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🎥📸 Calling all storytellers, creatives, and content creators!
The Black British Book Festival is back, and we're looking for passionate individuals to join the #BBBF26 Media Team.
If you're skilled in social media management, videography, photography, content creation, or simply know how to capture moments that matter, we'd love to hear from you.
This is your opportunity to go behind the scenes of Europe's largest Black Book Festival, help tell powerful stories, and be part of a team celebrating Black literature, culture, and creativity.
Ready to create with us?
Apply now: bit.ly/BBBF26Media
For further information:
operations@blackbritishbookfestival.com
#BBBF26#BlackBritishBookFestival#MediaTeam#CallOut#Photography#Videography#SocialMedia#ContentCreators#BlackLiterature
The 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize closes for entries in three weeks! In the spirit of the prize being open to work in translation, and to help spread the word further, we have gathered some translations of the reminder message from our team!
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ALT Orange background. In white and black text is the phrase 'Three weeks to go! Enter the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize by 30 June 2026.' This has been translated into six other languages.
ALT Orange background. In black text is the phrase 'Three weeks to go! Enter the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize by 30 June 2026.' translated into Urdu.
ALT Orange background. In black text is the phrase 'Three weeks to go! Enter the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize by 30 June 2026.' translated into Mandarin.
ALT Orange background. In black text is the phrase 'Three weeks to go! Enter the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize by 30 June 2026.' translated into Spanish.
A lovely interview with poet and singer-songwriter @KaeSun in @the_table_read, discussing his upcoming pamphlet Flood Season, out from @flippedeye on 2nd December. Spot the reference to the idea of home as a sound 🔊
I'm sorry, @Parcel2Go officially has the worst customer service known to delivery. We sent a package to @PoetryBookSoc two weeks ago - TWO WEEKS!! - they have not delivered it. #Evri accepts that they misplaced the parcel & didn't deliver it, yet Parcel2Go is rejecting our claim.
Because the literature we publish travels beautifully, beautiful things – like this unique personalised bookmark from @ConradHotels – get made with it. Come and hang with us on Monday when we turn 25 YEARS OLD. Get #FREE tickets & follow us on Eventbrite: us.list-manage.com/8LvI1TbDE…
As part of our 25th year celebrations, we take over the Listening Lounge at Mason & Fifth on the day of our founding. 12pm to 7pm. Discounts, readings from 5pm films, music & vibes!! Stop by at any time. Sign up so we know how many free treats to bring.
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ALT Rectangular graphic showing the date and time of flipped eye publishing's takeover of the Listening Lounge at Mason & Fifth. Text superimposed on images of four poets – Jacob Sam-La Rose, Amina Jama, Samatar Elmi and Charlotte Ansell – reading
Our bookshop audits always turn up surprises. On a recent visit to the @OwlBookshop in Kentish Town we found our #NathalieHandal's LIFE IN A COUNTRY ALBUM sitting between Rilke & the inimitable @PJHarveyUK
(Not sure order was alphabetical; maybe L-R degrees of ascending cool?)
We've been quiet for a bit, but we just want to remind the world that we turn 25 this year – 25, TWENTY-FIVE!! As indie publishers we know how special it is to be around this long and how much it signals the support of YOU, our readers worldwide. THANK YOU.
#FECrew#FERocks
2006: I'm in my early 30s, ridiculously ambitious and I conceive this poetry/music box set - The Hot 5* Project: Poetry, Music & Politics - that never came to fruition because of lack of funding.
*(a nod to Louis Armstrong )
Thrilled to have my poem FLOWERS published in The Aftershock Review, a new poetry journal published in London – ed Max Wallis with Anna Percy & Suzi Feay
FLOWERS is part of a body of work honoring my journey with @rodnordland through brain cancer #glioblastoma#narrativemedicine
I went out auditing our collaborative publishing projects in the wild (aka @Foyles recently): Bless the Daughter... w/ @randomhouse/@PenguinUKBooks & Epic of Cader Idris with @BloomsburyBooks. Both looking good. Keep supporting them as it helps our work. We have more on the way!
As part of our Writing the Self, Writing Berlin series, @DivyaGhelani spoke with Siddhartha Lokanandi, founder of Hopscotch Reading Room, a Berlin-based English-language bookshop since 2017 — haven for the intellectual – and political – bibliophile.
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ALT Pale purple background. Headline in very dark blue reads: ‘I Was Destined to Do This Nonsense’: Siddhartha Lokanandi on Hopscotch Reading Room. Underneath is an illustration of Siddhartha. He is a Black man with gold-rimmed glasses, pictured in a black jumper.