Just started The Parisian and noticed #IsabellaHammad has been longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize, for Enter Ghost.

If those banging the drum for conservation might think about social justice&how the two are connected maybe more people would get on board? Only a very few nature writers, for example, seem to have commented on Gaza.Yet it’s human &ecological disaster. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Why should writers in the UK celebrate international writers? Here’s RSL Fellow and #InternationalWriters judge @natteitler to tell you more!
There are just a few weeks left to make your recommendations for this year’s RSL International Writers➡️➡️ bit.ly/IW_2024

📢The 2024 RSL Ondaatje Prize longlist is here🎇

For 20 years, the Prize has awarded £10,000 to a book that evokes the spirit of a place.

Huge congratulations to the 14 longlisted titles, chosen by judges Jan Carson, Xialou Guo, and Francis Spufford (also a past RSL Ondaatje

🚨🚨🚨This Thursday, 25th April, is the launch of The Review, an editorially independent bi-annual insert in The Bookseller, produced by and featuring writers of the global majority.

Brought to you by Jhalak Prize and writersmosaic

Gave a talk today to a small class of university students and I think it went OK! I really enjoyed myself and the students were wonderfully engaged and asked lots of questions. (Also thanks Abi Fellows 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ for your thoughts re agenting and publishing generally, which I shared. 🙂)

On Monday my friend מעוז معوز Maoz & I had a conversation on TED stage. The video was just released. Both of us had family members killed but remain committed to peacemaking. Please share & amplify our message because it’s rarely seen on mainstream media

ted.com/talks/aziz_abu…

This story might help those who struggle to understand the moral case for reparations - those who query why people today, who have had nothing themselves to do with slavery, should have any responsibility to people who were never enslaved.

Conservative MP Richard Drax is worth

Yesterday, I went to Yinka Shonibare‘s Suspended States, Serpentine. It’s full of visually arresting and thought-provoking creations, like his jaw-dropping War Library and his striking colonial figures. Definitely a must-see, and for the film of his work. #consciousart

I miss the days when #BookTwitter was a majority positive, supportive space. So if I can help with anything, let me know. I'm an author Pan Macmillan, editor @TheBookseller, run #FutureBook & @BigBookWeekend, & I mentor/edit writers. Background: tech & marketing. My door is open

What is faraway& for whom? So much narrative non-fiction that revolves around a physical journey doesn’t fall under conventional travel writing : tales of exile& belonging, crossover with food and nature writing. Perhaps a new name is needed for contemporary travel literature.

Night Crow #art #painting #ColorfulArt #bird

Just a few of my colleagues in the north we all have been working tirelessly for the past 191 days. They are great, brave journalists on the ground who haven’t taken a single day off , amplify Palestinian journalists 🇵🇸

For a thing, I’m looking to speak to visual artists from the U.K. who have been forced to relocate to a new city/country because of rising costs. #journorequest

Thank you Jini Reddy for speaking to my Write The Book group this evening. We are feeling inspired by you

For a full year, the bodies have piled up in Sudan – and still the world looks away | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

On the day Israel bombed a foreign embassy in a third country, it also killed World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers. Israel is crossing every possible red line, still with full impunity.
Sanctions now.
Indictements now.