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@gwr.com seriously!???!!! What kind of an upgrade is this to your website and app!!! Cant display tix booked before 23 Feb; requests to use PDfs of tix; unable to amend tix before that booking date. Extra inconvenience to your customers; frankly this sucks!

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Happy Halloween 👻

Splendid evening @southbankcentre.bsky.social celebrating @wasafirimag.bsky.social Nee Writing Prize. Beautiful readings, Great Panel on Literary Translation and moving speeches from the winners! The panel of judges was chaired this year by Romesh Gunesekera - Congratulations, team!!!!

Stella Gaitano’s PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage 2025 Speech Stella Gaitano, PEN Pinter Prize Writer of Courage 2025.

'I want to remove the fingers of accusation that are always directed at others, and instead hold up a mirror. Because at some point the other becomes the self.'

Stella Gaitano’s #PENPinterPrize Writer of Courage 2025 speech is now in #PENTransmissions.
pentransmissions.com/2025/10/17/s...

Leila Aboulela shares PEN Pinter Prize 2025 with Stella Gaitano - News & Events - English PEN

Leila Aboulela, winner of the #PENPinterPrize 2025, has announced writer, journalist and human rights activist, Stella Gaitano, as this year’s Writer of Courage.
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

What a wonderful resource.

South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories | British Library Join us for an evening of captivating readings, thought-provoking conversations, and a uniquely immersive oral history ‘sound bath’ that brings to life the

We were able to make a few last minute tickets for our @remakingbritain.bsky.social event at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social tonight. They’ve been flying out of the box office… events.bl.uk/events/south...

The 1925 Special Restrictions (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order 2025 marks the centenary of the passing of the ‘Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, requiring maritime workers of colour to register with the police and forcing them to bear a Certifica...

To mark the centenary of the 1925 Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order, a wrote a blog for @britishlibrary.bsky.social Untold Lives: blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/... find out more on the digital resource South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories @remakingbritain.bsky.social

South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories | British Library Join us for an evening of captivating readings, thought-provoking conversations, and a uniquely immersive oral history ‘sound bath’ that brings to life the

We were able to make a few last minute tickets for our @remakingbritain.bsky.social event at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social tonight. They’ve been flying out of the box office… events.bl.uk/events/south...

Wasafiri is a magazine that thrives and survives from the support of our community.

Deputy Chair of Trustees, @flostadt.bsky.social, speaks about Wasafiri as an extraordinary forum for writing and ideas from across the globe.

Please consider subscribing to support our work: buff.ly/fKcSUXL

And southasianbritain.org is live - 33 months in the making - partnership by @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social & @britishlibrary.bsky.social, funded by @ukri.org/ahrc - 750+ entries, 30+oral histories, newly digitised archival docs & more; spread the word

Come join us for our first @remakingbritain.bsky.social project event to launch the South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories digital resource, a partnership of @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social
@bristolunienglish.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social

South Asian Britain: A sound bath & discussion Join us for a sound bath, followed by a discussion, to launch the new South Asian Britain digital resource, with South Asian Heritage Month.

Join us for our first event in Cardiff on 22 July at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff in collaboration with South Asian Heritage Trust for South Asian Heritage Month. More details and how to book via this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/south-asia...

#RootsToRoutes #SouthAsianHeritageMonth

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – A Tribute through the Wasafiri Archive In tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025), Wasafiri has lifted the paywall on a range of articles, stories, and interviews from our 41-year-old archive.

In tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025), Wasafiri has lifted the paywall on a range of his articles, stories, and interviews from our 41-year-old archive, each introduced by @flostadt.bsky.social‬, Deputy Chair and Trustee of Wasafiri.

Read & access here:

A brilliant winner for a most spellbinding book in a glorious translation that sets a new benchmark- many congratulations 🥳

Fabulous Event coming up at @wasafirimag.bsky.social loved this novel so much!

If you're an early-career researcher (incl. PhD students) in contemporary literature, submit your unpublished work to the 2025 Wasafiri Essay Prize by 30 June for a chance to win publication, cash, academic mentoring, and a Wasafiri subscription.

buff.ly/eBXbXTz

Watch @noreenmasud.bsky.social – Life Writing judge for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize – talk about her own unconventional journey to becoming a memoirist, and what she's hoping to find in entries this year. Prize deadline is 30 June.

buff.ly/QYxxQTa

🧵 #southasianhistory #secondworldwar #ww2

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Fredric Jameson was born April 14, 1934 Fredric Jameson produced some of the most important Marxist cultural criticism of the twentieth century. To celebrate what would have been his 91st birthday, we're offering up to 40% off his titles. F...

Fredric Jameson produced some of the most important Marxist cultural criticism of the twentieth century.

To celebrate what would have been his 91st birthday, we're offering up to 40% off his titles.

This was such an important doc but also one that highlighted the fact how unwilling some are in the UK to confront the fact that colonialism was a violent system of oppression that continues to reverberate…

Great to hear Amitav Ghosh introduce his new book, Wild Fiction in a wide ranging conversation with Pankaj Mishra #books

Fellowship Applications and Renewals

There's still time to apply for an IES Fellowship! We will consider all topics within the field of English Studies, the history of the book, manuscript studies & palaeography, bibliography, textual scholarship & scholarly editing.

Deadline: 10 April

More info here:
ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...

That’s brilliant news - many congratulations. I know how hard you’ve been working on this over the years. Am sending good vibes your way for a smooth journey through the editorial and production process. Can’t wait to see it in print.

As Abdulrazak Gurnah‘s latest, Theft, has just been published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, I’m resharing this excellent in conversation, This Cultural Life from 2022 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Me and countless other authors today…😂

Curriculum Review: The case for broadening - not abolishing - EBacc Would removing EBacc increase access to arts and other SHAPE subjects? It’s not clear that it would.

The Curriculum and Assessment Review in England released interim findings this week - and sparked debate about the future of EBacc at GCSE. Dr Lynton Lees sets out why EBacc matters and the dangers of pitting subjects against each other:

Weekend Reading - excited to start Abdulrazak Gurnah’s latest - Theft

Retrograde at the Apollo theatre 🎭 is a must see- a stunning play about Sidney Poitier, moral choices, Hollywood and principles. A play that I loved at the Kiln theatre that has now even more urgency. Powerful central performances and exquisite direction by Amit Sharma