I love INTERVALS by Marianne Brooker Fitzcarraldo Editions and I can't wait to be in conversation with her Southbank Centre in October for 'Maternal Lines'. Tickets here: southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/liter…

Doing a book talk in Edinburgh Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop as part of the Book Fringe on Tues 13 August at 1pm lighthousebookshop.com/events/beyond-…

This month, book lovers in Scotland can pay a visit to Edinburgh International Book Festival, or check out a ton of events at BOOK FRINGE, the grassroots festival run by Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop, Argonaut Books - @argonautbooks.bsky.social and Typewronger Books All this and more in our August book event highlights! 📚 theskinny.co.uk/books/events/s…

Our forthcoming event with Helen Charman & Hannah Proctor gets an honourable mention in The Skinny's round-up of August book events. There's still a few *free* in person and online tickets available from our website: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/helen-ch…

Our summer sale starts today and runs throughout August, with discounts of up to 60% off all titles in our back catalogue. Novels & poetry collections starting at £6, previous issues of our anthology for £6, Test Centre books/vinyl for as little as £4. prototypepublishing.co.uk/shop/

In case you missed it, I spoke with Tender Buttons Podcast about my novel Vehicle, or more specifically about experimental writing, the politics of translation & language learning, arts funding, borders & making writing/reading fun.

‘To be truly alive, no matter our age or circumstance, we should all be able to imagine growing up, always. We should remain in the subjunctive mood, in a state of becoming—never reaching a destination or hardening into any one thing.’

1,000 times yes to this: 'It might be useful to name the causes and the emotional ramifications of this pervasive depletion more precisely.' h nn h pr ct r, 'Against Capacity': substack.com/home/post/p-14…

From the nursery to the prison, from the clinic to the commune, MOTHER MEDIA tells the story of how our contemporary understanding of what a mother is came to be and how understandings of “bad” mothering formed our contemporary panics about “bad” media. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049559/…

Actually, BBC News (UK) a lynch mob is not a “protest”, and “turned ugly” is quite the euphemism for a mob trying to burn people to death.

🚨NEW: Mick Lynch has urged RMT branches to contact local mosques, refugee centres and solidarity groups to offer the union’s solidarity and support Lynch has called for a "movement-wide response so that we do not allow such vile shows of racism to divide working class unity"

‘I get caught up in the world.’ from The Wastes by Roy Claire Potter.

Should billionaires be taxed to fix the planet? #elonmusk

🚫 NO TO SECTION 60. A new campaign from the Cable launching today is calling for an end to the controversial, racist police power. Full story: Racist and traumatising: Inside a suspicionless search operation, by Sean Morrison: buff.ly/3YzQgBC

🧵 We stand in solidarity with communities mobilising against racism, fascism and far-right violence.

Anne, we love you. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

oh who knew turns out the solution was even just a fragment of political will Fossil Free Books scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu…

I’ll be at Birmingham Lit Fest on 5th October talking about the politics of care: 🎟️ birmingham-rep.co.uk/whats-on/inter…

We've started a Friday newsletter at Parapraxis, where our editors recommend events, readings, and more. I went first. Sign up for our newsletter at the bottom of this page: parapraxismagazine.com/about

Late to the party but leaving this website today. Still on Insta for now, same name. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…