Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

My book is out today in the US and Canada! 🤯🎉

So happy to have our new issue up! So much brilliant stuff in there. Well done to our amazing editors. Check it out below 👇

So happy to have our new issue up! So much brilliant stuff in there. Well done to our amazing editors. Check it out below 👇

Really happy to share this roundtable - thanks to all those who were involved and to @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social for putting it together!

A friend of mine told me about a recently published nonfic book where the writer starts off saying they didn't know what to write on; the friend told me it made her stop reading. I just started reading an essay that did the same. Do people like this strategy? Are there versions that work? V curious

A friend of mine told me about a recently published nonfic book where the writer starts off saying they didn't know what to write on; the friend told me it made her stop reading. I just started reading an essay that did the same. Do people like this strategy? Are there versions that work? V curious

A really interesting article on Wikipedia and fiction by Kiron Ward in @c21literature.bsky.social, published by @openlibhums.org. Complements nicely the article on Wikipedia and the Novel by Ryan Ruby in the current issue of New Left Review. c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Can a group of grassroots campaigners collaborate with a 140-year-old trade union resistant to change? @noreenmasud.bsky.social & @iammartinreed.bsky.social examine the @societyofauthors.bsky.social, one of the UK’s largest trade unions for creators, as @fossilfreebooks.org members. buff.ly/A7kzbHa

Absolutely thrilled that my book is discussed by Joshua Rothman so attentively in The New Yorker! @princetonupress.bsky.social

Absolutely thrilled that my book is discussed by Joshua Rothman so attentively in The New Yorker! @princetonupress.bsky.social

@kdclewin.bsky.social explores the joys of (quiet) communal writing.

Thrilled that a little excerpt of my book (published by @princetonupress.bsky.social in less than two weeks!) is out @literaryhub.bsky.social. It's about how the @britishlibrary.bsky.social made me a writer

Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking

Anyone potentially interested in writing a review of Bad Bunny's halftime show for The Black Scholar (750-1,500 words)? www.theblackscholar.org/submission/

We are looking for review essays! You can see some of our selected titles at the post below. Get in contact with our review editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social to request some or for further info

Just received my first book scam! An email from someone trying to get me listed on to Goodreads Reading Challenge 2026 (for only a small fee of course). Sad it wasn't one of those ones from 'author Toni Morrison' or 'author Donna Tartt' but still. A very strange grift I have to say...

£500 given out to a working class writer every month. Details in link. Please share :)

Page proofs arrived today (!) and actual book coming August 2026!!!

Interested nonfiction writers! Do you have a book project you'd like to get off the ground but aren't sure where to start? I'll be offering one-on-one consultations from February! DM me here or contact me through my website to discuss if it could be right for you

Half of English students have noticed an impact from cost-cutting measures at their university, with most saying it was leading to a worse experience than expected, reports @twilliamsthe.bsky.social #edusky #academicsky

Mostly in bed today, out with another virus caught from my son, with @jencalleja.bsky.social's Fair: The Life-Art of Translation, (published by @prototypepubs.bsky.social) for company. This bit, on front of house staff, cleaners, and languages (at an unnamed place I can guess!) caught my eye:

the government paid £4 million for a website that simply links out to AI training courses from other companies rather than using that money to make something actually bespoke which I guess is actually a pretty accurate representation of this whole damn thing 🥲

Fascinating/completely maddening thread. Thank you for your sacrifice!

I've just used the 'contact us' page on this site to let them know how I feel about these new offerings. I wonder if anyone else would like to do the same? Company-sponsored education is NOT IT

I've just used the 'contact us' page on this site to let them know how I feel about these new offerings. I wonder if anyone else would like to do the same? Company-sponsored education is NOT IT

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

Monday and the start of a second week of being prevented from working by my employer, the University of Sheffield. Management has decided that massive damage to staff morale, student experience and the university’s reputation is worth it in a futile attempt to break the union. Shame on them.

Honoured to be in this issue of @memoiresdulivre.bsky.social on visibility & publishing, eds @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social & @julienlf.bsky.social Me & @michaelakralova.bsky.social wrote about publishing & translation, focusing on the sexy topic of metadata :-) www.erudit.org/en/journals/...

pals please repost and share with your friends and students if relevant

Interested nonfiction writers! Do you have a book project you'd like to get off the ground but aren't sure where to start? I'll be offering one-on-one consultations from February! DM me here or contact me through my website to discuss if it could be right for you

“You can’t cut one in ten staff without damaging students and teaching.” 85% of University of Essex staff have voted for strike action over plans to cut 400 jobs and close the Southend campus. Show your support and solidarity as they prepare to fight back. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1432...

We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages. Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below. Application deadline: 15 February, 2026 buff.ly/yibsATf

SUCH a book. So glad it's out in this new edition

The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win

Still plenty of time to submit an abstract for the BACLS New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies graduate conference at The University of Leeds on May 20th for PGRs and ECRs! Please share widely call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/... @bacls.bsky.social @maxrshirley.bsky.social

Love this essay by Ann Patchett about decluttering, getting rid, and giving things away

The Palestine hunger strikers have been on hunger strike for over 60 days and are close to death. They have not even been convicted of a crime - they are being held on remand (pre-trial) for more than twice the max time allowed, and counting…🧵

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Sharing the obligatory new year's post over on the ol' Substack

Sharing the obligatory new year's post over on the ol' Substack

Anyone any recommendations for food/drink/child-friendly activities in Hastings?

Just received a message from a reader telling me that they are enjoying my book: the loveliest little Christmas gift for a writer! We should all be doing this for each other I reckon

Just received a message from a reader telling me that they are enjoying my book: the loveliest little Christmas gift for a writer! We should all be doing this for each other I reckon

An interview with @randongenerator.bsky.social and @sandropology.bsky.social, the guest editors of our latest issue 'Novel Media / Media Novel' 👩🏽‍💻🧑🏽‍💻👨🏽‍💻 c21.openlibhums.org/news/873/

I challenge you to think of one thing you would less like to do

When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!

In collaboration with UK Small Press Futures – a collective of UK independent publishers – Wasafiri is hosting an afternoon of panels dedicated to the future of independent presses. When: Wed, 21 January, 2-6pm GMT Where: BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London Tickets: £15 buff.ly/YJJorHv

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork