social! 3–28 March Workshops: Mon & Fri 7-9pm O2O feedback tutorial with each tutor Instalment payment available. Full info & register now: www.outspokenldn.com/academy-crea...

silly season on my substack amykey.substack.com/p/clothes-fo...

ICYMI @outspokenacademy.bsky.social four-week online Creative Non-Fiction course with @amykey.bsky.social & @jennashworth.bsky.social is open for registration. Course dates: 3–28 March 2025 Find out more & register now > www.outspokenldn.com/academy-crea...

excited for this next month - sign-up and join us!

We were lucky enough to meet Mahmoud in November. Please join us in calling for his immediate release, along with his nephew, Ahmad

We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop. Please share our statement below widely.

sending out a new newsletter for paid subscribers very shortly in case anyone wants to join the list! amykey.substack.com/about

Thoroughly enjoyed @katlister.bsky.social and I getting to be fans of Vivian Gornick with such a lovely audience last night!

Daunt has beautifully published The Odd Woman and the City for the first time in the UK, and it’s a treasure of wonders – with a heartfelt introduction by Amy. Go get yours here: dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/odd-wom...

NEW! We're excited to announce that our Creative Non-Fiction 4-week online course with @jennashworth.bsky.social & @amykey.bsky.social is open for registration! Dates: 3–28 March 2025 Classes: 7–9pm UK, Mon & Fri +individual tutorial with each tutor Learn more: www.outspokenldn.com/academy-crea...

We're close to having a sold out event on Thu 6 Feb, Daunt Books, Marylebone High St with @amykey.bsky.social and @katlister.bsky.social discussing Vivian Gornick's THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY. Few tickets available, so book now. dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...

Very excited to be interviewing the wonderful @amykey.bsky.social about the equally wonderful Vivian Gornick at this @dauntbookspub.bsky.social event on 6 February at Daunt Books Marylebone. Tickets are a tenner including a glass of wine – get yours tout de suite!

‘Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents. There will be no buildings' - Israeli defence official, Oct 23 'Bring down buildings! Bomb without distinction... Flatten Gaza' - Knesset member (Likud), Oct 23 Israel did exactly what it said it would do, with full support from western allies

If you enjoy my substack, please consider becoming a paid subscriber for £40 a year or £4 a month. The first newsletter for paid subscribers will be my foreword for @dauntbookspub.bsky.social edition of Vivian Gornick's The Odd Woman and the City amykey.substack.com/about

I wanted to write something quickly about David Lynch amykey.substack.com/p/notes-on-d...

I wrote about forgetting death days amykey.substack.com/p/on-vanity-...

Just one place left on my online Moniack Mhor course on memoir running in March! And the guest writer is the fab @amykey.bsky.social! More info here: www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2561...

reminder that @amykey.bsky.social, who wrote the new foreword for our edition, is in conversation about Vivian Gornick's THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY @dauntbooks.bsky.social Marylebone on Thursday 06 Feb! dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...

A fifth baby displaced by Israel died of the cold in Deir el Balah, Gaza today. This is not a natural disaster, this is a crime against humanity committed with the full support of the US government.

I've written a new post to close out the year on my substack, thinking about how we diarise without really meaning to and what I want to remember as we go into 2025

I'm now able to offer a handful of mentoring opportunities

One year ago today Israel murdered poet Refaat Alareer along with his entire family.

I started the final season of My Brilliant Friend last night (The Story of the Lost Child). Its such an extraordinary adaptation - every minute of it gives me the same feelings I get when reading Ferrante -a profound emotional discomfort, the kind I experience when something is cold and true.

Why are we striking? Our owners says the sale is “necessary”. But the Observer is a successful part of the Guardian family The deal has been done in secret and without considering other bids Our owners have a £1.3bn fund & a duty to protect liberal journalism - why not invest?

I just sent my agent the first draft of my book proposal & I expect to be hit later today with loads of related psychic debris that I’ll suddenly be able to parse, like the act of sending a version reveals the better version that was there all along

This elegant, thoughtful memoir, by author of FIERCE ATTACHMENTS, will lead you through the bustling streets of NYC and into the heart of a decades-spanning friendship. Thurs 06 Feb, we have an event with @amykey.bsky.social, author of ARRANGEMENTS IN BLUE, over at Marylebone:

I am so excited to get to talk about THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY at Daunt Marylebone in Feb! Odd women please come along and join me!

I was thinking the other day about a poem I wrote about all my unrequited loves, which was a cento I made from tweets on the subject. I'd been asked to write about rejection, and it struck me unrequited love is the most romantic of rejections amykey.substack.com/p/rejection-...

I've decided to make the dress code for my Christmas drinks RIVALS and went to several charity shops today to scout for elaborate gold-tone clip-on earrings but none were to be had! has everyone had the same idea? has there been a run on elaborate gold-tone clip-on earrings?

Striding into 2025 with a spring in our nattily-trousered step: Vivian Gornick's wonderful memoir THE ODD WOMAN AND THE CITY, with a foreword by Amy Key, and Angelo Tijssens' THE EDGES (tr Michele Hutchison), a beautiful novella of loneliness and love

It was a dream of mine to write for The World of Interiors and the dream came true. I wrote about loving very fragile things. www.worldofinteriors.com/story/amy-ke...

New Prize for unagented and unpublished writers for an essay - £3k in prizes. Say the thing you want to say and enter!

#BooksforGaza is raising money to help critically injured children. You can buy a signed copy from many authors (Constellations is in there) between now and February 12th. www.32auctions.com/booksforgaza Please share.