Please RT 😊. Author & educator Leone Ross has curated two ONLINE classes in Feb & April, open to writers all over the world. The Gentle Apprenticeship is for new writers or ones who haven’t written for a while. The Push You Need Masterclass is for more experienced writers.

I’ve seen a tweet saying Jägerbombs are as bad as cocaine and I’m just sparing a thought for freshers week

When an elder dies, a library burns to the ground.

Benjamin Zephaniah freed many minds with his pen. He has now ascended to join our ancestors, leaving behind a legacy that will travel longer than each of us have on this earth.

Thank you for all that you gave, rest in power 🕊️

We’re launching the book at the Southbank Centre on the 26th of Jan 💫

I’m proper excited, it feels like an early birthday. Come through if you’re free 🙏🏿
southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/liter…

Sonder (neologism) — a word coined John Koenig to describe the profound feeling of realising that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one’s own.

Nairobi, Kenya • © Ioana Lungu

Might go and see #FemmeFilm , trailer has swayed me, some Brit grit, queer stories and Nathan Stewart Jarrett

I am putting together a list of 2024 Read Caribbean releases! If you are an author from the Caribbean or of Caribbean heritage, comment and let me know if you're releasing a book in 2024!

Read Caribbean 2024 loading 👏🏽

And so we happily stock any
Annie Ernaux in existence 📖
Thanks for image
Paperback Social ❤️ 📚

I had a list in notes app of books I wanted to read this year- mostly backlist and old books I’ve been meaning to read forever.

I might recycle that list for 2024 because I’ve only read about 4 of them 🫠 but want to read them all!

Barely reading these days but the audiobooks are helping. Last one was Huma Qureshi’s Playing Games.

I found it endearing, I’m a fan of stories about sisters and also find differing impacts of shared grief interesting. One of The Candid Book Club recs! This is on Spotify btw

The way I quickly put on my earphones to see what they’ve done to our theme song

On 4th Dec, SWRLS #WordLiveinLibraries Tour presents author Tolu Agbelusi with two 'pay what you can' events at Exeter Library:

📝 1pm-2pm: Interrogating Your Why - Creative Writing Workshop
🗨️ 5.30pm-6.30pm: In Conversation

🎫 bit.ly/WLILExeter

This is perfect

🩸UK COVER REVEAL 🩸

Here I present to you the STUNNING UK cover for my second book, Where Sleeping Girls Lie!!

Pre-order: linktr.ee/faridahlikestea

Art by - Aykut Aydogdu

When I go silent for long, it either means that I got no internet connection, that my battery died, or that I died.

My full name is: Bayan Abusultan
And I live in western #Gaza City.

If you google me and find out I was killed, please take care of my books.

Really honoured to be participating in this amazing project😍
#BlackBritishMusic #BlackCulture #MusicBusiness
Immersive survey of Black British music to open V&A East museum in 2025 theguardian.com/music/2023/nov…