Incredible new essay by ARUNDHATI ROY, online now. How fake history and fake news fuel fascism -- and how fiction can fight back:

"Grief, like an apple tree, grows crooked not straight." In 2003 my friend Roger Deakin travelled to Kazakhstan in search of its wild ur-apple trees. Emergence Magazine here publish his account of that journey, and my story of the tree that grew from it.emergencemagazine.org/story/east-to-…

📢Opportunity: St. John's College, Cambridge, have opened applications for the Harper-Wood Creative Writing & Travel Award for English Poetry & Literature. For unpublished writers in early career stages. D/L 6 May. sjcamrf.flexigrant.com