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Our thoughts and solidarity are with all affected by the racist and Islamophobic attacks taking place across the UK. We stand together against far-right violence and in support of all of our members and wider communities affected by these attacks.

Now’s the time to please check in on your Black, Brown and minority friends, family, neighbours and colleagues. In many parts of the country, they don’t feel safe. A thread:

the antifascist crowd is MASSIVE in newcastle tonight!

The love, hope, strength and solidarity of the people of Newcastle is once again a wonder to behold!

Over £60,000 has been raised for a carer who finished a 12hr shift to find his car had been flipped & burned during riots in Middlesborough on Sunday. Brendan Nwabichie, 33, said he had been saving for 12 months to buy the vehicle itv.com/news/tyne-tees…

“What I am experiencing now, what I think many of us are experiencing, is a kind of distributed mourning,” writes Christina Sharpe. Read her essay, “The Shapes of Grief,” in our fall issue. yalereview.org/article/christ…

Join us as we launch our 40th Anniversary Issue, Wasafiri 119: Futurisms, on 28 September Museum of the Home, London –– featuring readings from contributors Malika Booker, Preti Taneja, and AnnieZaidi 😍 wasafiri.org/news-and-event…

Brand new programme for the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA)! Join NCLA for the first in this exciting scheudule. 🗓️3 October Tan Twan Eng in conversation with Preti Taneja to discuss his celebrated work, 'The House of Doors'. Book > bit.ly/3B7nbDP

Swedish PEN awards the 2024 Tucholsky Prize to the Yemeni writer and journalist Bushra al-Maqtari. svenskapen.se/senaste-nytt/2… You can read her beautiful, devastating "What Have You Left Behind?" tr. Sawad Hussain

Tonight at our #PENCongress Opening Ceremony , we will honour the life and work of Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian writer, poet, and academic, who was killed alongside his family in an Israeli airstrike on 7 December 2023. Alareer dedicated his life to amplifying the voices of

PEN Presents x International Booker Prize is open! This round of our samples grant is in partnership with The Booker Prizes, & is open to translators from the Global Majority working from any language & region. Apply by 30 November, & spread the word. englishpen.org/translation/pe…

Publishers: #PENTranslates is open for submissions until 30 November! The award helps UK publishers to meet the costs of translating new works into English, while ensuring translators are acknowledged and paid properly for their work. englishpen.org/translation/pe…

Entrepreneur, housewife, partner, mother – it can happen to all four. Preti Taneja explores domestic abuse in the North East by speaking to charities and services who work with women across social strata and age groups. Read Preti's North East Now essay: newwritingnorth.com/journal/north-…

BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history. lithub.com/hundreds-of-au…

Publishing Aftermath in India this month with Sayantan Ghosh Simon & Schuster India ✨, grateful always for the courageous editors and radical publishers, and all the readers who believe in this book 🙏🏾

📝 The Finchale Award for Short Fiction offers £1000 to the writer of a single, unpublished short story. This award was established by @BenMyers1, and this year will be judged by Paul Smith and Preti Taneja.

Honored that “The Book of Disappearance” is longlisted for the #InternationalBooker2025! Thanks to everyone at And Other Stories And Other Stories, especially Tara Tobler, Stefan Tobler, and Preti Taneja and grateful to Sinan Antoon سنان أنطون for his wonderful translation!

Congratulations to ابتسام عازم and Sinan Antoon سنان أنطون, as The Book of Disappearance is longlisted for the #InternationalBooker2025! ✨ An unforgettable glimpse into contemporary Palestine as it grapples with both the memory of loss and the loss of memory uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-bo…

To all friends In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free. In this post, we share with you links to films you can view and share to get our message out to the world: • A collection

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