WOW, this amazing! I love Booktime Magazine Thank you so much!

What an amazing start to publication day 🎉🎉🎉 it was such a pleasure to talk to the wonderful Chloe Timms on what has become the most beautiful rite of passage for a debut author!!

Beyond thrilled that His Majesty's Gold Award for poetry excellence has been awarded to Mimi Khalvati. In addition to an extraordinary body of writing, I cannot think of anyone who has done more to nurture and shape British poetry, especially poets of colour.

Looking forward to reading this! Congratulations Dzifa Afi Benson Beautiful cover too!

Fabulous news for the Fab Vanessa Kisuule

This book.

Two women are murdered by their partners or former partners every week. A heartbreaking and beautiful poem by Jenny Mitchell in our first edition. Read it here: blackirispoetry.com/a-woman-made-o… #poetrytwitter

📅 From our Events calendar: Get Your Novel Noticed with @kimsquirrell.bluesky.social, @IsabelAshdown and Helen Corner-Bryant (Cornerstones Literary Consultancy) 📅 Weds 20th March 🕢 7.30pm 📍LSI, East Street, Bridport literatureworks.org.uk/event/get-your…

See you there?

FAB!

Listen now to this Radio 4 documentary where Jason Allen-Paisant goes to Dublin in search of the work and life of Jamaican poet Ferdinand Levy, who published his only collection while living in Ireland in 1941: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

The Bridport Prize LSI Bridport Cornerstones Literary Consultancy @IsabelAshdown @kimsquirrell.bluesky.social Bridport Arts Centre Superb event. A very generous and knowledgeable panel. No bullshit, loved it!

David Lloyd 🌈 🇺🇦 Exeter Phoenix @markblackburn Orlando Murrin Elizabeth Delo @kimsquirrell.bluesky.social Abby Marie Crawford Ticket link here wegottickets.com/event/618737/

As #WorldSwiftDay comes to end, we wanted to share the artwork @kimsquirrell.bluesky.social has been working up for #BridportSwiftTown, a new community campaign to celebrate & help protect these awe inspiring birds.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! We are thrilled to announce the ten awardees for the Irish Writers Centre Evolution Programme 2024-2025! Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Arts Council of Northern Ireland Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway Marian Keyes Read more🔗irishwriterscentre.ie/10-writers-sel…

It was an intense process - my whole life squeezed into 45 mins! Be curious to hear what you think! Thanks to the fab Lou Lockwood and the whole crew! 👏🏿👏🏿

FOREST OF NOISE by Mosab Abu Toha is a deeply powerful collection of poems about life in Gaza. Uncannily clear, direct and beautifully tuned, they form one of the most astonishing works of art wrested from wartime. Publishing 7 November

Check out Blue Has No Borders: A documentary about crossing the divide by Charlie Phillips on Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/charl…