Coming up! Just before this autumn's BBC TV drama adaptation of my 2013 novel Mr Loverman (Penguin Books UK). Looking forward to being interviewed by the novelist Okechuckwu Nzelu. Book Club with Bernardine Evaristo: Mr Loverman theguardian.com/guardian-live-…

🚨 Application alert! The Internship Grant Application deadline has been extended from Tuesday, April 30th to Sunday, May 7th!️

Learn more about how you can apply & find our current partner summer internship openings at the link below!

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We want to help foster a welcoming and supportive network and community for German to English #translators at all stages of their careers.

Find out more about what we do: buff.ly/3uzeY64

#VerseNovel enthusiasts, a shout out for this wonderful #MG #VerseNovel THE ORDER OF THINGS by Kaija Langley Kaija Langley

Dean Atta has been called “a poet of the finest order, a most tender, passionate and powerful voice, a light in the twenty-first century” by Salena Godden and his work “There is (still) love here” has been called vulnerable, tender, openhearted and life-affirming by Pascale Petit FRSL🍉🕊️🌱🍓

Please join us 9TH MAY for an evening of poetry in translation OCC Transport celebrating the publication of our very own Alejandra Quintana Arocho's translation of Ojo en celo by Margarita Pintado Burgos, with readings by Alejandra, Adriana X Jacobs, @jenniferwcreative, and Georgie Fooks

🌟 Excited to announce that award-winning author and poet Dean Atta will be joining us at the @EuropeanWritersFestial 2024! 📚 Representing #Cyprus , Dean's powerful storytelling promises to captivate audiences at the @BritishLibrary, on May 18-19. Don't miss it! 🎉EUNIC LONDON

To all the poetic peeps out there, spaces are filling up! Come aboard the poetry train. 😊

💥candice iloh .Margarita Engle

I will be speaking about #maryannsate Unbound in #painswick evening of 2nd May. Book was runner up for the £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize. Hope to see you there!
#stroud #cotswolds #writingcommunity #histfic #litfic

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Join us Monday for a conversation about strong girl characters.
This free presentation by the SLJ editorial team features Linda Sue Park, Christina Soontornvat and Hena Khan. Moderated by Elisa Ung.

#aapi #aapi heritagemonth
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We are currently accepting applications for our Breakthrough Mentoring Programme for Writers of Colour ⬇️

Across nine-months, four aspiring authors will receive one-to-one guidance from a published author-mentor, plus a tutorial with a literary agent.

curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/breakth…

Wrap up National Poetry Month with this Meet-the-Author recording from Kwame Alexander discussing his book Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets. share.teachingbooks.net/QL88E4U

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers are invited to apply for the American Australian Association/FNAWN Writer in Residence Fellowship.

The US $40,000 6-month program offers a unique opportunity to immerse oneself creatively in the US.

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In the #USA , PEN America recorded 4,349 instances of #BookBans across 23 states and 52 public schools, primarily targeting books on sexual violence, LGBTQ narratives, and race-related themes. Learn more about censorship in the USA: pen-international.org/news/pens-glob…

#VerseNovel enthusiasts don’t miss this chance to hear 📚🧁🔅 Rajani LaRocca 💗⚾️🧬 read from her wonderful #VerseNovel RED, WHITE, AND WHOLE.

Congratulations to all on British Branford Boase 2024 (new “Own Voices” creators) short list of 6 bks. including #VerseNovel THE FINAL YEAR by Matt Goodfellow Matt Goodfellow and edited by Charlotte Hacking Charlotte Hacking
(Otter-Barry Books)

Enjoy some #MG & #YA #VerseNovel #audiobooks including those by Dean Atta Betty Culley Colby Cedar Smith Carole Boston Weatherford Margarita Engle 💥candice iloh Elisabet Velasquez, Tina Cane, Laekan Zea Kemp, Juleah del Rosario Irene Latham Charles Waters Colby Cedar Smith Kip Wilson Elizabeth Acevedo

Wonderful to see #MG & #YA #VerseNovel s such as Andrea Beatriz Arango’s SOMETHING LIKE HOME available at Listening Library Heads up #VerseNovel enthusiasts inc Diverse Verse Wellington Library Public Libraries NZ Reading Australia Moonee Valley Libraries LibrarianForTheAges SCSD Middle School Librarians IBBY

I love this poem in this quarter's Poetry Review ...and it's always delightful to be introduced to new (to me) poets. The Poetry Society