Black writers, need to pay for your MFA application? Or a contest fee to your favorite sci-fi journal? I got you covered in 2023. Takes ten seconds to send a request via vincentanioke.com/fin-support-bl…. Several opportunities already sponsored in the last two days. Room for more.

📢Applications for our Emerging Writers Programme open 1 week from today! Successful applicants will receive a year’s free membership to The London Library, peer support, and more. Learn more: londonlibrary.co.uk/about-us/ll-em…

Loved seeing the Hodor guy getting his pirate on. #OurFlagMeansDeath #OurFlagBBC

They may not all be your “personal picks,” but one thing I *do* love about this year’s acting winners quartet at the #Oscars is how they’re all actors who have been counted out - or shut out - at various points in their careers and came back against the odds to come out on top.

Are you a Black woman aged 40-70 years old? We want to hear about your views on #menopause. If you have 15 mins, please can you complete our totally anonymous online survey. Please share with your friends. Approval from UCL Ethics Committee ref: 9831/005 ifwh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a5…

Tyrique and Lochlan revving up their fighters for this one on one #LoveIsland

I took 1 star reviews of #Barbie from furious men on letterboxd and put them on the posters because it makes the film seem ever cooler.

Poetry people, I'm setting up a list for all things poetry. So I don't miss anyone can you please like and share this, and I'll add you if not already added, thank you.

Thomas looks like a posh Ezra Miller #MAFSUK

Stormzy has teamed up with Adidas to provide career opportunities for young black people aged 18-24 who wish to make in roads in the football industry(off the pitch). Let’s rise guys🫶🏾 Retweet and share with your networks 👨‍💻 (link below)

Loving Charlene's outfit tonight - gorgeous style #MAFSUK

Yes Poets I’ve put the On Poetry book back on sale at £6.00 till Christmas Day to support all the intermediate poets to finish projects this year. It’s filled with tips, tricks, prompts and cheat codes for the intermediate poet, a workshop in a book. rogerrobinson6.gumroad.com #poet

Human beings are designed for story. Our biology is attuned to its rhythms & pattern, from infancy. Human brains process “story” differently than “evidence”. That helps to explain why the ITV *story* of the #PostOffceScandal has had such an impact. And so yes, we need more #arts.

#MAFSAU "Lying is her second language"! Classic line from Cassandra

Please consider signing this petition, folks. Help to save the only MA in Black British Literature in the world ... Thank you. chng.it/vSXzPdrQ via Change.org South Africa

The creepy music for Jack and Tori's vows was oddly fitting instead of the usual swooping romantic soundtrack. Proper toxic vibes #MAFSAU

It worries me that people are using ChatGPT to write emails and essays. Hard to think of anything more dangerous than letting our creative and mental powers, the things that make us human, atrophy from disuse. When you create anything, what you’re really creating is yourself.

We asked this year’s judges, who have read over 150 books submitted for the prize, to share their tips for fitting more fiction into a busy schedule. Here's what they said... thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

Some are angry about the "anti-Christian depiction of the last supper" at the Olympic Opening ceremony. (Elon Musk and Donald J. Trump among others) A Dutch art historian explains it's not the last supper but a Dutch painting of the Olympic gods. And I explain what I loved. 🧵

Gutted that I managed to misplace the best umbrella I've ever had, which was only £4 from Aldi Stores UK. Wondering if somehow they might have a spare one at the back of a warehouse somewhere aldi.co.uk/red-avenue-aut…