UK rapper Stormzy and adidas have announced the opening of  #Merky FC HQ, a newly built football, music, and community centre in his home borough Croydon, London!

Worried about the unexplained disappeared from LBC of Sangita Myska. She’s a brave, principled journalist and an excellent broadcaster. Listeners will be missing her. What’s the explanation?

Nine days to go…will we fill that final place?? Please RT wildly….

It would be a brutal loss to our academia and literary resource if this MA were to be cut. It's the postgraduate course I might have chosen if it had existed before it did. Sign and help save #Goldsmiths MA in Black British Literature MA in Black British Literature change.org/p/save-the-ma-…

Kabat's 'community becomes a lens through which she explores political, economic, and ecological issues, mining the archives + the work of Adrienne Rich and Elizabeth Hardwick along the way.' 🙏 The Millions sophia stewart for incl The Eighth Moon themillions.com/2024/04/most-a…👇🌙🌙🌙🌙

Reading and talking to #AGoodRead presenter Harriett Gilbert tonight in Barnes, St Mary's Church, courtesy of Barnes Literary Society, 8pm 👇barnesliterarysociety.org.uk/diana-evans-ev…

Are you a member of academic teaching staff at a university where arts/culture courses are being cut? Would like to hear from you. Drop me an email summarising what's being cut, impact & a contact number & will try to get back to you. Drop me a line at: [email protected]
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I wrote about feelings of failure, two years on after my debut was published. Thank you to Molly Flatt for the space to excavate these feelings:

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I wrote a piece for Guardian music about how UK Rap has influenced and changed language in Britain.

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Turn the Fictionable #podcast up to eleven with #writers like Linda Mannheim mike harrison Joyce Carol Oates Etgar Keret Diana Evans and more…

Download for free at fictionable.world or via #ApplePodcasts #Spotify #Acast and elsewhere…

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Alice is doing really well on the Historical African Fiction chart (!), and she's also 99p on Kindle until the end of this month #AHouseforAlice

Welcome to Curdle Creek. A rural town with a strict population policy. One in. One out. This is the lovely US Henry Holt & Company cover! Can’t wait for you to read it! Pub date Oct 15. Or pre-order #amwriting #WriterCommunity #readers #books #fiction

The paperback of A House for Alice is out now, so it's cheaper, lighter and greener - here's the link, enjoy: bit.ly/ahouseforalice 💥👇💚
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And #comics from Sabba Khan Lizzy Stewart Isabel Greenberg and more…

Thanks for a thought-provoking conversation on mixed-raceness Isabella Silvers

Tomorrow 4.30pm on BBC Radio 4 Ordinary People is #AGoodRead , also featuring Maggie Nelson's The Red Parts and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities which I've been meaning to read for ages, listenable online afterwards BBC Sounds thank you Harriett Gilbert

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A Profile of Percival Everett, the author of the book behind the Oscar-winning film “American Fiction”—and one of contemporary literature’s greatest tricksters. nyer.cm/aGLuKxW

The news of Nutcracker in Havana is out there in the world 🥳 I am so excited to be bringing this new production to life.

Read more about the show, and book your tickets for a number of venues now.
nutcrackerinhavana.com #Nutcracker InHavana #AcostaDanza #Nutcracker Acosta Danza

Submissions open on 1 April for the 2024 SI Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished Black and Asian women writing - don't miss (closes 13 May) SI Leeds Lit Prize sileedsliteraryprize.com

It's really time for these Tories to leave the building. Respect to Diane Abbott MP for withstanding in the face of direct hatred and violence. Frank Hester should be criminally charged and no Kemi Badenoch this is not trivia. #DianeAbbott