
Mona Arshi
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FRSL.POET @pavilionpoetry //ex Human rights lawyer// rep’d @felicitybryan //NOVEL @andothertweets andotherstories.org/somebody-loves… birds🐦,Punjabi
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I promise you the ending is so worth it!! And Other Stories 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Check out Mona Arshi's upcoming event with The Sher Jung Foundation eventbrite.co.uk/e/authortalks-…

Mona Arshi Mona Arshi (Dear Big Gods, Small Hands) kicks off the Sher Jung Foundation’s The Sher Jung Foundation Author Talks Series later this month – join her on March 25th, tickets here: bit.ly/435dG1S

We're open for submissions!🌿 The Laurel Prize 2024, is open now - 31 May 24. With 3 new judges at the helm: Mona Arshi (Mona Arshi), Caroline Bird (Caroline Bird) & Kwame Dawes (Kwame Dawes). Looking for collections published: 17 Apr 23 - 31 May 24 laurelprize.com/how-to-enter/


We’re so excited for our next #AuthorTalks event with the acclaimed Kavita Puri More details See you there 😉


The brilliant Nathalie Teitler and Royal Society of Literature panel judge ⬇️

Excited to be publishing my third collection of poetry MOUTH with Chatto&Windus Penguin Books UK ( six years since my last book of poems) and delighted that Sarah Howe will be editing and curating such an electrifying list .

Crocodiles, fireflies, a soul hitching a ride on a bee, the coolness of Switzerland, anagrams, and a mysterious rhyming poem. @theleano Mona Arshi Tom Chatfield and John McAuliffe join @imcmillan on @bbcradio4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…


An otherwise glum day made better by this little treat from Granta Books. V much enjoying going through this proof of ‘In Writing’ by atie and finding 💎, including from some of my poetry favs Mona Arshi and Will Harris 💚

We're delighted to announce our 2024 longlist! There are some incredible poets on this list! Judged by Mona Arshi, Caroline Bird & Kwame Dawes. The ceremony is being live-streamed on Sat 19 Oct at 5.30pm BST & we announce the shortlist on Mon 7 Oct so keep your eyes peeled 🌿


Delighted to announce The Laurel Prize 2024 longlist! There are incredible poets on this list! Judged by Mona Arshi, Caroline Bird & Kwame Dawes. The ceremony is being live-streamed on Sat 19 Oct at 5.30 pm BST & we announce the shortlist on Mon 7 Oct so keep your eyes peeled 🌿


My heart is brimming. To see ابتسام عازم on The Booker Prizes is a dream. Here's me nattering on about it and reading a little. Huge hugs to you, Ibtisam, & Sinan Antoon سنان أنطون & the And Other Stories team. Special thanks too to Preti Taneja & Palestine Festival of Literature, for putting her work in my hands.


This World Poetry Day, introducing Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority, a new gathering of African, Asian and Caribbean diaspora voices on nature. Edited by Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf, Nature Matters is out in May 2025 and available to pre-order now.


🪩OUT-SPOKEN LIVE IS BACK NEXT MONTH 🪩 Poetry that hits. Music that moves. A night you won’t forget. Join us at Southbank Centre, featuring: ✨ Fiona Benson ✨ Mona Arshi ✨ Susannah Dickey ✨ Alex Apolline ✨ Benjamin Cook 🗓 10 July 🎟 Book now — link in bio 🔗


Doing this on the 10th July and reading poems from the new collection Mouth Chatto&Windus
