Dean Atta
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On 2nd May, our #shortlist celebration The London Library.
STELLAR readings from: Jason Allen-Paisant, benjamin dean Hiba Noor Khan Noreen Masud Ami Rao & Yepoka Yeebo & discussion featuring Jacqui Rose - JP Rose - a writer of sorts Anni Domingo Sunny Singh
Spaces are limited so book now
londonlibrary.co.uk/whats-on/240-c…
A huge thank you to an unsung book hero, Jill of The Waters Company who produces so many fantastic readings for BBC Radio 4. #YouAreHere is Book At Bedtime tonight, read by the brilliant Sally Phillips and Jim Howick. Listen from 10.45pm. haley blair bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
⭐️WIN a free book for your library, school or Early Years setting⭐️
To celebrate the launch of the #EmpathyDay 2024 resources, we're gifting an empathy-boosting book to the first 300 organisations who sign up!
Enter now at empathylab.uk/empathy-day
🎉 Don't forget, the European Writers' Festival is just around the corner!📚Join us at the British Library on 18-19.05 for 2 days of literary magic, featuring captivating discussions, powerful readings, and inspiring insights from leading authors across Europe. Dean Atta 🇨🇾/ rosie goldsmith
I have two poems in this gorgeous anthology, Joy//Us - Poems of Queer Joy from Arachne Press🕷️
If you're in London, celebrate with us at National Poetry Library on Wed 5 Jun, 8 pm.
I'll be reading alongside Joshua Jones | Local Fires OUT NOW Rick Dove 🕊💙 JP Seabright 💜 and many more!
southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/liter…
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🐅🌴🐆🌳🦌
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
TODAY! We launch #TheReview , an editorially independent bi-annual insert in The Bookseller, entirely produced by and featuring writers of the global majority. Brought to you by Jhalak Prize and writersmosaic.
A short🧵
“Children do not start wars,
and they cannot end them,
but they always pay the highest price.”
— Catherine Russell
unicef.org/press-releases…