We’re happy to announce three workshops in partnership with @durreshahwar.bsky.social: Writing for Wellbeing – South Asian Stories. Each one is a ‘standalone’ workshop, and you can register for free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/writing-f...

It was an honour to be in conversation with Sara Ahmed last week about her new book, No Is Not A Lonely Answer. I've been reflecting on things I've said no to, the spaces that make it hard to advocate for better, and the changes that arise from complaint. I really recommend everyone read it.

If there's one thing you read today, read Camilla Grudova's essay on the precariousness of making a living from writing when you're from an underprivileged background and the ways that writers shift and adapt snd often have to make do. I felt so incredibly seen by it.

Last week, for Refugee Week, I reflected on what nature taught me about migration and how you see your place in the world when you have been a former refugee. You can read it here on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/durre/p/...

Cardiff primary school teachers and similar folks, you should go to this. Darren is brilliant.

It was a delight to be a judge for this anthology that celebrates South Asian poetry, and to get to read such a range of excellent submissions on so many different themes.

Spotted at @queeremporium.bsky.social Cardiff @suchmayer.bsky.social

Saw this on another platform today and it resonated deeply.

PRE-ORDERS NOW OPEN, w 10% discount! Please buy & spread the word—this is the book of my life, & pre-orders are v impt for its flight. First blurbs have come in, from Bhanu Kapil & Jeremy Tiang, am so honoured &constantly verklempt 🤍 #CripLit tiltedaxispress.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...

My creative non-fiction piece, Making/Unmaking, written for @nvpoco.bsky.social is now available to read online for free! Bringing together themes of sustainability, ancestral connection across continents, regional practices, making and unmaking of cultural identity. www.yumpu.com/en/document/...

Such a huge loss. I was writing and researching the hierarchies of language when I came across his work and felt a huge shift in my own due to it. Rest in power. What a legacy you leave behind.

Once again had poems rejected by a Serious Grown-up Magazine. So if you want a poem (unserious? too serious? too many raging puns?) in ur inbox, lmk & I'll send you one.

Had the most wonderful time at #awwe25. Have come away inspired, fulfilled, moved by good people and incredible papers, with new knowledge and lots of photos of beautiful Wales. Have been trying to go to #awwe conference for a few years now. Third time lucky. Diolch o galon.

Eisiau ysgrifennu am natur a'r argyfwng hinsawdd? Dyma'r dosbarth meistr i chi. Book Inclusive Journalism Cymru's free Zoom masterclass on environmental writing! 🌱 Gwesteion/Guests: @durreshahwar.bsky.social, Owen Sheers, Taylor Edmonds 21/5 19:00 amam.cymru/inclusivejou...

Very happy to have written a piece drawing on the themes of sustainability, regional practices, and making/unmaking, building upon research from my Future Wales Fellowship for @nvpoco.bsky.social. The magazine is brilliantly curated and is launching tomorrow with an online event.

📍The launch will take place 7th May 19:00-20:30 GMT Online 🎟️ Register here for a free ticket: www.eventbrite.com/e/nvpoco-mag...

Join us in celebrating the work of our authors, learning more about NVPoco, and discussing the future of postcolonial studies. The launch will include readings of creative/critical works by Alan Palacios, Sonakshi Srivastava, @durreshahwar.bsky.social, James Lapping, George Harris, and Owen Buchan

We're delighted to announce the launch of the latest issue of of New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Magazine edited by Soph Harris-Nijmeijer and Juni Kvarving (@juni-kvarving.bsky.social) on the theme of "Imagining Postcolonial Futures"!

A belated thank you to @durreshahwar.bsky.social and @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social for an enjoyable and enlightening chat about Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature at Central Library Hub. Available to reserve now!

In her poetry published in The Dial, Palestinian playwright Dalia Taha considers how simple pleasures and pains—like the warmth of the sun and wrist pain—take on new meaning during wartime: www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

Booking is now open for University of Bristol’s annual Writers Day. A full line-up of workshops, talks and Q&As, featuring headliners Vanessa Kisuule and CJ Skuse. £25 full rate and £15 concessions. bristol.ac.uk/english/stud...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: weaponising the language of activism to shame people, or believing there's a singular correct way to be an activist is often inherently privileged and never intersectional. It also just doesn't serve any community you claim to be doing the work for.

I'll be delivering a PGR seminar online tomorrow with Queen Mary University, about my research and writing of autofiction and how it may or may not lend itself to decolonising how we write. It's free to attend by anyone. durreshahwarpgrs.eventbrite.co.uk

Are you an LAHP-funded student? Gain hands-on experience at a renowned literary magazine and learn how to run a literary prize through our new placement opportunity. ⏰ Deadline: 11.59pm BST, Sunday, 20 April Apply:

NEW CFP 🚨 University of Cambridge The Material Culture pre-1850 Workshop is very pleased to announce a new call for papers on the theme of 'lifecycles'. We are looking for 20 minute papers from researchers of all career stages, deadline 28 April 2025

Have you seen the news? #Refuge: Stories of War (and Love) will be published this summer:

So excited to return to Cardiff Central lib for an event on Gathering PLUS OPEN MIC with @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social. Join us!!!

Pleased to have a narrative non-fiction piece in the inaugural issue of @foldingrockmag about walking in the landscape, water and sea, unreliability of memory, friendships between women, and modesty and choice. #writingcommunity

Ramadan Mubarak, friends. رمضان مبارك

A lot of 'diversity' work in education seeks to cultivate a sense of 'belonging'. But what if we instead considered prioritising justice and a more equitable sense of 'unbelonging' as our aims?

🔔 Students, academics, researchers, and subscribers: Wasafiri 121 is now available to read online! Edited by @durreshahwar.bsky.social, this issue focuses on moving beyond the periphery — spatially, literally, and visually. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwas20/4...

A zine capturing the Educating Susan: Decolonisation and Creative Writing Pedagogy and Publishing symposium, held at City University of London in September 2024, with a quote from my paper on autofiction. A nice reminder as I think ahead towards the talks and publications coming up this year.

read, weep and - especially if you're a parent of students - protest voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

One year since Gathering came out. Grateful to everyone who has supported the book in any shape or form. Especially grateful in a time where our freedom of expression is constantly under threat. You can read our foreword here: nation.cymru/culture/book...

SUPPORT THE EDUCATIONAL BOOKSHOP! We would hugely appreciate any support you are able to give at this time. Find out more here: www.gofundme.com/f/jerusalems...

This #nature and conservation #storytelling #fellowship for young people aged 18-25 in Wales sounds so, so good. Deadline is 17th Feb though! www.kogia.org/fellowships/...

Delighted to have poetry in this Spring issue of Wasifiri. 💙 Thank you to @sanagoyal.bsky.social and @durreshahwar.bsky.social

Wasafiri's Spring issue, edited by me during my time as Deputy Editor, is available for preorder. It explores the idea of the periphery from various perspectives, with writing on climate, body, migration, translation, and a lead feature on centring justice from @profsunnysingh.bsky.social!

advance copies have arrived and if it looks like i’m trying to hug it, that’s because i am 🥹

Feels like a risky take, but in a world of AI and generic copywriting, seeing 'improper' or intentionally deconstructive use of language, grammar, or syntax feels exciting. Give me repetition, colloquialisms, Emily Dickinson dashes.

Listened to a podcast today and then walked in the sun, at the end of which, I found myself feeling really affirmed in this need to create an internal sense of contentment that's so indelible and personal in the face of constantly changing external factors.

Looking forward to reading Shady Lewis's On the Greenwich Line this month. Thanks to Peirene Press for the copy.

Hello, Bluesky. Attempt two at this. Would love to connect with #writers, #editors, #researchers, #book lovers, #academics and all round #creatives here. 👋🏽

Introducing the first four writers for our inaugural issue 🎉 Sophie Mackintosh, @joedunthorne.bsky.social @durreshahwar.bsky.social and Joshua Jones We can't wait to share what they've written for us with you in March! Preorder issue 1 foldingrock.com/shop/