Closing soon! Submissions for Issue Eight of TOLKA close on Sunday 5 May at midnight. You can submit here: tolkajournal.org/submit

TOLKA in Yorkshire! If you're in or around Leeds this June, pop by to see us with Kimberly Campanello, Clare Fisher and Angelica Krikler, as they read from and discuss their wonderful TOLKA pieces. 6.30pm, 18 June. seetickets.com/event/tolka-jo…

Submissions still open- more info at twistedinks.wordpress.com

Gratitude for a wonderful Writing the Now event last night with 4 provocative interventions from lola olufemi Sita Balani Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan and Jemma Desai on the Conjuncture LAHRI

Tolka journal, presents an event on new forms of non-fiction on 18.06. Clare Fisher, Angelica Krikler and Kimberly Campanello interrogate how bodies shift, change, and deceive selves and others.

🎟️- seetickets.com/event/tolka-jo…

Better get yours to the poet K, plus Fisher and Krikler with Tolka leedslitfest.co.uk/whats-on/all-s…
Hyde Park Book Club Clare Fisher

📢All welcome to join us for the symposium on 'Racial Capitalism and Cultural Resistance' on 1st May, to be concluded by keynote address from Dr Dhanveer Singh Brar. No registration required. More information on quiltingpoints.blogspot.co.uk. University of Leeds School of English - University of Leeds FAHACS

Students, staff, alumni and affiliates The University of Sheffield there’s one week left to submit to The Sheffield Review (formerly Route 57) issue ‘Obsession & Perception’. Open for fiction, poetry/hybrid, creative non-fiction, visual and performance pieces.

thesheffieldreview.wordpress.com/the-sheffield-…

also coming up soon soon
The LAHRI Sadler Writing the Now collective is joined by 4 fantastic UK writers - Jemma Desai; Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan; Lola Olufemi and Sita Balani on our theme of 'Conjuncture' 29 April ticketsource.co.uk/university-of-…

No piano. Ony poet. Now with bigger venue! Join me for my inaugural Professorial lecture-performance 'Words Change States: The Public Poet'...max 220 so book and get your seat! tinyurl.com/54p24fty University of Leeds School of English - University of Leeds Arts, Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds University of Leeds Poetry Centre

Edinburgh friends
I'll be talking female rage,
medieval women
and other juicy things
at Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop
Join us. June 19th.

Canongate

Do come along on 31 May to hear from keynote speaker Clare Fisher and presentations including Ella Ruby Self Leonie Martin Llew Watkins. Very privileged to be in such awesome company, huge thanks to Heather Beier and team for accepting my work. Free to attend, details below.

👔NEW CLUSTER // OUT NOW 👔

🪩READING DISCO ELYSIUM🪩

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eds. Jess Anderson and Carl White

feat.
Sadek Kessous
Hayley G. Toth
Joe Worthen
Dylan Davidson
saad (the band) is unraveling
Mark Steven
Emily Price

students are sadder and sadder, more and more anxious, in significant part because they are being given shiny buildings instead of what they need: time and attention from non-burnt-out older human adults

Niki Chang & I are looking for a new assistant. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2024. We look forward to hearing from you—particularly about a specific book that has provoked a strong reaction in you—details here:

davidhigham.co.uk/opportunities/

‘Book workers…gathered in the rain outside the London Book Fair…to mourn and remember the 187 Palestinian writers, poets, journalists, and scholars killed by Israeli forces since October 7, and to demand a permanent ceasefire’

Book Workers for a Free Palestine #LBF2024
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Happening on Thursday - not-to-be-missed readings from Pamenar Press Centre for Poetry & Poetics. Free to attend - details below

Aside from this being completely unnecessary, it’s also going to be basically impossible? How on earth are they expecting small independent restaurants etc to accurately work out the calories in everything they make? It’s just going to be meaningless numbers.

oh how this so perfectly captures the feeling of being alive right now