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okay, I’m crying #FreePalestine

.@PENAmerica announced today that they have cancelled this year’s World Voices Festival that was scheduled to be held May 8 - 11 in New York City and May 8 - 18 in Los Angeles.

The move came after dozens of authors withdrew from PEN America events in an unprecedented act of

🚨Calling UK writers, illustrators, and translators! Join the May 2 EGM vote we’re bringing to @thesocietyofauthors, on fossil fuels divestment and the genocide in Gaza! More in comments ⬇️ and in our bio - it’s time to act collectively to make our industry take a stance 🌏🍉

Calling all UK writers. (You can find out more, including how to join the Society of Authors and how to set up a proxy vote, via Fossil Free Books)

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters

“Can you call the philosophy department and tell them I’ve been arrested?” is an all-time quote.

The Refaat Alareer Memorial Library is now open at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at UCLA, Royce Quad.

The crowd swells for free Palestine in Princeton !

cornell police clearly unprepared for the mass & continuous support for the encampment finally announced around 9pm that there will be no arrests tonight, adding, however, that everyone in the quad including the majority who were outside the camp were “arrest-able.” 🇵🇸

So many reasons I feel strongly about this. But setting moral and political specifics aside and just focussing on the question of what issues are and are not within the remit of Society of Authors I am grateful for this clarification of the facts from yara rodrigues fowler and Sarah Bernstein:

We did it!🎉

Thanks to everyone who made Voices of Resilience such a special evening ❤️

We’re totalling everything up but it looks like over £3000 from tickets and book sales raised for 🇵🇸 aid charities in just one evening!

Amazing work everybody 👏

All of you who called this generation ‘snowflakes’: look, a blizzard’s forming. #FreePalestine

I am delighted to share with you our 29th - yes, really - ⁦Women's Prize⁩ fiction shortlist. Hurrah! Congratulations to the novelists and publishers, and heartfelt thanks to the 2024 judging panel

China Miéville, best-selling author & historian, has rescinded his acceptance of prestigious German residency, DAAD.

'I have watched with horror as the political atmosphere in Germany has grown more and more poisonous, the repression of solidarity with Palestinians more and more

I am a former deputy president of English PEN and take no pleasure in the implosion of PEN America. I think it’s now time for a change in leadership and a root and branch reform of the American organization so it can fulfill its mission lithub.com/the-pen-americ…

PEN America's silence on the genocide in Palestine caused so many authors to reject the organisation that its Literary Awards ceremony has been cancelled.

The largest prize, the Jean Stein award, will be given to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at the instruction of her

A lot of British plays have transferred to New York lately. The first one we've given a critic's pick to is 'Grenfell: Grenfell: In the words of survivors' nytimes.com/2024/04/22/the…

Such a brilliant, beautiful book