Excited to be heading off to Trinidad and Tobago soon for the wonderful Bocas Lit Fest I'll be discussing my books & Black to the Future with Brandon O'Brien Brandon O'Brien #bocas2024

Make sure to sign up for B!TEZ🫀’s drop in session focusing on meaning making in the age of Artificial Intelligence.

Princess will provide interactive prompts and exercises for participants to inform her work for the Poets of Colour Incubator

Tickets: tinyurl.com/55wbys7r

Spread the Word: I'm co-hosting 4 virtual #CreativeStartUpSessions Words of Colour from 22nd April, to help #creatives , #artists , #entrepreneurs + communities of colour navigate the world of #finance and creative #enterprise . bit.ly/CreativeStartU…

Anthony Williams, victim of the Windrush scandal, has died months after quitting the UK for a 'fresh start' in Jamaica, his friends have confirmed. gofundme.com/f/bm3vvs-antho…

A great looking festival in Leeds tomorrow (Saturday April 2024). Check it out. Leeds Playhouse

Getting ready to go to Bristol!! See you all at Lyra Festival!! Bristol Poetry Festival Raise the Bar Bristol Beacon Nikita Gill Cecilia Knapp #Bristol #Poetry

So deserved Sunny... x

📣 UK-based Black journalists/writers - I’m looking to commission some interviews for The Bookseller’s 2024 black issue. Deets are in this article (just imagine it says “2024” where you read “2023”): thebookseller.com/news/submissio…

Honestly, while I truly appreciate everyone who’s reached out to me privately these last few days to express support and agreement…I wish more of you would actually speak up publicly in the face of this BS. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Great news Irenosen Okojie!!!

MARYSE CONDÉ changed literature across many landscapes imaginative, geographical and intellectual. A towering figure of history - lived and literary. Words of Colour The Afro-Caribbean Book Club Bernardine Evaristo Kadija George Goldsmiths, University of London Kwame Dawes Kwame Kwei-Armah

Open call for new poetry commissions from the North West or Yorkshire region for creative responses to John Lyon’s paintings and poetry the Whitworth
By 21 April
tinyurl.com/5n6cet77
Image: John Lyons, Before Ash Wednesday in Trinidad, detail, 1988 Photo: Anne-Katrin Purkiss

ICYMI: Deepa Anappara and I are organising a #conference to bring academics, publishers and writers together to discuss #decolonisation and inclusivity in creative writing pedagogy and publishing.

Submit your abstract by 12/4.
More info: publishingadventures.our.dmu.ac.uk/conference/ #CallForPapers

I really need people to invest in adequate PR representation, communication and media training before undertaking any public facing activities.

You cannot alienate key segments of your audience because you insist on allowing your ego to be your representative.

Thanks Museum of Colour. We are doing this ourselves - can't wait for everyone to wake up... x