For anyone who wants to join a protest to support trans rights, here's list of the ones planned for Saturday 26th April. And beyond: whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

Join the Society of Authors by Wednesday 30th April so you can vote in this year’s Management Committee elections. [7] Need help with union fees? Request a £50 grant via the Fossil Free Books Open Collective fund: opencollective.com/fossil-free-... ✊️ I belong in my union and so do you.

In this beautiful film from @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social and @writersmosaic.bsky.social directed by Savannah Acquah, poet @marjorielotfi.bsky.social reads the final poem from her award-winning collection The Wrong Person to Ask (available in the US via @consortiumbooks.bsky.social). bit.ly/42EqUTq

"Katz has simply once again admitted to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocidal acts. There is no other interpretation, no way of reframing it, no leeway." www.owenjones.news/p/israel-say... #BDS #BoycottIsrael #Gaza #GazaStrip #Israel #Palestine

Yo @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social stop covering up genocide. Remember, the Nuremberg trials, included journalists who not only turned a blind eye, they covered up for the Nazis. Don’t be a Nazis. Report the news.

The Society of Authors needs to change. But it won’t without you. Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections. Writers, translators & illustrators face huge challenges right now… (1/5)

Thanks to our friends at Macmillan, we have two sets of the next two titles in The Poetry Pharmacy series, Wild Remedy and Becoming, to give away. Drop us an email to info[at]poetrybyheart[dot]org[dot]uk by 5pm Friday 4th April to be entered into the draw.

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Just a few days left to get your poems in! ***Deadline is Sat 5th April, 2025*** Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue. magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

Issue 14 of Propel is out today! bsky.app/profile/prop...

Your friendly, neighbourhood disabled & chronically ill person asking you to please write to your MP about the impending welfare cuts - 💌🔥 template here by @campaignfdj.bsky.social : www.campaignfordisabilityjustice.org.uk/tell_your_mp... Thank you ❤️

For someone who enjoys talking to Jordan Peterson about cancel culture, the millionaire comic Jimmy Carr remains omnipresent enough to be the poster boy of an Orwellian dystopia - meanwhile truly original left wing comics like Josie Long remain rarely seen in the media

I really am not sure what else to say about the genocide in Palestine that I have not said already. That our governments are complicit, that we ourselves are complicit through our taxes, that those who are silent are complicit, that intl law is complicit, that we are repeating history…again.

🚨Only six days of flour left to distribute in Gaza: UN Israel has blocked all humanitarian and commercial aid to Gaza for about 20 days, — longer than the initial siege from October 7–21, 2023.

UNICEF Executive Director: “Reports and images emerging from the Gaza Strip following today’s attacks are beyond horrifying. Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed, including more than 130 children, representing one of the largest single-day child death toll in the last year.”

Today, mothers and fathers in Gaza are mourning their children because governments across the world did not deem their lives worthy of protection.

Siân Berry, "Why is impoverishing disabled people is a higher priority than a wealth tax?" Liz Kendall ignores the question on the wealth tax

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Rachel Shabi: "None of the papers have anything about... Israel collapsing the ceasefire and blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza, which is a war crime, and it is striking that that has not made any of the front [pages of the UK papers]"

John Glenday:

You can see the documentary censored by the BBC here. #freespeech #freepalestine archive.org/details/this...

losing it at this “to scale” rendering of a six-inch difference in height that renders 6’ as literally twice the size of 5’6”

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.

Bookshops in occupied East Jerusalem are the latest target of the Israeli apartheid state. Ideas have always irked the totalitarian powers, especially the ones hellbent on ethnic cleansing and erasing the culture of their victims edition.cnn.com/2025/02/10/m...

The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply. Please share :) www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...

The Creative Future Writers’ Award is the only free to enter national poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction competition for all underrepresented writers. The optional theme is ‘Wild’. Fifteen winners (5 winners in each category). Please share :)

Make yourself a cuppa, sit back, take five minutes, and listen to this piece of work by pandemonialist @emmapurshouse.bsky.social. It's incredible. www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

A beautiful drawing by Megan Wakefield in response to my poem in the latest @propelmagazine.bsky.social 🕊️

@sallrock.bsky.social 🔥

It’s been so long since I published anything I’d forgotten the extremes of elation and anxiety that go along with it. I’m so happy to be included in this issue, edited by my most admired Helen Mort. Deep breaths ♥️

🔵 Propel Issue 13, edited by Helen Mort, is out TOMORROW 31 Jan 🔵 As Helen says, "I hope you enjoy the questions these poems provoke and that they inspire you to add to the abundance of the literary landscape. It is a form of plenty we can feel comfortable with, thankful for, even." (1/3)

This is really shocking: and true. I discovered I'd just been upgraded without consent to an AI-enshittified package that was about £30 a year more expensive. Strongly recommend anyone who has an Office 365 follow the below advice to get rid of it

Shout out to all poets, writers, artists, activists, if you'd like us to boost your new books, music, art, fundraisers & community projects for 2025 please add to this thread, we're just making a list for our 1st show of the year & will share @roaring20sradio.bsky.social #sohoradio thank you

So much to be shocked about in this clip. Not least the other journalists who just sit back and do nothing

So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’. Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e

The Poetry Wales award, judged by Jeremy Dixon, closes 17/02/2025 at midnight GMT. First prize = a course at Tŷ Newydd or a stay at their writing retreat cottage. Entry: £5/poem or free for magazine subscribers & low-income households. @poetrywales.bsky.social www.poetrywales.co.uk/award

I know Penguin recently put out a call for queer authors and queer stories. Just a reminder that I am always looking for queer romance for our Harlequin Intrigue imprint and many of our series are also open to submissions by agented and unagented authors year round. Ask me anything!

🔵 Submissions are OPEN for Propel 14, Edited by Susannah Dickey and launching end March 2025 🔵 If you've yet to publish a first full collection, we'd love to read your poems! >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit

This gorgeous poem by Liz Berry in Poetry London (all the flaming hearts) we pressed our mouths together as if we alone had been tasked with bringing spring and her gorgeous undoing to the world

If you're a bookworker (in any capacity) then you're invited to join our Strategy Day for our pro-climate, pro-Palestine movement! 🍉FFB Strategy Day 📚 @fossilfreebooks.org 📅 Sat 18 Jan, 10-4 🌍 online / Edinburgh / London 🖊️registration: linktr.ee/fossilfreebooks Register by 5pm this Wed 15th.

You can now follow @outspokenldn.bsky.social on Bluesky. Keep up to date with all events and masterclasses taking place this year.

Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls

Eyup, #PoetsOnBluesky - @mlferg.bsky.social is here 👋🏻 Give her a follow!

Art should be funded like science. To properly fund art, you fund failure. Funding failure will give you occasional excellence. Creating any art with the aim of it being popular enough to make money, will give you consistent mediocrity. Arists need funding to play and fail because that's the process

Want to improve your poetry but don’t know where to start? Join me for an hour of Poetry Editing Basics that will help you hone your work into its best version. Friday 31st January 12-1pm. Plenty of bursary places available too - just email via my website! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-edi...

Join me on Zoom next Mon Jan 13 (7-8.30-pm UK) to spot your writing habits/taboos & how you might be getting in your own way! Booking here - free & half price places for those who need - and if you can't make it live, all ticket-holders get the recording after: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

This is a unique prize for unpaid carers which is supported by professionals across industry & free to enter. All winning work is published in a beautiful anthology. UK & ROI only. You can enter a piece of short fiction or non fiction (including creative nonfiction) or a poem of up to 40 lines.

Really love Wendy’s approach to writing practice ♥️

MY BOOK COVER JUST DROPPED. Isn’t she a fucking beaut? Pre-orders now open writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/nu5q6... or come to the launch and grab a copy! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gynandromo...