We’re delighted to announce that our #BFLAOpenWeek is returning soon - 5 days of free, online advice, giveaways & tips for writers, from 8th July to 12th July – don’t miss it!📚✍️ For details of what’s planned & how to join in, see our website: blakefriedmann.co.uk/open-week

Online Ukrainian Institute London event with soldier and writer Artem Chekh - not to be missed! 8 July.

Great to be part of #SHARP2024 panel on ‘Women, publishing and power in & beyond South Africa’ (my focus on Schreiner) along with Beth le Roux and Lesley Cowling, chaired by Emma Shercliff. A key theme was the interplay between different types of publication incl the more ephemeral.

⭐️NEW⭐️ 'Dip My Brain In Joy: A Life With Neil Innes' by Yvonne Innes Bonzos, Beatles, Pythons and Rutles, life inside the circus of our quiet national treasure and sweet idiot laureate by the woman who knew him best and loved him most 24-10-24 Buy Now geni.us/DipMyBraininJoy

I am still shell-shocked that the New York Times Books would confidently title a list with mostly Euro-American writers "Best 100 Books of the 21st Century." Only one African writer is on the list! This is not a list. This is an instrument of archival erasure. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Really looking forward to Primadonna Festival and Prize CIO today. Budding writers - come and chat to me today in the Chapel, 10.30 - 12.00. Feel free to ask me anything about agenting/publishing, or pitch me your book! #LaxfieldLiterary #PrimadonnaFestival

Congratulations on new book “My Dear #Kabul” by Afghan women writers - some of their team came in to the BBC Radio 4 Today studio - Lucy Hannah Batool Haidari Dr Parwana Fayyaz Untold Narratives 📚

Exciting news! My novel has just been published in translation in France by @Ed_Julliard. It’s my third book in French and I am stoked.🕺🕺🕺 Do grab a copy if you read French🪳

📣 There's still time to apply to #Escalator! Escalator offers a structured period of mentoring, guidance and support to unpublished writers based in the East of England, whose voices are under-represented on UK bookshelves. Apply now: buff.ly/3rbpBwC

🎙️📚"The writers of 'My Dear Kabul' emphasise that the diary is not a plea to the world. These women are not writing to be saved, but to be seen and be heard." Tune in to a conversation with Marie, Dr Parwana Fayyaz and Sunila Galappatti of Untold Narratives: open.spotify.com/episode/3NQJPw…

Today we’re in the studio with Yvonne Innes as she records the audiobook about her remarkable and beautiful life with Neil. Dip your brain in joy from 24th October geni.us/DipMyBraininJoy

“Monty Python and Rutles mastermind remembered with love. Yvonne’s grief at his sudden death in 2019 vibrates through Dip My Brain In Joy, but so does Neil’s unworldly good humour ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️” MOJO Magazine 24-10-24 Do we have to spell it out? geni.us/DipMyBraininJoy

Incredibly moving evening at ⁦British Library⁩ listening to Afghan women tell ⁦lyse doucet⁩ explain how their desperate WhatsApp messages about life under the Taliban became a book - and a very powerful one everyone should read ⁦Coronet⁩

📣The Caine Prize for African Writing is delighted to announce that South African writer Nadia Davids has been awarded the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing for her outstanding short story, Bridling, published in The Georgia Review in 2023. 📚🌟🇿🇦 Congratulations Nadia! ✨

One year ago today, Siamak Namazi – the wrongfully detained and longest-held US citizen in Iran – was set free along with four fellow prisoners. Today, he wrote to The Economist, thanking the news magazine for the lifeline it became behind bars: “These contraband copies of The

It took me a year to do so, but I finally talk to CNN about my experience as a US hostage in Iran. edition.cnn.com/2024/09/23/Tv/…

(Also) Tomorrow! Celebrate the publication of ‘Dip My Brain in Joy’ at a very special event- Yvonne Innes in conversation with Adrian Edmondson ❎. Tickets: tinyurl.com/Innes21Soho 📕

My The Bookseller #nonfiction Book of the Month for March is this work of compelling & courageous testimony by Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina (1986-2023) William Collins Books