#NLLC2023 Longlist Announcement! Congratulations to this year's longlisted writers Juno Baker #KoushikBanerjea Andrew Blackman Steve Brody Cause of Accident #RadostinaChristova @DrJennyEpstein Cara Finegan 🏳️‍🌈 @Carabbelle #EleanorO'Reilly & #OliTownsend. 🙏🙏to Blackbird Books & Diane Chandler

Author Spotlight! Congratulations to Andrew Blackman for making the longlist for this year's Novel London Literary Competition with his novel #RefugeesWelcome To find out more about Andrew, visit andrewblackman.net #Fiction #NLLC2023 #WritingCommunity

🎉Exciting news! The shortlist for #NLLC2023 is here! #Congratulations to all the remarkable writers Juno Baker #KoushikBanerjea Andrew Blackman Steve Brody #RadostinaChristova & Cara Finegan 🏳️‍🌈 @Carabbelle. Special thanks to Diane Chandler Stephanie Zia🕊 Blackbird Books Elise Dillsworth 😀🙏📚

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Just wrote about the UK's "Prevent" system, which is supposed to prevent terrorism but ends up affecting a lot of British Muslims, young people, and neurodivergent people who are completely innocent. Here's my post: andrewblackman.net/2024/06/preven…, with links to Amnesty UK's report

My review of John Banville's Eclipse for #JohnBanville2024: andrewblackman.net/2024/07/review… #amreading

Logged on to Twitter for the first time in months, and apart from the Esports World Cup, everything seems depressingly familiar.

Will be teaching a creative writing workshop next month for a new project being set up in #Guyana. Please share with any Caribbean writers or aspiring writers you know.

Woody Guthrie’s New Year's resolutions for 1943. “Wake up and fight.”

“I reiterate my call for independent investigations into the systematic disregard for the protection of humanitarian workers, premises and operations. This cannot become the new standard and impunity cannot become the new norm.” - Philippe Lazzarini

The first video in our series on Trump's second term is with Arun Kundnani, author of What is Antiracism? and The Muslims are Coming! Kundnani describes the failures of the Democrats and suggests that the rise of the far-right can be viewed as the War on Terror returning home.

i have a story out today at Necessary Fiction that happens to be about california wildfires (though i wrote it last year). a big thank you to Steve and the team at NF for taking on my story :) necessaryfiction.com/stories/over-i…

In a genocide, bad journalism costs lives.

Keir Starmer now sounds like Nigel Farage on immigration. When he stood for Labour leader, he celebrated immigration. The biggest political conman of our age.

My post in support of the #BooksellingIsNotACrime initiative by Saqi Books andrewblackman.net/2025/02/bookse…

The death toll continues to rise as the conflict in #DRCongo intensifies. IOM and partners are providing much needed support, such as food, shelter, and other forms of lifesaving assistance. Read IOM's operation here: iom.int/Zpw?utm_source…

Congrats to HopeRoad for having a book longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Always good to see smaller publishers getting the recognition they deserve thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

My review of Clear by Carys Davies for #ReadingWales'25: andrewblackman.net/2025/03/clear-… Granta Books

Reading Wales Month: Clear by Carys Davies : A church minister is sent to evict the last inhabitant of a remote island, but things don't go as planned. andrewblackman.net/2025/03/clear-… via Andrew Blackman #ReadingWales25