🇹🇹WHEN WE WERE BIRDS (2022) OCM Bocas Prize, Author’s Club First Novel Award, Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award | Agent - Tracy Bohan, Wylie Agency
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This Sunday's cover: our 10 best debut novelists of 2022 📚
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A world of different perspectives.
Our latest @bookshop_org_UK shelf spotlights @nbolitfest 2025 participants – a reading list of insightful storytelling for our times.
Dive in! uk.bookshop.org/lists/nairob…
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Cécile Fatiman was a mambo, a Haitian vodou priestess. She is famous for her participation in the vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman, which is considered to be the starting point of the Haitian Revolution. #negritude #PanAfricanism #Haiti #Ayiti #CecileFatiman #haitianheritage
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🚨The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
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Just so y'all know, the 45 day Israeli military closure of Al-Jazeera in The West Bank exactly corresponds with the US presidential elections on November 5th.
Because of course it does. Settler violence never plays well...
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🏆The 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is open for submissions.🏆
Now in its 15th year, the prize celebrates books of fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction by writers of Caribbean birth/citizenship.
Info at bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/
@OCM_Group #OCMBocasPrize2025
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In the words of the great Jab King: JAB COULD NEVER HIDE. 🇬🇩
This video recap of Spicemas 2024 in Grenada makes me very emotional. Black people are so powerful beyond measure. The Caribbean will always be a Cultural Capital of the world! 🖤
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$20b in weapons to continue a genocide they say is not happening.
hard to comprehend sheer inhumanity of Biden admin approving $20 billion arms deal to Israel knowing the country has killed 15,000 kids in Gaza, including 115 newborns. 17,000 kids are separated from families, & likely 4,000 kids — a 9/11 of just kids — still buried under rubble
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Israel bombed refugee tents in the very Muwasi area they designated as Gaza’s sole “safe zone”, then bombed fire fighters that came to the rescue.
A carnage of epic proportions, with about 50-100 people murdered!
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This is what I’ve been trying to get into people’s skulls for the longest while re: the
#climatecrisis. The ultra-wealthy have the resources to escape/ survive natural disasters. WE will be left to fight up.
The time to demand radical change was yesterday. WAKE UP.
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How is this not genocide. My god.
BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.
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Is it me or is this mad for June? Stay safe my Caribbean 💙
Update: 11:35 AM AST Sunday - Reconnaissance aircraft find #Beryl has strengthen into an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane with maximum winds of 130 mph. Life-threatening winds and storm surge expected in the Windward Islands beginning early Monday morning. Latest at hurricanes.gov
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355 bullets. If you’re still supporting this, supporting the killing of kids in Gaza, you’re a sociopath. No other word for it.
Forensic investigation reveals Hind Rajab's car was hit with 355 bullets and finds it "not plausible" that the Israeli tank couldn't see children inside the car
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Yes. All of this.
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Yesss @kevinjhosein!! 🎉🎉🎉
The Caribbean writer @KevinJHosein has won the £25,000 #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction 2024 for his novel HUNGRY GHOSTS (@bloomsburybooks), which tells the story of marginalised Hindu communities in colonial 1940s Trinidad. #histfic #HungryGhosts
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UEA #CreativeWriting news
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Determination by Tawseef Khan (@itsmetawseef)
Ferdia Lennon, Nick Bradley (@nasubijutsu), and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (@AyaRoots) selected for ILX 10
Never Had a Dad by Georgie Codd
The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal (@esmacneal)
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Introducing the ILX10: Rising Stars of UK writing! ⭐ We’re delighted to share 10 early-career writers whose work has the powerful potential to speak to & engage with global literary audiences. Supported by @BritishArts @ace_southeast. Part of #LitExchange buff.ly/3KvmYfi
Here’s the full list. Honoured to be on it with you all 🎉
⭐Nick Bradley @nasubijutsu
⭐Tice Cin @ticecin
⭐afshan d’souza-lodhi @afshandl
⭐Lucy Holland @silvanhistorian
⭐Ferdia Lennon
⭐Marjorie Lotfi @marjorielotfi
⭐Ayanna Lloyd Banwo @AyaRoots
⭐Lynsey May @LynseyMay
⭐Derek Owusu @DerekVsOwusu
⭐Fiona Williams @FeeWilliams75