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Yale Announces 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has announced the winner of the twenty-seventh annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize.

I really enjoyed this book. Congratulations to Justene Hill Edwards. macmillan.yale.edu/stories/yale...

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Dublin Literary Award Longlist 2026 The Dublin Literary Award nominations have been revealed, an award that allows international libraries to nominate one work of fiction, therefore achieving its aim to promote excellence in world li…

69 nominated novels for the Dublin Literary Award from
36 countries, 20 debut authors, 30 translated titles in 17 languages
I created a list by country with the nominating library

A longlist up to 20 titles, to be announced on 17 Feb

@dublinlitaward.bsky.social

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Bright orange graphic with bold, cut-out style lettering. At the top it reads “Mayor of London” and “Great News”. Large white and purple text states “100 million free school meals served so far…”. The words “free school meals” appear in a child-like handwritten font.

Two years ago, I introduced a pioneering policy to provide free school meals for all of London’s state primary school children.

Today we’re celebrating 100 million free school meals provided since September 2023.

Graphic with an image of a woman in a pink and blue swimsuit jumping into water, with illustrated swimmers cheering around her. Text reads: “Mayor of London. Great news. London joins the Swimmable Cities Alliance.”

Thanks to our bold policies, we’ve made great progress in cleaning up London’s air. I’m committed to doing the same with our rivers.

Our Clean and Healthy Waterways Plan will set out our priorities to reduce pollution, restore biodiversity and improve access to rivers over the next 10 years.

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.

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.

As predicted.

RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!

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...

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

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

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?...

This is why they’re deleting studies

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

'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

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New £7,000 award launched for gambling-themed books

A new award recognising gambling-themed books with a prize of £7,000 is set to be launched in January next year 👇 #BookSky

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.

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.

Open Window, Collioure (1905) by Henri Matisse.
Oil on canvas.

Tiny bookshop painted to look like bookshelves turns heads in German town

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

#indieauthors #writing #writingsky #Author #WritingCommunity

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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A photo of a little boy swimming

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...

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.

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...
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Starved in Jail Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

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.