This database of scholarships open to displaced Palestinian students has just come to my attention – docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Look out for Lancaster Litfest's Autumn Weekend (18–25 Oct) – with events by Jacqueline Harris (with Maja Bugge ), Katherine Woodfine Updates, Eoghan & the Poetry Pamphlet competition, Prof Sharon Ruston & Humphry Davy's Notebooks, Jonathan Healey, Catriona Ward is writing, Guadalupe Nettel, Rosalind Harvey and Joe Boyd.

Painful to hear Nick Thomas-Symonds making terrible job of trying to defend the utterly indefensible on BBC Radio 4 Today - deducting prison food & living costs from compensation paid to people wrongly imprisoned is simply obscene. Come on Labour - people expect better

To stay on X or to go, now that Musk has turned this platform into an incubator for fascism? I don't blame anyone for leaving. But I'm staying. Why? Because of this solid political principle: *Never let the far right drive you out of any space.*

Wishing a very happy birthday to our incredible ambassador - and co-founder of Flock Together - Ollie Olanipekun! 🎉 Ollie is doing awesome work to empower communities and make birdwatching a diverse, accessible & welcoming space. Thank you - and have a fantastic day!

My followers are crashing... Because people are leaving this place? Because the algorithm is working against me? Because this site is blocking people from following me (that's already happened)? Please help me reach out to followers I've lost by RTing. And let's try to keep this

Opening with Arts Council England-backed Jacqueline Harris, taking in @CamilleRalphs, Catriona Ward is writing Guadalupe Nettel and ending with the great Joe Boyd talking about his mighty tome And the Roots of Rhythm Remain - not to be missed!

Looking forward to Penguin Books UK’ new edition of Gerald Martin’s translation of 1967 Nobel Laureate Miguel Angel Asturias’s Men of Maize in September.

If you've read The Postcard by Anne Berest (tr. Tina Kover) and would like the chance to discuss the book with the translator, there's just time to join Lancaster Litfest International Fiction Online Book Club on Mon 19 Aug, 6.30pm (UK time). To join📩[email protected]

6.30pm, on 16/9 📚 Lancaster Litfest International Fiction Online Book Club will discuss 🇮🇹 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's modern classic The Leopard (tr. 🇬🇧Archibald Colquhoun, Vintage Books). First published in 1958, it has delighted readers ever since. ALL WELCOME: 📩 [email protected]

⚡️BREAKING⚡️ Brilliant news - the High Court has ruled against the Whitehaven coal mine!! Huge congrats to all who campaigned against it & to ⁦Friends of the Earth⁩ & ⁦KendalTransition⁩ for bringing the case. The fossil fuel era is over. #KeepItInTheGround bbc.com/news/articles/…

“Novels are a great space to not be sure about things” - a terrific interview with “grunge Jane Austen” Virginie Despentes. DEAR DICKHEAD trs ⁦frank wynne 🏳️‍🌈⁩ ⁦MacLehose Press⁩ ⁦Farrar,Straus&Giroux⁩ theguardian.com/books/2024/sep…