I'm hosting a beginners poetry workshop called 'Self-Love Sonnets 101' at The Chestnut Tree bookshop in Footscray, Melbourne! As seen as Nike Well Festival London✌️🏾 Let's learn the rules, then queer them: eventbrite.co.uk/e/common-birds… #WhatsOnMelbourne

Meet our two newest team members! Wasafiri is delighted to introduce our new Deputy Editor Dr Durre Shahwar and our new Digital Co-Ordinator lalah-simone springer. Learn more about them both: buff.ly/3VNccaU

Who's writing speculative fiction? lalah-simone springer though here, we have Lalah Simone Springer reading from An Aviary of Common Birds, published by Broken Sleep Books: youtube.com/watch?v=rShBFK… Broken Sleep Books currently open for submissions - full-length poetry collections 40+ pages.

Tonight! I'll be joining NewhamPoetryGrp for a FREE event where I’ll be discussing how this working class Black queer ended up writing a poetry collection, and what the process of publication with Broken Sleep Books was like. To register email [email protected]

Check out a review of my debut poetry collection 'An Aviary of Common Birds' in the latest issue of The Alchemy Spoon 🎉 Get your copy of Issue 12: Silence here: alchemyspoon.org

Two more events left on my UK tour! Excited to announce I'll be performing at The Queery Brighton with support from my amazing special guests Naomi Wood & Carlos Mauricio Rojas. See you there ♥️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/common-birds… #Brighton #QueerPoetry #BrightonEvents

Today we have Special guest poet Lalah-Simone Springer - session is open to registered members only - To register please email newhampoetrygroup@gmail #PoetryForAll #PoetryFest #NewhamPoetryFest is possible Thanks to Arts Council England, London #Newhampoets #newhamculture

🚨 Internship Alert! 🚨 We're excited to announce that opportunity is available for two CHASE DTP -funded PhD students to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement. Deadline: Midnight, 16 June 2024 Learn more, and apply here: buff.ly/4bEOymh

Support Broken Sleep Books: Buy just one book today. Your single book purchase can secure our future. brokensleepbooks.com/books

I’ve just bought An Aviary of Common Birds by lalah-simone springer and Lives of British Shrews by Steve Ely - a good reason to spend a bit of money on good books 📚 🐧

If you can, please help Broken Sleep Books this weekend and buy a book. I thoroughly recommend 'All Empty Vessels'. Also, lalah-simone springer Stu Watson Fee Griffin Liam Bates 🚪 and Geoff Hattersley to name a few brokensleepbooks.com/shop-1?page=3

I bought An Aviary of Common Birds by lalah-simone springer last Saturday, and this Saturday I will pre-order Rein it In by Héloïse de Satgé - Broken Sleep has amazing authors, definitely take this opportunity to support them so they can continue to publish!

I'm performing with Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir for a (belated) Pride performance on 7 July 2024. We've rearranged tracks from my electronic spoken word/music project Cyclical Music for live band & gospel choir Shaping up to be a beautiful time! See you there? eventbrite.co.uk/e/soul-at-sain…

COMPETITION: We're running a competition for full-length poetry collections, judged by penelope shuttle & Andre Bagoo, open to entrants worldwide. Enter, and find out more, here: brokensleepbooks.com/broken-sleep-b…

Calling all poets! 🖊️ We are running a competition! Whether your style is raw, lyrical, or experimental, we want to read your work. Don't miss the opportunity—find out more and enter today here: brokensleepbooks.com/broken-sleep-b… #PoetryComp #CallForSubmissions #PoetryCommunity #AmWriting

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Kicking off THE TRASHIES next week with a few poems! I'll be warming the crowd up for Joshua Idehen before we hand over to Samantha Asumadu to host the awards ceremony Let's gooooo: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-trashies…