Just read 'The Honeymoon'. Pretty sure I didn't (couldn't) breathe throughout. Stunning. A worthy winner.
Thanks Deborah. Kit was there. Hope you're well and see you at an event soonest
Stoked that my short story set in the Cevennes, 'Épisodes', was highly commended in this year's Bridport Prize, reaching the top 13 from 5,000 entries.
Looking forward to devouring the other winners in the anthology.
#shortstories #bridportprize
Palestinians called on the world to #DisruptComplicity in Israel’s apartheid and genocide between 18-21 September. The world answered.
Keep up the momentum: we call for escalating disruptive BDS actions against complicit states, corporations and institutions.
A curated list of some of the most scintillating short stories I've read. You're welcome.
Have you ever tried to read it? The prose is excruciatingly vacuous; I assumed a child had written it.
Watched this Louis Theroux documentary the other night; brilliant exposé of colonial settler “state” of Israel & its vicious campaign to steal the land of Palestine.
Highly recommended.
Submissions are open until midnight on 30 June:
"No arms shipments should be allowed to Israel. Full stop."
Speaking before the UN, Saleh Hijazi, from the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), applauded global civil society efforts for a military embargo on Israel — and pressured states to meet their legal obligations by imposing one.
We did this. Proud of everyone who signed
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
People's Strike.
I knew it: there aren't any.
WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.
This feckin' book 💛
In a movement that swept the world, communities mobilised and protested against apartheid, including people in Britain.
We’re seeing the same resistance rise across cities in the UK today.
Apartheid is, was and will always be a crime against humanity.
Let's hold the enablers of Israel's genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, apartheid and illegal occupation accountable - in the courts and through popular mobilization.
#MilitaryEmbargo Now!
We’re delighted to announce that award-winning novelist Kamila Shamsie will deliver the 2025 #PENLecture in partnership with @newwritingnorth.bsky.social & @nclanews.bsky.social.
Join us at 6pm on 19 June, at Culture Lab, Newcastle University.
Book now ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/events...
If you do just one thing to push back against Amazon, make it buying your books elsewhere.
“I did not yet know the difference between English and Arabic, or how some words might become—borders, weapons, traps.” Sarah Aziza on what it means to be a Palestinian writer today.
It's back! 🎤 📣🎤
Bookings now open for our next online salon hosted by @kiklodge.bsky.social
🎙 Excellent readings
❓️ Highly serious quiz
🤝 Friendly community
Get in touch quickly if you want to read. Spots v limited.
Theme = Road Signs.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
We have removed Tenderfoot Tactics from sale on @xbox.com in solidarity with @bdsmovement.bsky.social . We call on others in our community to do whatever they can to fight this historic injustice. Free Palestine 🍉
‘On the 354th day of this genocide, we are still nowhere near an “after” that allows for material speculation’
Gaza: Indigenous Urbanism Amid Elimination Nour Joudah
Native American and Indigenous Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2025
DOI: doi.org/10.1353/nai....
‘The Gaza Strip…is a periphery filled with a people refusing the margins, and defying the colonial delusion that they can be rendered peripheral, disposable collateral.’
Nour Joudah
www.academia.edu/128883092/Gaza_Indigenous_Urbanism_Amid_Elimination
If you ever ask yourself can poetry help people, or help the world, here is your chance to make some difference by buying a book of poems written in Gaza during genocide. All profits go directly to the poet and her family. Order from @outspokenpress.bsky.social
Only ONE place left for this online Prose poetry workshop with fantastic tutor @julieirigaray.bsky.social
After that, we'll hold a waitlist and maybe re-run if demand so do sign up to write and learn with writers from across Europe.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-introdu...
Exciting collaboration between two of our favourite bookstores @desperatelit.bsky.social
and @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social
www.thebookseller.com/rights/cheer...
Our bursary places sold out very quickly, so we've added some more for Sat/Sun only.
Take a look! We would love to meet you.
Here’s my new flash fiction, A Relief Map of the World’ published by: @fictivedream.bsky.social
fictivedream.com/2025/04/18/a...
The recent surge in boycott and divestment campaigns targeting US companies is a chance to connect struggles.
Join us and stand against colonialism, racist supremacy and the denial of rights in all its forms, whether in Palestine or beyond.
