Reminder that Adi's special issue, PALESTINIAN PERSPECTIVES is live below, with work by Fady Joudah, Fadia Jawdat, Bader Alzaharna, Mikhail De Palraine, Farah Alhaddad, and Lisa Suhair Majaj.

More pieces will be added each week.

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my writer mentor said that we should consider the possibility of writing for our most generous readers, our most attentive & thorough readers

& I’ve loved that advice

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FREELANCERS PUT YOUR RATES UP TODAY. It is a new tax year! Consider inflation, your experience, your business costs! No one is going to pay you more out of the goodness of their hearts!

These are the MINIMUM recommended rates for editing work by CIEP.

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You can read my editorial, ‘The Sound of Freedom’, here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How wonderful to be shortlisted in this year’s FutureWorldsPrize - huge thank you to the judges & readers! - mostly excited by how amazing all the shortlisted works sound?!?! What awesome company to be in - can’t wait to read the excerpts! Congrats all 🎉

i wrote something about writing, “craft”, and what i think palestine requires of those who write in english from the imperial core in this hour of genocide. i hope that it might be useful

Gather in any way you can, with any of your folks, even if it's just one person, even if it's just taking time to reflect & ground & recommit on your own.

Consider what you can do, what matters to you.

Find ways to get in the way of genocide(s).

Renew your refusals. 🪨🌱

Khōréō is publishing some of the most interesting short fiction right now as well as providing a platform to many new authors from all over the world. The work they do is necessary for our community, please help them to continue by pledging to their kickstarter.

We cannot recommend this enough! Isha is a master of the short story form.

Her story 'An Account of the [War Heroines] of the First Independence War [by An Unnamed Soldier]' was runner-up for our 2021 Short Fiction Prize.

desperateliterature.com/prize

Capitalism loves disposability. Disposable income. Disposable goods. Disposable people. Disposable colonies.

If you are feeling sad and hopeless that is completely understandable, but it's also a luxury we can't afford right now. Here's a list of some great organisations helping on the ground, just as a handy guide:

If you're writing short stories and want to learn more, I absolutely recommend this course with powerhouse writer Isha which I attended last year! Met some lovely writers and the reading list was 🔥🔥

Places are going fast for Isha's short story course! SIGN UP while you can!

A public human rights crisis right before our eyes.