We’re delighted to welcome four new trustees - Vickie, Sharifa, Esmie, and Tom - to the Exeter #CityOfLiterature Board, adding a wealth of expertise and enthusiasm to our organisation.

Get to know them in this incoming thread ⬇️

Esmie 💫🪐 the woman that you are for this!!! Braiding hair has never sounded so beautiful 🥺🥺

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Where Sleeping Girls Lie has been out for one month! Thank you to everyone who has supported this book 🤍

One of the highlights of this month was Jimmy Fallon reading and gasping at my book - so real of him

THREAD OF DONATION LINKS FOR PALESTINE / PALESTINIANS

#Strike4Gaza #StrikeForPalestine

the principle of moments coded!!!

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Oooh something different

I just signed the 'Save the MA in Black British Writing at Goldsmiths College' petition. Sign here: chng.it/pGyCpPn8

realised I havent been on Twitter in ages!!! I fell off posting when my book came out because it all felt like a bit much. But I feel like I should do a roll call for people who actually ended up reading TPOM I’d love to know everyone’s thoughts 👀🤭

If anyone has been craving epic fantasy but in space, with terrifying prophecies, intrepid heroes, alien libraries, found family, and of course academic analysis of the ancient lore of dead planets, then you really should check this book out 👀👀

African Ghost Short Stories is available to buy TODAY in the UK ✨🥳 A deluxe edition of new African writing and tales rooted in ancient culture, it’s one not to miss 👉🏼flametreepublishing.com/african-ghost-…

📢 Apply now: Windrush Amplified Art Grant. £3k to be awarded to a photographer, artist, poet, writer, artist collective, school or community group to deliver print-based work responding to the theme; ‘Windrush: Past. Present. Future’. Deadline 1/4 lovehackney.uk/windrush-ampli…

it's insane how authors have published books, have awards, good trade reviews, foreign rights sold, and more and ... are living paycheck to paycheck and/or are on the verge of homelessness. or uninsured. or simply existing is too expensive all the while on deadline.

did someone say fantasy books by filipino authors 👀

✨TGLA is open for submissions!✨
Each month between the 1st – 21st we are open to submissions from all writers who are under-represented in mainstream publishing. To check eligibility & to submit, click here: thegoodliteraryagency.org/submissions/

The event on 3rd May features the mighty CatherineJohnson MichaelSalu & Debo Amon exploring the tremendous possibilities of black voices in the arts & beyond. rsliterature.org/whats-on/manif…

This book is pure joy and Rogba Payne is a huge new talent. I have a few extra copies on my desk for booksellers/bloggers/reviewers so if anyone loves Marlon James, Nnedi Okorafor, Jabercrombie, Patrick Rothfuss, all the EPICNESS, please do drop me a line!

I’m a huge fan of Andrea’s writing, so to read this from someone whose work I admire and enjoy so much means the world to me!🥹

(Legit spent 30 mins attempting to adequately put my feelings into this tweet!)