I really enjoyed this book. Congratulations to Justene Hill Edwards. macmillan.yale.edu/stories/yale...

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69 nominated novels for the Dublin Literary Award from 36 countries, 20 debut authors, 30 translated titles in 17 languages I created a list by country with the nominating library A longlist up to 20 titles, to be announced on 17 Feb @dublinlitaward.bsky.social clairemcalpine.com/2025/11/24/d...

Two years ago, I introduced a pioneering policy to provide free school meals for all of London’s state primary school children. Today we’re celebrating 100 million free school meals provided since September 2023.

Thanks to our bold policies, we’ve made great progress in cleaning up London’s air. I’m committed to doing the same with our rivers. Our Clean and Healthy Waterways Plan will set out our priorities to reduce pollution, restore biodiversity and improve access to rivers over the next 10 years.

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

As predicted.

I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...

New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

Congratulations to the winner of the inaugural RSL Pioneer Prize, Maureen Duffy 🎉 Duffy received news of her award earlier this month when Evaristo visited her at home. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/9ZB_AHdm4ts?...

This is why they’re deleting studies

'It’s no secret that older women writers tend to be overlooked...' Bernardine Evaristo awards the first Pioneer prize for British female writers over 60 to Maureen Duffy 🎉 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

The incredible Bernardine Evaristo has used her @womensprize.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution Award to create a new @rsliterature.bsky.social Prize. For the next decade, we will be celebrating pioneering women writers, starting with Maureen Duffy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Please spread the word: Are you working on your first commissioned work of non-fiction for a general readership? (You can have previously published for an academic audience). We’ve extended the deadline of the wonderful Giles St Aubyn Awards, three prizes £2.5k-£10k rsliterature.org/rsl-giles-st...

So my mom has just… not had many good days the past few years. Her depression has made it tough to see how beautiful & perfect she is. Part of why I moved in aside from caretaking for my dad was to help her rediscover herself. So we did a kimono shoot for her bday. Look at her radiant smile y’all.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 176: Don't underestimate your reader. Give them space to imagine; to dream. You don't need to tell them everything; just the things they need to know.

Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.

It's pub day in Canada for Oxford Soju Club. It all began in 2018 as an absurdly cliched action novel that also became my self-therapy. After 5 rewrites, edits, and a TikTok DM from my now-editor, it’s here. Nervous, excited, ready to share my heart. I hope you enjoy meeting Jihoon, Yunah & Yohan.

A new award recognising gambling-themed books with a prize of £7,000 is set to be launched in January next year 👇 #BookSky

The number of Starbucks outlets in Malaysia have fallen to 320 currently from about 408 in June 2024 as some shops were closed amid declining revenue.

Open Window, Collioure (1905) by Henri Matisse. Oil on canvas.

ICYMI: A tiny new bookshop that has been decorated to look like the books are on the outside is attracting a lot of attention in Germany 👇 #BookSky

#indieauthors #writing #writingsky #Author #WritingCommunity

In this life writing piece shortlisted for the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, Sarah Anjum Bari (‪@wordsinteal.bsky.social‬) explores matrilineal relationships, patriarchal expectations, and rebellion for South Asian girls — and how hair can be at the root of it all. buff.ly/P1IlohD

Outdoor Afro is offering scholarships to cover the costs of anyone, at any age, interested in learning how to swim: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers. Easy money, no risk. Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.

Is your book group discussing VIANNE? Here's a handy reading group guide to help you get started, including themed recipes, background info, discussion questions and more... www.joanne-harris.co.uk/vianne-readi...

Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

(Why, yes, it IS strange to be promoting a book during these times— please don’t judge me.) As promised, here are the tour dates for my new book:

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Congratulation to all of the winners and finalists of the Nebula Awards! locusmag.com/2025/06...

Martin Scorsese: “The films I constantly revisit have held up for me over the years not because of plot but because of character.” #screenwriting

This tweet aged like milk in the sun

I've had an email from a Boundless author asking about options and what my advice would be. Are any of you guys freelance who could advise on getting rights back, options, and guidance? I don't have capacity right now, but would really like to help them.

I discovered yesterday, in a mass email sent at 3am, that I will not be receiving the roughly £40,000 that my publisher Unbound/Boundless owes me for pre-order sales of The Paradox Paradox. The payment for five years of work, gone. #unboundless

Disgraceful. The amounts are staggering.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 12: However good your work is, there will be people who hate it. This is an inescapable part of having readers. Live with it. Accept it. And know that for every person who doesn’t like your work, there may be another whose life has been changed by something you wrote.

Carry yourself with the confidence of a dude I asked to be a guest on my podcast who responded with, “No, thanks, but if you want a co-host, I could do that."

Morning lovelies, anyone have any book or book-related shizzle you'd like me to share? Give me a bit of info and link :)

Good morning Blue Sky

If someone would have told me an unapologetically candid biography of a Malcolm X would debut at #3 on the New York Times bestseller list, then I wouldn’t believe them. Not during this time.

And how lovely to see the International Booker Prize go to a book of short stories! Congratulations to Banu Mushtaq, Deepa Bhasthi, and @andotherstories.bsky.social

In an uneven global literary landscape, we believe the process of entering literary prizes should be as accessible as possible to all. That's why we're happy to offer subsidised entry fees. No need to apply and no questions asked! Find out more and enter here: wasafiri.org/writing-priz...

Our friends @globalsouthshub.bsky.social have announced the winner of their inaugural Best Contribution Prize! Congratulations to the winner 👏 The prize reflects @globalsouthshub.bsky.social's commitment to decentralising knowledge production and supporting voices that are often sidelined.

Popes - Bears - Woods - Catholics. Come on @artscouncilengland.bsky.social @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social We need your help! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Join us if you can for a creative week in a magical Arvon setting nestled in the beautiful Shropshire countryside. Expect craft-enhancing tools, strategies, top tips & practical exercises to support your writing journey, plus bags of inspiration to keep you going along the way. Bursaries available.

Discover how to transform your will-to-write into compelling fiction during this immersive and energising writing week. 📅Monday April 28th - Saturday May 3rd 2025 📍The Hurst, Shropshire ✅Book now: www.arvon.org/writing-cour... @sharonduggal.bsky.social