I found this rather challenging to write but it really helped me think through what agents and publishers want and need from a non-fiction proposal so I was very grateful for the commission Writers & Artists 🙏

Nell Stevens has moved to Scribner UK in a two-book deal, which included a new novel, The Original, and a collection of stories, The Good Time. 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/nell-st…

Delighted to welcome the brilliant Nell Stevens to the list! Coming 2025, The Original is a daring, complex queer play on history, identity, and the 19th-century inheritance novel -- we can't wait for you to read it. Rebecca Carter Simon & Schuster UK thebookseller.com/rights/nell-st…

Interesting to watch writers I grew up reading undergo the predictable drift to the right as they age, while apparently unaware their politics have changed. They still believe they are somehow of the left while lambasting young activists on behalf of global investment managers

Next month we publish the dazzling new story collection from Giant Rat of Sumatra It’s a remarkable feat of dexterous word play, experiments in form, of great heart and compassion—it also has a story about walruses Which led to this eBay haul of vintage 🦭 badges 4th Estate Books

This is my family. This is my family’s house.

This is the old-Jerusalem family home of a wonderful friend and a wonderful writer. It is now illegally occupied. This just goes on and unbearably on, and those who could stop it do nothing

The picture emerging from Goldsmiths is even bleaker than feared. They are absolutely decimating departments, livelihoods, scholarship. Donate here if you can: goldsmithsucu.org/support-fund/

First published in 2017, where one of the stories is so flummoxed by the idea of then-styled UKIP that it talks about candidates’ rosette colours in terms of vomited Berocca. Thank you Influx Press for a home & 4th Estate Books for new livery, re-published and bristling tomorrow

Goldsmiths has decided to terminate my employment as part of a devastating restructure. With no specialist staff, this means the closure of the MA Queer History, the world's only MA degree of its kind. This is an afront to my students, colleagues, and community. It is vandalism.

Let's lead with the good news and bury the bad – tonight, I will be in conversation with the glorious Eley Williams at Daunt Marylebone at 7pm. (Bad news: Monica Heisey has covid 😢). Thanks for stepping in Giant Rat of Sumatra. Tickets for Daunt Books here: dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/re…

Recycled homophobia from a Labour MP Lots of children have LGBT+ family. Understanding and acknowledging their existence is good

Happiest of publication days to the great Giant Rat of Sumatra and her dazzling, hilarious and heartfelt new collection MODERATE TO POOR! 4th Estate Books

A new book from Eley, and we are all allowed to have it forever 🪶

Eley Williams, author of the brilliant, prizewinning short story collection ATTRIB. AND OTHER STORIES, will be at the shop on 6 Aug to discuss her new collection MODERATE TO POOR, OCCASIONALLY GOOD with So Mayer Book your tickets now: lrb.me/kn3

It was a delight to spend time with Big Sharpie™️ at London Review Bookshop yesterday, desecrating some pages in a convivial way — really looking forward to a conversation with So Mayer about it next week. SEE YOU THERE AND WE CAN FINALLY AIR OUR GRIEVANCES FACE-TO-FACE?

TONIGHT! Still time to grab your tickets for Eley Williams & So Mayer - at the Bookshop, 7pm tonight - book here: lrb.me/kn3