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Yvvette Edwards
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Writer. Author. A Cupboard Full of Coats. The Mother. RSL Fellow. Booker nommed. Reader of books. Lover of stories. Laughs at own jokes.
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 11d
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!

Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction sticker on the cover Vajra Chandrasekera, photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe. The author sits at a white table, arms resting in front of him, wearing a tan jacket and a white shirt.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12d
As predicted.
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12d
NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows
Read more here.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 11d
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · Sep 25
New HLQ issue live on Project MUSE. Articles explore imagined art in antislavery lit, deception in Stuart politics, reader engagement with the first English Quran, geopolitics in More's Utopia, anthologizing Shakespeare, and a bad actor in a c17 domestic dispute. #earlymodern #skystorians
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · Sep 23
We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025
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Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social · Sep 17
Congratulations to the winner of the inaugural RSL Pioneer Prize, Maureen Duffy 🎉

Duffy received news of her award earlier this month when Evaristo visited her at home. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/9ZB_AHdm4ts?...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 16
This is why they’re deleting studies
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Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social · Sep 16
'It’s no secret that older women writers tend to be overlooked...'

Bernardine Evaristo awards the first Pioneer prize for British female writers over 60 to Maureen Duffy 🎉

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
91-year-old author Maureen Duffy wins Pioneer prize launched by Bernardine Evaristo
The RSL president has set up a new literary award for female writers over 60 using the £100,000 she herself won through the Women’s prize
www.theguardian.com
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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · Sep 15
The incredible Bernardine Evaristo has used her @womensprize.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution Award to create a new @rsliterature.bsky.social Prize. For the next decade, we will be celebrating pioneering women writers, starting with Maureen Duffy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
91-year-old author Maureen Duffy wins Pioneer prize launched by Bernardine Evaristo
The RSL president has set up a new literary award for female writers over 60 using the £100,000 she herself won through the Women’s prize
www.theguardian.com
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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · Aug 20
Please spread the word: Are you working on your first commissioned work of non-fiction for a general readership? (You can have previously published for an academic audience). We’ve extended the deadline of the wonderful Giles St Aubyn Awards, three prizes £2.5k-£10k rsliterature.org/rsl-giles-st...
2025 Giles St Aubyn Awards for Non-Fiction. Three annual awards of £2,500, £5,000 and £10,000 for writers working on their first commissioned work of non-fiction for general readership. Now open until Monday 22 September.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Sep 14
So my mom has just… not had many good days the past few years. Her depression has made it tough to see how beautiful & perfect she is. Part of why I moved in aside from caretaking for my dad was to help her rediscover herself.

So we did a kimono shoot for her bday. Look at her radiant smile y’all.
My beautiful mother in my wife’s kimono passed down through her family. The kimono is black or navy with many gold and red flowers and a red obi. She has earrings, glasses and a big smile My beautiful mother by the stairs posing in my wife’s kimono passed down through her family. The kimono is black or navy with many gold and red flowers and a red obi. She has earrings, glasses and a big smile My beautiful mother in my wife’s kimono passed down through her family. The kimono is black or navy with many gold and red flowers and a red obi. She has earrings, glasses and a big smile. She is with my father and they are lovingly gazing at each other My beautiful mother in my wife’s kimono passed down through her family. The kimono is black or navy with many gold and red flowers and a red obi. She has earrings, glasses and a big smile. She is hugging lil ol me.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · Sep 15
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 176:
Don't underestimate your reader. Give them space to imagine; to dream. You don't need to tell them everything; just the things they need to know.
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Ian Scott @polpo.org · Sep 2
Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.
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Jinwoo Park @jinwoo-park.com · Sep 2
It's pub day in Canada for Oxford Soju Club. It all began in 2018 as an absurdly cliched action novel that also became my self-therapy. After 5 rewrites, edits, and a TikTok DM from my now-editor, it’s here.

Nervous, excited, ready to share my heart. I hope you enjoy meeting Jihoon, Yunah & Yohan.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Sep 1
A new award recognising gambling-themed books with a prize of £7,000 is set to be launched in January next year 👇 #BookSky
New £7,000 award launched for gambling-themed books
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Forbes @forbes.com · Aug 28
The number of Starbucks outlets in Malaysia have fallen to 320 currently from about 408 in June 2024 as some shops were closed amid declining revenue.
Starbucks Boycott In Malaysia Pushes Tycoon Vincent Tan’s Berjaya Food To Record Loss
The number of Starbucks outlets in Malaysia have fallen to 320 currently from about 408 in June 2024 as some shops were closed amid declining revenue.
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Linda @lindabythesea.bsky.social · Jun 28
Open Window, Collioure (1905) by Henri Matisse.
Oil on canvas.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Jun 28
ICYMI: A tiny new bookshop that has been decorated to look like the books are on the outside is attracting a lot of attention in Germany 👇 #BookSky
Tiny bookshop painted to look like bookshelves turns heads in German town
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · Jun 26
#indieauthors #writing #writingsky #Author #WritingCommunity
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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Jun 26
In this life writing piece shortlisted for the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, Sarah Anjum Bari (‪@wordsinteal.bsky.social‬) explores matrilineal relationships, patriarchal expectations, and rebellion for South Asian girls — and how hair can be at the root of it all.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jun 24
Outdoor Afro is offering scholarships to cover the costs of anyone, at any age, interested in learning how to swim: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A photo of a little boy swimming
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jun 24
I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers.

Easy money, no risk.

Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime.

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · Jun 15
Is your book group discussing VIANNE? Here's a handy reading group guide to help you get started, including themed recipes, background info, discussion questions and more...
www.joanne-harris.co.uk/vianne-readi...
VIANNE – Reading Group Guide | Joanne Harris
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jun 10
Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.
Starved in Jail
Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jun 10
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”

Doechii at the #BETAwards
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