Photo of a orange and black ceramic vessel with round base and trumpet like opening, all against a grey background

Kenyan born artist Magdalene Odundo, considered one of the premier ceramicists working today #womensart

Wooded hillside covered in bluebells

Spring in The Malvern Hills.

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FlashFlood is open! We’d love to receive your subs 😊 Flashes up to 300 words, pre 2023 prev published considered, reserved spots for debut writers. You have until 23:59 on 25 April: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

Painting of a cityscape at night in a scene filled with houses and other buildings in blue light and with gold light coming from windows

'Bristol Night II' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #WomensArt

Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

Use this tool to find out if your local health services use Palantir software, and register your objection.

It takes 30 seconds.

Well done @goodlawproject.org

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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Submission Guidelines We publish short stories, including translations, of up to 2,500 words that have not previously appeared elsewhere, either in print or online (including your own blog and social media). We offer th…

ICYMI we're open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We look fwd to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

10.25 AM. UK National Grid is currently whacking out 65.8% output by wind alone, solar another 23.3%. We are generating 114% of our demand & exporting 10% (4.7GW) to Europe & also replenish our pumped storage supply - using 4%. Fossil fuel is only generating 7.9% of output.

#renewables #windpower

"I Will Not Comply": Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System's Board Rutherford County Library System's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info.

“I Will Not Comply”: Librarian Luann James Fights Censorship Demands of Rutherford County Library System’s Board

RCLS's director continues to fight back against a library board that demands she remove books, share private info.

This is the job, folks!

bookriot.com/librarian-lu...

Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c... Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money.

So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK?

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

There are 7 slots for workshops on Sat and Sun at the festival with a choice of four or five in each. Here are two of them. The fab @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social & Alison Powell
We’ll be sharing more workshops soon & thanks to festival team member @sarahillswrites.bsky.social for creating the pic

Thanks! I'm currently reading Apeirogon which is blowing me away! First thing I've read by McCann...

I would love Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, and Solar Bones by Mike McCormack please!

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

This is utterly jaw-dropping.

A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils.

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

Fictive Dream is open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We look fwd to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

I've signed. Will you? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Yes! It's brilliant!

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

a shelf of books in a-z order

a shelf of books in a-z order

a shelf of books in a-z order

MY BIG CLEAR OUT!

Here are 3 shelves of my books in A-Z order by author.

You can have any 2 for £10 (free P+P).

Please share (and buy).

UK only.

Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

PEN Translates winners announced - News & Events - English PEN

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Winners of Weatherglass Novella Prize 2.0, with Ali Smith And announcement of dates for Novella Prize 3.0

So, this!
I am, of course, delighted but also slightly speechless 😊

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Totally brilliant news, Jupiter!!! Huge congrats 🎉🎉🎉

and we're open! we're looking for standalone novellas, 17.5K - 40K words, on the theme of environmental justice. check out our full guidelines here: reckoning.press/submit/novel...

The Village The village with all of the flash writers

Are you in need of a village? We are The Village with All of The Flash Writers. And here's the invitation link:
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We are open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction #submissionsopen #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We're looking fwd to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...