Calling all poets aged 13-25: join us for our next Young Poets Takeover!

Featuring headline sets from Foylers and YPNers, plus our signature open mic.

📅 Saturday 1 June, 2pm doors
📍The Poetry Cafe, London
🎟️Free, book at bit.ly/Takeover2024

Be careful, social media will have you caring about some shit you don’t care about.

when this guy did “whaaaat i never knew thaaaaat” about the cocaine being sold out of a shop in Bristol 😭

It's here: the 13th and final issue of bath magg is now live 🦆🛁🚀

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“what struck me most about those who are protesting is how long they waited. the restraint they showed. not the spontaneity, the restraint. they waited and waited for justice. and it didn’t come. no one talks about that...” - Toni Morrison

So many reasons I feel strongly about this. But setting moral and political specifics aside and just focussing on the question of what issues are and are not within the remit of Society of Authors I am grateful for this clarification of the facts from yara rodrigues fowler and Sarah Bernstein:

sensational.

Harvard students aren’t backing down from their solidarity with Palestine, even as the admin has tried to stop them.

BT spoke to one of the student organizers of the “Occupy Old Yard” encampment for Gaza about why they’re protesting.

Are there any poets who have written collections on a lived experience of homelessness/poverty? I've been asked by a charity to put forward several poets who'd be interested in taking part in a number of events later this year. DMs are open if people want to get in touch.

This is a great piece.

We are looking to publish and champion Black women writers who bridge the gap between “creativity” and “theory” with work that is both rigorous and beautiful, creative and thoughtful.

Learn more about the Global Black Women's Non-fiction Manuscript Prize
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Join us in Weston-super-Mare on Thursday for a night of electric spoken word poetry! Featuring 3 of the very best acts on the UK scene.

Starring Laurie Bolger, Vanessa Kisuule & Kat Lyons.

🎟️ PAYF (suggested £12)
ticketsource.co.uk/frontroomwsm/l…

Tomorrow! I'll be in Bristol Central Library to chat to everyone who fancies it about why books are great and thebplaces that stories can take us :-)
Come along and let's co-create a poem!

Bristol Libraries

Sarah Bernstein & I have written a short article for Verso Books about the vote on supporting a ceasefire at the Society of Authors EGM on the 2nd May.

Now is the time for us - as writers - to unite for Palestine & make sure our union represent us

versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

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one thing you will learn in your early to mid twenties is that you have to stop assuming someone has the same values as you just bc they look like you. you’ll know a person’s values through consistent actions, not shared identities

Doggystyling off of that last point you said…

I can understand how someone could come to this opinion if they're intimidated by intelligent, confident, astute Black women

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We're coming to Front Room WSM on Thu 25 Apr! Join us for our first-ever LIVEwire Weston event as we present a night of electric spoken word poetry.

Starring Laurie Bolger, Vanessa Kisuule & Kat Lyons!

ticketsource.co.uk/frontroomwsm/t…

there is no other room

Absolutely cannot be arsed with pub/kid/dog discourse but I do feel strongly that more pubs should have a large tabby cat that sleeps on the bar and opens one eye with disdain as you approach.