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Dear everyone. I'm sorry I voted for this damned @UKLabour government. Email your MP: Vote to protect freedom of speech and against the ban on Palestine Action. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/email-… Thank you @fossilfreebooks for the nudge.

Zaf is a taxi driver. He’s born and bred Sunderland He broke down when he described the hate he’d received This was seconds before racial slurs were thrown, telling him to “go back to his own country” A short clip. Hard, but important, so please watch

@WritesRachael @Soc_of_Authors hasn't been turned into a trade union, it IS a trade union.

This is great news this evening. The Society of Authors , which has been hijacked & turned into a trade union, had 66 activist members force the rest of us, 12,500, to vote on this issue. I'm glad we turned out & blocked the resolution.

In The Company of Poems is next week! We're thrilled that Degna Stone will be joining us as one of our readers. Degna is a poet and poetry editor, co-founder & former Managing Editor of @ButchersDogMag and a Contributing Editor at @RialtoPoetry. Tickets: company-of-poems.eventbrite.co.uk

Big love to everyone who came to last week's show ❤️‍🔥 Ready for another one? Here's February’s line-up: 🎙️Jason Allen-Paisant 🎙️ Degna Stone 🎙️ Kit Fan 🎙️ Emmeline 🎙️ Jack Flash 🎟️ buff.ly/3SpVPOk 📅 Feb 29th 🕝 7.45pm 📍@southbankcentre BSL interpreted

Is this the year you start the Creative Writing MSt @litandcw_ice? There's still time to apply for the Joy Brandon Bursary for Black British Caribbean writers @Cambridge_ICE @cultureword @NewWritingNorth @wowfest @CreativeFuture @_CreativeAccess #funding bit.ly/41NZmua

@ninaparmenter It's basic admin to gather the emails of all the entrants. It takes a tiny bit of forward thinking and about ten minutes of admin time to send a generic 'sorry but not this time' email. It's the bare minimum you should expect.

Another competition gets struck off the list for not bothering to email me when I didn’t place. I’m usually a “hey, everyone’s doing their best” person, but this makes me huffy.