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Book mail! New goodies by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social and Rebecca Burns from Dahlia Publishing!

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Free festival of activities and author/illustrator events ahead of Empathy Day on 12th June. See the whole programme here: empathylab.uk/empathy-day/ @empathylabuk.bsky.social

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Anyone saying ‘DEI’ here in the UK is telling you very directly where their hate is imported from.

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The Week Ahead at #SoAatHome: The last few years have seen enormous growth in video content in marketing, and this trend is only set to continue. Join Anna Caig as she leads 'Professional Development – Video content in book marketing' on 3 June at 10am 🧵

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Happy to receive my copy of 'Bring Me Gold', 50 Poems for Palestine. Thanks to publisher @farhanashaikh.bsky.social at Dahlia Books, all the £10 cover price goes to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social. Includes my #SWWJ prize-winning poem, 'You're Breaking Up'. Buy link in bio 💛 #poetry #palestine

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Very pleased to be here at @curveleicester.bsky.social on a freezing day for the warm, lovely and inspiring Platform conference! Thank you to @farhanashaikh.bsky.social and the Middle Way Mentoring scheme middlewaymentoring.co.uk/platform-con...

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Thank you @simonandschuster.bsky.social UK for sending me a copy of Wild Magic: Legend of the Black Lion. Family Haddow LOVED it! #AbiolaBello and #EmmaMcCann have created a funny, gorgeous story full of heart that’s perfect for young readers, especially animal lovers. This one is out now! 🫶🏾

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GIVEAWAY Feeling blue because you can't make it to the conference? This is your chance to nab a tote bag (worth £30). To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is reply with your excuse in the comments. The person with the best excuse wins!

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Usborne has won a “fierce” four-way auction for Echostrike, a middle-grade action-adventure spy series by debut author Yusof Hassan. 👇 #BookSky

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Visited our Bristol Venue today — lovely Trinity College — on a recce with our fab new caterer. The only lit fest entirely devoted to #flashfiction. Open to anyone interested. Workshops, panels, readings, bookshop, contest, raffle, bar, karaoke, fun — book now at flashfictionfestival.com

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This Saturday, in Leicester! Line-up looks amazing! ❤️

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NEW! We're open for submissions for our new journal, The Joy of Nothingness. All contributors will receive a flat fee of £1k regardless of word count. To save us all time, we encourage shorter works. Only submissions sent by carrier pigeon will be accepted. Closes 1/4 12PM.

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Take a look! A conference for writers of colour 👀⏬ Platform aims to inspire and encourage writers of colour with advice from publishing experts. Brought to you by @farhanashaikh.bsky.social, Dahlia Books and Middleway Mentoring. More info ➡️ buff.ly/RxyCjJO

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An item on BBC Radio 4 said poetry publishing's booming - thanks to TikTok. BUT what about public readings? I've been stunned by the response to monthly poetry evenings I've been organising. Tickets (30) for the first even went in 4 days, the next 4 hours - the latest 2 hours 10 minutes!

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The cover for my next book, WILD JOURNEY! Huge thanks to @joe.lillington for this amazing cover and illustrations inside! And to @theweekjunior for the grand reveal - a first for the magazine and truly an honour for me ❤️❤️❤️ Available to preorder now! geni.us/WildJourney

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📣 There's less than 10 days to go until the Platform Conference for Writers of Colour, a day-long event designed to inspire and nourish your creative soul. 📅 Saturday 5 April ⏳️10 am - 5pm 🎭 Curve Theatre, #Leicester Grab your ticket for just £50: middlewaymentoring.co.uk/platform-con...

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Pulse Magazine's Issue 3 has LAUNCHED 🚀✨ Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/WEMPULSE Featuring @rodduncan.bsky.social, @helenmort.bsky.social, @amirdarwish.bsky.social, @holocaustmuseumuk.bsky.social and more! Can words have the power to change the world? 🌍 Find out in Issue 3: Writing as Activism!

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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m... Depressing, but we have to keep pushing and trying. #blackbritishwriters #blackauthors #blackwriters

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‼️Four days until Intense Fascination‼️ THE online festival hosted by Beyond The Spectrum featuring talks, panels and workshops focused on creative writing and Autism. Buy your tickets before it's too late! bit.ly/INTENSEFASCI...

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If you're under 5ft 2, you'll understand how this book feels

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Only 7 DAYS till the 2025 award closes.1st prize is £1200, out of a £1750 prize fund. This year’s judges are literary agents Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold from C&W Agency (Lucy also judged our award in 2014). Submit up to 2200 words on any theme/subject. www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/03/24/d...

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I've just updated the apersonalanthology.com website with Dianna Grosser’s excellent selection of a dozen favourite short stories. Featuring Personal Anthology debuts for: Amélie Nothomb Alberto Savinio and James Turner So congrats to them!

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It’s been a fantastic first week for Saltburn. Been to a book fair, featured on a blog, is stocked in some bookshops, some reviewers on board. A huge thank you to everyone who has bought, shared pics, commented, liked. As always, very much appreciated. 🙏🙏🙏🙏 renardpress.com/books/saltbu...

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Our friends @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social are offering three under-represented writers an opportunity to attend the Creative Thursday writing day at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2025 for free. Applications are now open and the full details can be found here:

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Had a fantastic time at the States of Independence festival at De Montfort University, and an agent one to one with the ever-knowledgeable Oli Munson. Thank you @farhanashaikh.bsky.social and many others for doing what you do. Your event helps so many writers and artists grow and learn.

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Rose Ruane’s ‘Birding’ is the story of two women untangling damaging details of their past in the hope of a better future. Learn more about Rose’s inspirations, writing process and favourite books here: linktr.ee/womensprize

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Brilliant day at States of Independence in #DMU today. Everything went better than I'd even hoped. Sold books and prints. Gave a workshop - well received. Fabulous company. Now utterly exhausted.

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Had a fantastic day at the States of Independence Book Fair. Sold some books. Got invited to some events. Met some lovely people. Gave away some Tunnock Tea Cakes Saltburn is go!!! @renardpress.bsky.social

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Me and Saltburn will be making our first public appearance at the States of Independence book fair at De Montfort University Saturday 22 March from 10am - 4pm. Please share & come along. Free entry @farhanashaikh.bsky.social @renardpress.bsky.social #BookSky www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/states-of-...

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One day conference for Writers of Colour taking place in Leicester on 5th April. Details below. Brilliant that Farhana is putting this on! She is a force of publishing nature.

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@mslexia.bsky.social thank you for sharing!

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If anyone has been following my printmaking journey over the last 2 years and would like to buy a piece, I'll be having a stall selling books and prints at States of Independence next Saturday in Leicester. leicestercentreforcreativewriting.our.dmu.ac.uk/states-of-in...

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Honoured to be judging! Send stories to make me laugh (or cry, if you must) or to marvel at Or all of these things together…

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The Platform Conference for Writers of Colour is back on Sat 5th April. Join us for this day-long event, which aims to support and encourage with advice and inspiration. Check out the programme and book your ticket: middlewaymentoring.co.uk/platform-con...

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Happy world book day! Join us for Platform Conference for Writers of Colour, a day-long event, which aims to support and encourage with advice and inspiration. Takes place in #Leicester on 5th April. Check out the programme and book your ticket: middlewaymentoring.co.uk/platform-con...

Book mail! New goodies by @kazbarwrites.bsky.social and Rebecca Burns from Dahlia Publishing!

Free festival of activities and author/illustrator events ahead of Empathy Day on 12th June. See the whole programme here: empathylab.uk/empathy-day/ @empathylabuk.bsky.social

Anyone saying ‘DEI’ here in the UK is telling you very directly where their hate is imported from.

The Week Ahead at #SoAatHome: The last few years have seen enormous growth in video content in marketing, and this trend is only set to continue. Join Anna Caig as she leads 'Professional Development – Video content in book marketing' on 3 June at 10am 🧵

Happy to receive my copy of 'Bring Me Gold', 50 Poems for Palestine. Thanks to publisher @farhanashaikh.bsky.social at Dahlia Books, all the £10 cover price goes to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social. Includes my #SWWJ prize-winning poem, 'You're Breaking Up'. Buy link in bio 💛 #poetry #palestine

Very pleased to be here at @curveleicester.bsky.social on a freezing day for the warm, lovely and inspiring Platform conference! Thank you to @farhanashaikh.bsky.social and the Middle Way Mentoring scheme middlewaymentoring.co.uk/platform-con...

GIVEAWAY Feeling blue because you can't make it to the conference? This is your chance to nab a tote bag (worth £30). To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is reply with your excuse in the comments. The person with the best excuse wins!

Usborne has won a “fierce” four-way auction for Echostrike, a middle-grade action-adventure spy series by debut author Yusof Hassan. 👇 #BookSky

Visited our Bristol Venue today — lovely Trinity College — on a recce with our fab new caterer. The only lit fest entirely devoted to #flashfiction. Open to anyone interested. Workshops, panels, readings, bookshop, contest, raffle, bar, karaoke, fun — book now at flashfictionfestival.com

This Saturday, in Leicester! Line-up looks amazing! ❤️

NEW! We're open for submissions for our new journal, The Joy of Nothingness. All contributors will receive a flat fee of £1k regardless of word count. To save us all time, we encourage shorter works. Only submissions sent by carrier pigeon will be accepted. Closes 1/4 12PM.

Take a look! A conference for writers of colour 👀⏬ Platform aims to inspire and encourage writers of colour with advice from publishing experts. Brought to you by @farhanashaikh.bsky.social, Dahlia Books and Middleway Mentoring. More info ➡️ buff.ly/RxyCjJO

An item on BBC Radio 4 said poetry publishing's booming - thanks to TikTok. BUT what about public readings? I've been stunned by the response to monthly poetry evenings I've been organising. Tickets (30) for the first even went in 4 days, the next 4 hours - the latest 2 hours 10 minutes!

The cover for my next book, WILD JOURNEY! Huge thanks to @joe.lillington for this amazing cover and illustrations inside! And to @theweekjunior for the grand reveal - a first for the magazine and truly an honour for me ❤️❤️❤️ Available to preorder now! geni.us/WildJourney

Pulse Magazine's Issue 3 has LAUNCHED 🚀✨ Read it here ➡️ bit.ly/WEMPULSE Featuring @rodduncan.bsky.social, @helenmort.bsky.social, @amirdarwish.bsky.social, @holocaustmuseumuk.bsky.social and more! Can words have the power to change the world? 🌍 Find out in Issue 3: Writing as Activism!

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m... Depressing, but we have to keep pushing and trying. #blackbritishwriters #blackauthors #blackwriters

‼️Four days until Intense Fascination‼️ THE online festival hosted by Beyond The Spectrum featuring talks, panels and workshops focused on creative writing and Autism. Buy your tickets before it's too late! bit.ly/INTENSEFASCI...

If you're under 5ft 2, you'll understand how this book feels

Only 7 DAYS till the 2025 award closes.1st prize is £1200, out of a £1750 prize fund. This year’s judges are literary agents Lucy Luck and Liv Bignold from C&W Agency (Lucy also judged our award in 2014). Submit up to 2200 words on any theme/subject. www.bathshortstoryaward.org/2025/03/24/d...

I've just updated the apersonalanthology.com website with Dianna Grosser’s excellent selection of a dozen favourite short stories. Featuring Personal Anthology debuts for: Amélie Nothomb Alberto Savinio and James Turner So congrats to them!

Our friends @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social are offering three under-represented writers an opportunity to attend the Creative Thursday writing day at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2025 for free. Applications are now open and the full details can be found here:

Had a fantastic time at the States of Independence festival at De Montfort University, and an agent one to one with the ever-knowledgeable Oli Munson. Thank you @farhanashaikh.bsky.social and many others for doing what you do. Your event helps so many writers and artists grow and learn.

Rose Ruane’s ‘Birding’ is the story of two women untangling damaging details of their past in the hope of a better future. Learn more about Rose’s inspirations, writing process and favourite books here: linktr.ee/womensprize

Brilliant day at States of Independence in #DMU today. Everything went better than I'd even hoped. Sold books and prints. Gave a workshop - well received. Fabulous company. Now utterly exhausted.

Had a fantastic day at the States of Independence Book Fair. Sold some books. Got invited to some events. Met some lovely people. Gave away some Tunnock Tea Cakes Saltburn is go!!! @renardpress.bsky.social

Me and Saltburn will be making our first public appearance at the States of Independence book fair at De Montfort University Saturday 22 March from 10am - 4pm. Please share & come along. Free entry @farhanashaikh.bsky.social @renardpress.bsky.social #BookSky www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/states-of-...

One day conference for Writers of Colour taking place in Leicester on 5th April. Details below. Brilliant that Farhana is putting this on! She is a force of publishing nature.

@mslexia.bsky.social thank you for sharing!

If anyone has been following my printmaking journey over the last 2 years and would like to buy a piece, I'll be having a stall selling books and prints at States of Independence next Saturday in Leicester. leicestercentreforcreativewriting.our.dmu.ac.uk/states-of-in...

Honoured to be judging! Send stories to make me laugh (or cry, if you must) or to marvel at Or all of these things together…

The Platform Conference for Writers of Colour is back on Sat 5th April. Join us for this day-long event, which aims to support and encourage with advice and inspiration. Check out the programme and book your ticket: middlewaymentoring.co.uk/platform-con...

Happy world book day! Join us for Platform Conference for Writers of Colour, a day-long event, which aims to support and encourage with advice and inspiration. Takes place in #Leicester on 5th April. Check out the programme and book your ticket: middlewaymentoring.co.uk/platform-con...

Sounds like a supportive and valuable conference on April 5th

This looks great - please share :)