Does anyone have an example of a project partner letter of support they could send me that they used for a AHRC or UKRI application? Not sure of the form / what is expected, thank you so much if so…

"Like an underground river, small presses are a source of deep life for the literary industry. However, they are facing a severe crisis that is now draining them dry, down to the riverbed"

"Small-press publishers’ passion for and understanding of literature, combined with the creative, diverse and alternative perspectives and spaces that they provide through their books, means that like an underground river they are a source of deep life for the literary industry."

Great article & message. Small presses are the art form's bulwark against the oligarchic decay infecting all sides of our culture. Shop at indie bookstores that spotlight indie books. Ask your local library to carry them. Buy from them directly! Keep the spark alive

+++ article about the necessity of small presses, now more than ever!

Excellent article, goes with my constant drumbeat of supporting libraries, indie bookstores, small presses, self-published authors, little free libraries... all the literary ecosystem that's under attack and needs to be defended. Corporate conglomerate publishing will not save us. We must save us.

"This could also include reforming distribution models that only serve large publishers" YES FUCKING PLEASE

Gods below & above, do we feel seen by this passage or what🖤☠️

"small-press publishers are the spirit that animates our literature. [They] put on the most community-led, exciting and engaging literary events, forming life-giving networks that sustain the industry at large" yes! yes!

Re: taking risks on books large publishers wouldn’t. My book Excavation was rejected by ~30 traditional publishing editors before a small press (@futuretensebooks.bsky.social) picked it up. It went on to sell about 10k copies before I sold it to @nupress.bsky.social.

Me and @eireannmor.bsky.social went with the sister analogy of the "undercanopy" here, to similar effect. We want to see more water, more life, more weird books www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

I am extremely proud of & committed to being a small press author (& extremely thrilled that BAD LANGUAGE is in the pic alongside comrades like Nisha Ramayya). It's a community, an ethic & method -- it doesn't need to be more commercial, it needs more recognition & less going up against monopolies.

The only small thing about small presses is their budgets and amount of support from an increasingly two-tier industry.

wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do! www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...

The industry is not supporting small-press publishers enough, not because it ought to, but because small-press publishing is the future of book production in this country, says Lucy Mercer in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky

"Small-press publishers’ passion for and understanding of literature, combined with the creative, diverse and alternative perspectives and spaces that they provide through their books, means that like an underground river they are a source of deep life for the literary industry."

wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do! www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...

A century after his death, BBC R3 have produced a special feature on the composer Erik Satie, the subject of Ian Penman's latest book. Listen to the episode here and find ERIK SATIE THREE PIECE SUITE on our website: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

What thrills me the most about this win—I honestly can't stop reading up about it from across a continent and an ocean—is the prospect that leftist policies CAN find voters and the world CAN change

the plan is to distract and deflect and overwhelm and numb until everyone is dead. and then they will say it’s in the past, and they will move into Gaza, and the western machinery will roll on as it always has. hard not to see proscribing Palestine Action is part of this plan

❤️❤️❤️ finally some good news

The best ( @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social ) is here to clear up a very confused discourse

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there’s a man who plays his flute to his dog when he walks it at night in the park next to my house. Can hardly see him in the gloom & his flute sounds like Totoro’s flute. I am convinced he is the Totoro of Croydon

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik

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This entire thread is illuminating.

Kim Hyesoon reads from Autobiography of Death, trans. Don Mee Choi & in conversation w Will Harris @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk ✨

"When global consulting firm Nous Group arrives at a university, the company blueprint is always the same: weaken the academe, centralise power and cut staff." Purely accidental that that's happening here, obviously. After they deemed Schools' autonomy a 'problem' nousgroup.com/case-studies...

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Congrats to @olibasciano.bsky.social on the launch of his brilliant book OUTCAST @faberbooks.bsky.social ✨

Helen Bessette’s novel Lili Is Crying beautifully translated by Kate Briggs @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social is one of my new favourite books ever & it could be one of yours too

😂 couldn’t make this up honestly

beautiful sumoud convoy is the future 💖

"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda." for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

You can buy a copy of The Age of Olive Trees here: outspokenldn.com/shop/haia All proceeds go to support the poet in Gaza.

All paramedics in this photo were killed tonight by lsrael in Gaza.

the UK govt won’t comment on the Madleen as if it is minor but the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office (FCDO) have now dedicated an entire phone line option to it, plays you an automated message and hangs up. That is the #1 option on their phoneline right now for consular assistance

Moving towards a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education! UCU Congress voted to support a national trade dispute with the government over the Higher Education funding crisis. Motion & further info: lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=... JOIN to discuss next steps 3 June, 6pm: lu.ma/zs6bklhz 🧵

Wow - this looks so good!! ‘In recent decades, a critical turn to infrastructure across the humanities and social sciences has taken place at the same time as the infrastructures of emancipatory knowledge production have been steadily annexed, disciplined, and dismantled….’

Maria Eagle, Minister of State for Defence Procurement and Industry spoke at a private event hosted at the British Museum on Wednesday for Israel Independence Day and was filmed saying the UK “stood with Israel, with the RAF conducting surveillance flights over the Eastern Mediterranean”. #r4today

Announcing Issue 06: Resistance, now available for pre-order. Essays by Fady Joudah, Jamieson Webster, Dylan Saba, Yasmin El-Riafe, Ussama Makdisi, Mary Turfah, Hannah Proctor, & more. For full TOC: www.parapraxismagazine.com/magazine To pre-order: www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...

This week, as the government defends in court its sale of F-35 parts used in Gaza — and as famine threatens a starving population — it blocked my bill to suspend arms sales to Israel. The reckoning will come. Ministers will be held accountable for their complicity in genocide.

“Everything goes the wrong way. I don’t know how happy people do it. I wanted to make something happen. I’d had enough. Enough. And so I left. I swapped one master for another.” From Lili Is Crying, which will be published next month by New Directions. buff.ly/Zexyoeg

I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Digital galleys are HERE for Close Reading for the 21C, which I co-edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. You know you want it, want to review it. Write to barbara_tonetti [at] press [dot] princeton [dot] edu. Look at that gorgeous slate of contributors! Get it!