This is WILD. The idea that ACE funding, which most arts orgs need to survive, might be taken away because of individuals speaking out about Palestine is horrifying.

Is it even a ‘political’ statement to call out genocide, in Palestine or anywhere else? It shouldn’t be!

On Wednesday 14th Feb, fifteen UK independent bookshops will hold events to raise money for the PEN Emergency Fund to provide support ringfenced for writers at risk who are in and from Palestine.

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'some news', as the kids say

CARRION CROW will be landing via Doubleday Books in Feb 2025, with an unhinged short story collection to follow in 2026

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Please share if you have links anywhere near Marlow or Hockley - Marc has been missing for four days.

The Biden administration has sent 244 cargo planes and 20 ships carrying 10,000 tonnes of military hardware to Israel during its genocidal war on Gaza.

Genocide in Gaza, made in the USA.

4. I haven’t read much non-fiction this year but Strangers by Rebecca Tamás was the most revolutionary collection of writing I’ve read this year and a school of thought and heart I’m subscribing to 🧵

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If they don't kill them with bombs, it is snipers; if not that, it is thirst; if not that, it is hunger; if not that, it is the diseases that spread in these conditions.

This is the calculated construction of an uninhabitable Israeli death camp in Gaza.

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Palestinians are being killed in their thousands. Those who have survived the bombs face death by disease and starvation.

It is incomprehensible that we are still debating whether more human beings should die.

This cannot go on any longer. We need a permanent ceasefire, now.

This is pathetic. Part of an institution’s job is to vet who they allow to hire their spaces.

You’re telling me that a fundraiser for Israel, attended by the president of Israel while Israel slaughters thousands of Palestinians was a communications error? Have a day off.

The final Creative Digest of 2023, the literary substack from our Creative Writing team City Writing, is out now!

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Stop the attacks on Gaza!

Free Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Among the people to be killed recently in Gaza are writer Refaat Alareer and his family. And yet, despite this loss and the thousands of others in Palestine, publishing in the UK still thinks it doesn't need to speak up, that its role is not to make political comments.

This has to stop THIS HAS TO STOP

Don’t be distracted by celebrity noise or cynical propaganda campaigns or mealy midwits telling u ur naive or performative for shouting against these horrors

March again tmrw for a FREE PALESTINE

'How many more children have to die?'

Israel lobby-funded leader of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer, is confronted over his position on Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.