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🎶📚 FREE EVENT @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 🎶📚

Join me & @elliechan.bsky.social for 'Music, life-writing & how to write about what you can’t hear.'

📅 15 Oct | 🕔 5–6pm | 📍 Goldsmiths (Richard Hoggart Building)


More info 👉 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

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Very excited to share my book Catastrophe Foretold will be published by @vikingbooks.bsky.social (UK) and Union Square (US)!! My book traces warnings before ten major disasters of the past century, and why so many went unheeded. Huge thanks to @mmagency.bsky.social & amazing @agentbal.bsky.social

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Thanks to everyone who joined our sold-out book launch at The Frontline Club! Ex-BBC @jmacrodgers.bsky.social Ex-CNN @arwadamon.bsky.social & so many others who joined us to discuss the new censorship, rising authoritarianism & the horrors in Gaza. It was an intensive, inspiring urgent conversation

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My first ever unboxing… @wearefootnote.bsky.social @bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social @agentbal.bsky.social

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The New Censorship As we find ourselves in a time of democratic decay all over the world, with relentless attempts to undermine truth and facts and unprecedented technological tools to spread disinformation and incit…

My upcoming trade book, based on the dissertation (and much more), will be out next month & is available to pre-order here: footnotepress.com/books/the-ne... @agentbal.bsky.social @bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social

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Huge congrats, Hope!!! 🤩

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Really enjoyed doing this interview with Sian for her brilliant Substack!

11 months ago 5 1 1 1
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My paperback out 1 May. Heartfelt & compassionate walks through rural Britain and its hidden history of empire.

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A middle aged woman with glasses and shoulder length hair with a fringe reads from the festival programme. She is wearing an anorak. A younger woman with long braids has her arm round her, looking at the programme. She is wearing a white crop top and a black jacket. In a pink block at the bottom reads “Can’t make the festival in person? There are lots of ways you can join in at home. Find out more at DeptfordLitFest.com”

A middle aged woman with glasses and shoulder length hair with a fringe reads from the festival programme. She is wearing an anorak. A younger woman with long braids has her arm round her, looking at the programme. She is wearing a white crop top and a black jacket. In a pink block at the bottom reads “Can’t make the festival in person? There are lots of ways you can join in at home. Find out more at DeptfordLitFest.com”

Can't make #DeptfordLitFest in person? There are lots of ways you can take part from home – from online writing prompts and exercises you can do in your own time, to reading new work by Festival writers and watching our events streamed online. Find out more - www.spreadtheword.org.uk/deptford-lit...

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At @orionbooks.bsky.social we're launching the Mo Siewcharran non-fiction prize for unpublished global majority writers who are writing about history, ancestry and culture 📚

An incredible opportunity to win funding or a publishing deal, please submit your work to us!

1 year ago 4 4 1 0
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Deptford Literature Festival unveils 2025 programme BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine

Thank you @bookbrunch.bsky.social for your article on #DeptfordLitFest

www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...

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Really excited to be doing a panel event at the Deptford Lit Fest this year!

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Mukahang Limbu wins Borough Press' £10k non fiction prize Mukahang Limbu has won The Borough Press' non-fiction open submission competition, worth £10,000, with his memoir, Egg-Fried Rice.

Mukahang Limbu has won The Borough Press’ non-fiction open submission competition, worth £10,000, with his memoir, Egg-Fried Rice 👇 www.thebookseller.com/news/mukahan... #BookSky

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In publishing we are still not equal.

Did you know, last year, that only 8% of the top 50 business books in the UK were written by women? It's clear that we are still not presenting female authors as the experts, thought leaders and changemakers they are.
The result?

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