3️⃣ Days to go!

There’s still time to send us your writing on the theme of ‘Home’ - don’t miss out on the chance to send in your final draft! ✍️

📆 FINAL DEADLINE: MONDAY 6TH MAY!

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Be sure to catch #jorizatto ‘s fabulous exhibition in our #overthesofagallery for May

We’re 56 signatures away from the first 3000 people speaking up!😮Will you be one of the first 3000 adding your name?📣💙🚀

We’re really concerned about what some Tory MPs are telling their constituents about NHS privatisation🚨

Add your name and pls RT: bit.ly/ltr2rishi

Traditionally #Beltane , an ancient celebration at the start of May, began when the Hawthorn, the May, blossomed and was associated with fertility. 'May Blossom' by painter Alice Robertson #WomensArt #May1st

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SuffolkCraftSociety at The Minories Gallery, #Colchester 2nd-12th May #MayDay #maymosaic #brokenchina

Just arrived into stock a new enamel badge to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) . Available instore or online.

The countdown begins! Mersea Island Artist Open Studio weekend is coming up soon on the bank holiday weekend at the end of this month. #mersea #visitmersea #colchester Visit Colchester
#CreativeColchester #ColchesterEvents #EssexEvents

We're excited to announce a wonderful collaboration with Essex Book Festival this year, as part of their Criminally Good Day in Harwich on Sat 29 June; Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? - the 25th novel from international bestselling author, Nicci French!

felixstowebookfestival.co.uk/events/nicci-f…

What does a book cost?

Back in 2015 we ran some calculations to figure out what a book costs, what it sells for, and where the money goes. We've done the sums again - for 2023 -and you head here for some grim, but hopefully also interesting, reading: galleybeggar.co.uk/what-does-a-bo…

'A Flat Place' - Noreen Masud #RSLOndaatjePrize 🏆 Penguin Books UK

‘Utterly unlike any other piece of nature writing I’ve ever come across, ‘A Flat Place’ unsettled me in the very best sense. The writing is painfully honest, hauntingly so and yet not without a lyricality which…

Launch your TV career with the Channel 4 Writing for TV Awards!

Enter an original pitch and sample script to win £3000, mentoring support, and a long-term placement with a production company.

Open to new writers based in the North of England.

D/L 4 Jun: newwritingnorth.com/northern-write…

From radical re-imaginings of our natural world, to page-turning fiction, via powerful poetry and the urgent case for our collective human rights.

Discover these new releases, and support independent bookshops with us. uk.bookshop.org/lists/new-book…

Alison Gates, Bayeux Tapestry inspired embroidery with a mock-Latin aphorism meaning 'Don't let the bastards grind you down', from Exquisite Uterus Project: The Art of Resistance, on women's reproductive rights #womensart .

Starting TOMORROW: our annual #JhalakShowcase that shines a light on the longlistees for Jhalak Prize and Jhalak C&YA Prize 2024.

Join us to learn more about our longlisted authors and their incredible books. We'll be giving away books daily too! #jhalakprize24

Our customers are numerous and varied.

Some have tails.

It's legal to claim asylum. People who have asked for help must not be treated this way.

This is an attack on everyone's rights. When universal human rights, like the right to seek safety, are undermined for anyone they're undermined for everyone.

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Former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, Dominic Dromgoole will be joining us at this year's festival to discuss his book Astonish Me! - an adrenaline-charged rollercoaster through historic first nights that changed the world.

Get your tickets!👉 felixstowebookfestival.co.uk/events/dominic…

This is our bookshop, Westwood Books in Sedbergh, Cumbria. It’s a large building, on a main road at the edge of town, that has been a bookshop now for 18 years.

But we need your help. Even though the shop has been here for so long, we still get comments like…

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TODAY! We launch #TheReview , an editorially independent bi-annual insert in The Bookseller, entirely produced by and featuring writers of the global majority. Brought to you by Jhalak Prize and writersmosaic.
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