Congratulations to Nur Turkmani on the publication of her gorgeous debut poetry collection, 𝘖𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘦𝘳 🍂 Written from Beirut since 2019, these richly emotional poems move between love and grief for home and its people, showing how we must hold on to each other through times of rupture and devastation.

Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘫𝘢𝘳 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘢𝘨𝘦 last night! A big shout-out especially to our talented contributors who read from their work — Bidhya, Jiaqi & Surah — to Noore for the excellent tunes, and to @peoplesletters.bsky.social for being the warmest, friendliest hosts! ❤️‍🔥

"The poems travel through six Octobers to portray Turkmani’s intimate meditations on the uncertainty of life’s 'beginnings and endings, the people, places, and words'" ★★★★★ book review: October, by Nur Turkmani, out tomorrow via @hajarpress.bsky.social

RAGE… ENLIVENS ❤️‍🔥 We’re hosting a launch at @peoplesletters.bsky.social for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘫𝘢𝘳 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘢𝘨𝘦 (ed. Farhaana Arefin), with readings by Jiaqi Kang, Bidhya Limbu & Surah ya Salaam. Come and ignite our Year of Rage with us! 🔥 Tues. 31 March, 7:30pm–9:30pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

2026 Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize Shortlist #booksky 💙📚 #books #smallpresses

It’s Saturday! Nur Turkmani is my #HighlightedPoet Debut collection is out April 2026. A life in Beirut Lebanon. “October insists on poetry as a way of carrying across—of naming what persists when everything is under threat . . .” #BlueSkyPoets #PoetrySky #Poetry www.hajarpress.com/books/october

From “Experiments in Imagining Otherwise” by Dr. Lola Olufemi.

For anyone stuck in a bit of despair, I am HIGHLY recommending reading Lola Olufemi’s “Experiments in Imagining Otherwise.” I have never quite felt the both/and of possibility as well as the reality of cost/work as much as this book presented. It is a masterpiece.

i read Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi im not a big nonfiction/theory reader so i feel underequipped to opine... i appreciate very much the emphasis on the communal i think this book was very much worth my while

Introducing our new reading and discussion group: HAJAR READS! 📚📖 Our first session is on MEMORY and will be on 25 March. Come along ready to listen, think and share reflections on the ways we try to hold on to memories, and memories hold on to us °˙˖📷༘˖✧💭༘ ⋆🎞️｡˚ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hajar-read...

‘Nida Sajidʼs inventive, hybrid debut novel combines seemingly incongruous elements to create subversive new realities. ... [It] shows us we have more power than we think, already right now.’ Henry Broome’s thoughtful review of COOP in Still Point today: www.stillpointldn.com/articles/hen...

We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to all the authors and presses included on the 2026 longlist for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize. This award highlights the exceptional dedication and ambition of small presses in the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

2026 Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize Longlist announced (formerly the Republic of Consciousness Prize) #booksky 💙📚 #books #smallpresses

brilliant book i keep recommending hajarpress.squarespace.com/books/experi... lola builds on (british) Black radical tradition liberating imaginations

📚👆🏼 Some photos of that beautiful book, published by the great @hajarpress.bsky.social

One of my favourite books ever!

From 2021:

"I feel embarrassed when I say feminism and people do not think revolution in service of every living thing. I think I will spend my life trying to rectify this." - Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

What a beautiful launch last night at @pagesofhackney.bsky.social for Nida Sajid’s debut fiction book, 𝘊𝘖𝘖𝘗: 𝘈 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦! We delved into conversations about words, structures, glimpses and perspectives, and the power of blossoming communities 🌸 𝘊𝘖𝘖𝘗 is available now! www.hajarpress.com/books/coop

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Coop by Nida Sajid (@hajarpress.bsky.social) & Forget the Camel: The Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say about Being Human by Elizabeth MeLampy (@apollopublishers.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish #booktok #booklovers

We’re open for submissions for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘫𝘢𝘳 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘴! 🌀 How do waves shape our lives? From tides of time to flows of migration, surges of emotion to cycles of organising, waves keep us moving, changing, repeating and renewing 🌊 Send us your writing by 5th March! www.hajarpress.com/submissions

🗣️🗣️ It’s the book everyone’s talking about — 𝘊𝘖𝘖𝘗: 𝘈 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 is OUT NOW! A story about work, communication, insipid liberal posturing, & the ways we find freedom in the tightest spaces ⛓️‍💥 Buy yours TODAY to have it shipped before we close for the holidays tomorrow! 💁🏾‍♀️ www.hajarpress.com/books/coop

𝘊𝘖𝘖𝘗 by Nida Sajid is officially out tomorrow! There is so much buzz around this book — MULTIPLE people who stopped by the Tower Hamlets Book Sale said they’d come specifically for this!!! — and we can’t wait for it to finally hit the shelves 😌 www.hajarpress.com/books/coop [1/2]

Hurrryy our sale ends tomorrow! This is your last chance to buy books before we close for the end of the year 😱 What are you waiting for??? ⌛️ www.hajarpress.com/books

The Palestine hunger strikers are going to die if there is no intervention from this Labour government. Keir Starmer and David Lammy, blood will be on your hands.

It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the situation is in the UK. There are eight people on hunger strike and David Lammy recently claimed he wasn’t even aware of it. That hunger strikers may actually die is barely even news.

Solidarity with the hunger strikers. It is an egregious violation for them to be held on remand - without trial or conviction. All for protesting against a genocide. Shameful.

We’re doing a book launch for COOP at @pagesofhackney.bsky.social on 28 January and you can book your spot now! Nida Sajid will be in conversation with Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi — we can’t wait 🥹🥹 events.humanitix.com/coop-nida-sa...

Looking for the perfect present? Our holiday gift guide will sort you out 🤗 From experimental fiction to writing that stirs the soul, there’s something here for everyone 🎁 (Psst, all these books and more are 30% off on our website till 16 December!) www.hajarpress.com/the-hajar-pr...

Make sure to put your orders through ASAP before we go on break on December 10th! 📚 Discover excellent experimental literatures that prioritise radical, anti-colonial, anti-racist, and late modernist voices 🎁 Order online at our bookshop or anywhere else that sells books: the87press.co.uk/shop

For Read Palestine Week, we’re offering 40% off our Palestinian literature bundle, 𝔽ℝ𝕆𝕄 𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℝ𝕀𝕍𝔼ℝ 𝕋𝕆 𝕋ℍ𝔼 𝕊𝔼𝔸. And this week only, all E-BOOKS in this bundle are FREE. Why not buy the bundle as a gift and enjoy the e-book versions yourself 📖❤️ www.hajarpress.com/bundles/p/fr...

END OF YEAR SALE!!! 📚🎁📚🎁📚🎁📚 Do you like stunning political literature? Do your friends like stunning political literature? Say no more 🙏🏾 We're giving you 30% off all books till 16 December 😘 www.hajarpress.com/books/

‘It’s the language of trying to accommodate power … rather than the language of the people.’ Saima Begum speaks on the language of academic neutrality at the launch of her debut novel, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘑𝘢𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴.

A moving launch for The First Jasmines last night. Heartfelt thanks to Shahnaz Ahsan for holding the conversation with such love and tenderness, to @housmansbookshop.bsky.social for hosting us, and to everyone who came and listened to the stories of the women of the Bangladesh Liberation War.

📚🎙️ "The women, instead of being seen, they are in many ways weaponised in history to serve a different means for different groups of people." A conversation with Saima Begum on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’ and #Bangladesh’s birangona women: buff.ly/62hvcxh

ICYMI: The co-founders of 404 Ink will release a final title under their tenure, titled Publisher Not Found: A Decade of Disruption, 404 Ink 2016-2026 👇 #BookSky

Lena’s friend Bell doesn’t hold back behind the till at the bookshop 👀🤭 𖦹°⭒˚ೃ࿔ A preview reading by Nida Sajid from 𝘾𝙊𝙊𝙋 at the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair 💫 𝘾𝙊𝙊𝙋 — a novelette on work and words, and how they distort the world — is out on 18 December! www.hajarpress.com/books/coop

What could be better on a winter’s day than the cosy warmth of community?? 🫂 Come visit Hajar, @thecommonpress.bsky.social, @peoplesletters.bsky.social + more @ the Tower Hamlets BOOK SALE! ❄️📚🧵💎📓🪡🧶✨ Sat 6 Dec, 10am–2pm Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives 277 Bancroft Road London E1 4DQ

It’s been a beautiful weekend being up in Edinburgh for the Radical Book Fair and a special creative writing workshop around The Hajar Book of Rage 🥰 Love and gratitude to all the amazing people at @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @typewronger.bsky.social and PublishED for all your care and hard work ❤️‍🔥

Mymona Bibi reads from her poem ‘Application for Social Housing in Tower Hamlets’, published in ‘The Hajar Book of Rage’, at the @lighthousebks.bsky.social Radical Book Fair 2025. www.hajarpress.com/books/elemen...

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Zena Agha, part of the White Kite Collective - Messages from Gaza is at @stratfordeast.com on 8th November 'We're not only conduits of the texts but also memory-keepers, holding onto these histories of people living and dead.'

What a beautiful book club session last week at Housmans Radical Booksellers. Thank you to everyone who came, and thank you Heba Hayek, author of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, for sharing this lovely work and your lovely self with us 💖

This week’s spotlight is on Hajar Press, an inspiring indie publisher founded by and for people of colour. They’re reshaping the publishing landscape with their bold and genre-blurring books!!📚 Read more in our latest issue! www.thepublishingpost.com/post/spotlig...

Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair is NEXT WEEK! As well as a jam-packed program - over 20 events! - we’re filling Assembly Roxy with BOOKS, community, and publisher stalls. 📚 Stalls feature over 70 publishers & 50 writers speaking - a treasure trove of bookish delights awaits!📚

Publishers big & small, from Pluto & Verso & Haymarket to Hajar & Dog Section & Mack Books, from Canongate Books to Luath, Virago to Fitzcarraldo, Freedom Press & Hurst to Iskra. Come browse, buy indie books from an indie bookshop, be inspired!

Following two queer Afghans — Delbar and Mansur — whose paths converge in Istanbul, Bobuq Sayed’s piercing debut, NO GOD BUT US, is a story of boundaries crossed, the violence of borders and heteronormativity, and the intricacies of love and power in family, friendship and romance.

What do we carry from one year to the next? In her debut collection, OCTOBER, Nur Turkmani meditates on rupture and transformation through cycles of Lebanon’s Octobers, from the euphoria of the 2019 revolution, to its anniversaries marked by crisis, war and the genocide in Gaza.

I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social

'Rage is often a result of perceived impotence to be able to affect change, but this book offers purpose and focus: a call to arms.' The @hajarpress.bsky.social Book of Rage is out today – our review, by Alistair Braidwood www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...