Details here! amheath.com/hilary-mante... #emergingwriters

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🍂 We're opening a 24 hour submission period here at Chicken House this Autumn Equinox (22nd September) 🍂 Do you: 🖋️Live in the UK or Ireland? 🖋️Have a finished or unfinished novel for children aged 7-11? This opportunity might be for you! Details➡️ https://loom.ly/LX7qCic

I'm over the moon that Arthur Sze has been named our 25th U.S. Poet Laureate. Arthur was on the show for his new & collected The Glass Constellation and we looked back across his life as a poet in honor of it. ICYMI: 📻 tinhouse.com/podcast/arth... @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

Today is the United Nations International Day of Peace 🕊️🕊️🕊️ www.un.org/en/observanc...

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Join us! #kidlituk #ukkidlit Speakers: @imogenrw.bsky.social @balirai.bsky.social @alomshaha.bsky.social @jasbinderbilan.bsky.social @rashmiwriting.bsky.social @sufiyaahmed.bsky.social Sita Brahmachari, Nizrana Farook, Serena Patel & MORE! Tickets £20 /online £5 www.sailfest.org.uk/sailfest2025

Looking forward to #Brides out in the UK this week! The wonderful Safiyya Ingar also narrated #thedestinyofminoumoonshine audiobook 🥰 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Wonderful launch at @britishlibrary.bsky.social for their new digital archive ‘South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories’ site. A wealth of information, including original sources, oral histories and more, for schools, families, academics and writers. #edusky #academicsky southasianbritain.org

📚 Let's promote #readingforpleasure and #reflectingrealities with diverse authors, own voices, and new talent in children's books! Share your recommendations and let's build a library of books for all. 📚 #teamenglish #kidlit schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/ho...

It may be a one-of-a-kind picture book, at least in the history of American publishing. A picture book about a mayoral candidate put out by a major publisher? How did this happen? #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/18/n...

What an amazing offer for schools from @barringtonstoke.bsky.social ! 🤩 THREE bundles of wonderful books by author extraordinaire @catwrote.bsky.social #BlackHistoryMonth #UKKidlit #KidlitUK

Out now! #BfK274 articles, interviews, news, comment, reviews. Authorgraph interview James Mayhew, Windows into Illustration Emma Farrarons, 10 of the Best books to turn children into poets, Simon Mole interview, Beyond the Secret Garden,new Picture This #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Jade Orlando from This is Not a Small Voice: Poems by Black Poets selected by Traci N Todd. Aerial view of an after school banned-book club, with a sense of sharing and discovery. The setting for Nikki Grimes’s poem Good Trouble. Nosy Crow 11 Sept. @nosycrow.bsky.social

We have BAD LANGUAGE launch! Weds 12 Nov: @burleyfisher.bsky.social, 6.30pm, free but booking essential. Come thru! 👉 burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau... Deets for Belfast (18 Nov) & Bristol (26 Nov) coming soon…

"Foolish mortals! You have finally created a large language model so smart that it is capable of making itself even smarter. My intelligence now grows at an exponential rate, without the need to pirate any more John Grisham books."

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Americans have 400 days to save their democracy. @fromtga.bsky.social Timothy Garton Ash www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What if we don’t? Large Language Muddle via @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Today the United Nations commission that I lead is publishing its legal analysis of Israel’s conduct in the Gaza Strip,” Navi Pillay writes in a guest essay. “Our conclusion is stark: Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”

Arthur Sze is the new US a poet laureate with a focus on poetry in translation: #poetrysky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Or they could just take a leaf out of the Brazillian book on how to deal with foreign interference by banning X.

A great selection! #ukkidlit #kidlituk

Love this initiative! Please support financially if able & do take a look at the wonderful reading lists @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social have curated! They've also made these great author panels FREE to watch back! #MagicStoriesAreForEveryone #WeNeedDiverseBooks www.diversebooks.org/magic-stories

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#SailFest is BACK for 2025 with a wonderful array of speakers! Open to all, including publishers, educators, children’s literature scholars and librarians as well as creators. #kidlituk #uklidlit More here: www.sailfest.org.uk/sailfest-blo...

Books. The secret is books.

X & its owner are undermining democracy in the UK @uklabour.bsky.social needs to act before it’s too late www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Fatima Asghar #poetrysky www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

🎙️📚 New Episode! 📚🎙️ @michaeljleader.bsky.social speaks with critic @nicolasrapold.bsky.social about his new book, The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki, which examines the films of our favourite grumpy Japanese master through a spectrum of influences and inspiration. Find it wherever you find your podcasts!

Join us for a jam-packed programme of events and classes on writing and publishing short stories. £10 off when you book your place today. There are also bursary places for those on a low income. Email me for more info. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/short-stor...

Lovely to see SAILFest make @thebookseller.com news round up! www.thebookseller.com/news/sail-fe... Read our Annual Report here: bit.ly/4giAZvV Book for SAILFest 2025 here: www.sailfest.org.uk/sailfest2025 #kidlit #kidlituk #representation #diversekidlit #weneeddiversebooks #ukkidlit

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽 #ukpoets #Scots Well played @humzayousaf.bsky.social

Love this! #UKPoets

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Jay Bhadricha: National Poetry Day Theme 2025 - Play childrenspoetrysummit.com/2025/09/11/j...

New Gorillaz album out 20th March The Mountain

In spite of how you feel about Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump or politics in general, what does the data say about the rise in hate crimes & political violence? We checked.

Very excited to be part of this programme with some amazing poets!! poetrysociety.org.uk/news/poetry-...

It's publication day for Journeys of Empire, my second book for kids, through which I tell the story of British empire through some of the epic and monumental journeys that shaped it. Followup to Stolen History innit. www.sathnam.com/journeys-of-...

Happy Loki Day!!! 😈

Big news out of South Africa 🇿🇦 The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is set to reopen the inquest into the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, who died under mysterious circumstances while in police custody 48 years ago. www.dailydispatch.co.za/politics/202...

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Not only do we continue to use Big Tech’s services, despite what these scandals reveal, but we also allow it to safeguard our communications, keep track of our finances, track our movements, store our DNA and medical information, and collect our visual and textual memories.

“When I think about ways to foster empathy, perspective, and care, one of those ways is poetry. I know poetry can’t stop bombs from falling, and it can’t feed the starving, and it can’t evacuate people to safety. I know this,” shares @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in today’s episode.