Readers wanted! Our friends SI Leeds Lit Prize are looking for volunteer readers to help judge the 2024 SI Readers’ Choice Award, selecting their favourite from a shortlist of six manuscripts. Find out more here: tinyurl.com/bdd6svcn #BookLoversDay

Good news. Our lived experience #poet in residence application deadline is extended until midnight, Wed 14th August 2024. There's still time to share, or to get your applications in. #mentalhealth #Leeds bit.ly/RWFpoetinresid…

👀 Cracking opportunity from Creative Debuts 👀 Their Black Artists Grant Fund is a £500 grant for whatever you need - making new work, buying equipment or materials, travel or to even just cover some life expenses. Find out more here👇 bit.ly/46M7Og0

Are you a working-class book lover? 📖 If you identify as working-class, like to read & live in the UK, please contribute to this survey for New Writing North's A Writing Chance project, which aims to open access to the writing industries. Closes 15 Sept yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ae…

📢Calling book groups! 📚 We need volunteer judges for the SI Readers’ Choice Award: sign up & you could get an online author visit from 2022 winner Laura Fish to discuss winning novel, Lying Perfectly Still. Limited places. Sign up by 30 August. sileedsliteraryprize.com/calling-book-g…

Calling book groups! 📚 We need volunteer judges for the SI Readers’ Choice Award: sign up & get an online author visit from 2022 winner Laura Fish to discuss winning novel, Lying Perfectly Still. Limited places. Sign up by 30 August. Please RT! sileedsliteraryprize.com/calling-book-g…

Join us in London on Thursday 12th September for an exclusive one-day event to discuss decolonisation and inclusivity in creative writing pedagogy and publishing w/ MA Black British Literature (2015-2024) Angelique Golding Sunny Singh Leone Ross FRSL Diana Evans Book by 1/9/24: city.ac.uk/news-and-event…

#AuthorsofTwitter (or X 😂), stop scrolling now! Digital Publishing Uncovered is an online event for BAME writers looking to develop their craft and learn about digital publishing! Find out more and sign up: ow.ly/nWzi50SVC2i

The V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize honours the best unpublished story of the year, celebrating the legacy of V.S. Pritchett - one of the finest English short-story writers of the 20th century. Apply now! 50 free entries available for low-income writers: bit.ly/VSPP

⏰ Last chance to sign up! ⏰ If you're a book lover and you'd like to be part of our 2024 SI Readers' Choice Award volunteer judging panel, get in touch by 30 August. 🔗 Details on our website: sileedsliteraryprize.com/were-looking-f…

We are in the Edinburgh News RegencyAuthor for our panel on all things scandalous and unladylike - join us on the 27th! Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival edinburghnews.scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu…

I cannot wait to talk to the novelist, Okechukwu Nzelu Okechukwu Nzelu, about my award-winning 2013 novel Mr Loverman, broadcast on the BBC this autumn as an 8-part drama adaptation, at this GuardianLive event on September 26th. I absolutely love the adaptation!

Events and Opportunities from Commonword - mailchi.mp/cf093c0cc8f2/c…

Late to the party? Registrations close today at 5pm. Here's a direct link to grab that last-minute ticket: estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalo…

FROM THE Women's Prize LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF 'STRANGE MUSIC'. WINNER: SI Leeds Lit Prize READER'S CHOICE AWARD 2022. 'LYING PERFECTLY STILL' by Laura Fish Leaving Oxford and the shocking death of her father behind, Koliwe travels to AIDS-ravaged Eswatini to take a job as

As Black-centred programmes at Chichester,Winchester,BirminghamCity&Goldsmiths are removed from the university (all within a year), this event will enable timely discussions of protest &next steps. Kehinde Andrews Words of Colour Kadija George Kurt Barling Gary Younge Lara Pawson

An insightful and thought-provoking day at Sail Fest UK and #HEartS at Royal College of Music