I won a prize for Small Fires and I am just over the moon about it!

Had a really nice conversation with Holly Connolly for AnOther Magazine
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Seeing Jo on the LRB Bookshop weekly bestseller pile with Helen Garner and Gillian Rose makes me very happy.

‘Boredom is a complicated stink of an emotion, one that is far more layered than we presume.’

Nuar Alsadir on boredom.

granta.com/on-boredom/

The happiest of happy publication days to Eliza Barry Callahan, whose absurdly – frankly, frighteningly – good debut The Hearing Test publishes today

peninsulapress.co.uk/products/the-h…

'Brilliant' Natasha Brown

'I enjoyed it hugely' David Nicholls

'An acid chamber piece. I loved it' Chris Power

'A sharp book, beautifully written' Rumaan Alam

'A perfect and perfectly merciless novel' Sarah Bernstein

I am so proud to publish Jo's #TheHypocrite today!

Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful Philip Pullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books

Solidarity with all the university staff in the US standing alongside their students . Solidarity with the students taking action on campuses all over the world in support of Palestine. And eternal shame on the administrators calling the cops on their own students. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Jo Hamya: ‘Could I just write one massive grey area?’ theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Sarah Bernstein & I have written a short article for Verso Books about the vote on supporting a ceasefire at the Society of Authors EGM on the 2nd May.

Now is the time for us - as writers - to unite for Palestine & make sure our union represent us

versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

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‘I could write something called “Not Writing.” I am writing it. Soon, I’ll have been the one who wrote it.’

Not Writing, an extract from Danielle Dutton’s Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other – now available to read via n+1.

Read here:
nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

JAZZY
theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

The Telegraph

The Hearing Test gets 5 stars in the paper today and is called “Psychological Ekphrasis”!

Thank you Kate Simpson

telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-…

Come see/listen/adore my angel Verso Books authors Stephanie LaCava & Hannah at Sadie Coles next Thursday

We are so excited to welcome Erin Maglaque to Cape!

The Bookseller Harriet Moore

thebookseller.com/rights/jonatha…

i'm writing a book!

THE HYPOCRITE is an LRB Bookshop spring pick!! Thank you Gayle Lazda 💚

A new book follows a narrator stricken by sudden deafness, treating hearing loss as both a “medical condition and a metaphor for the incompleteness of our knowledge of the world,” Katy Waldman writes. nyer.cm/waIcYM9

Event !

Euphoric + moving news—Kathryn Scanlan is a recipient of this vocation-changing prize.

'Blending documentary and fiction, Kathryn Scanlan fuses mundane experiences with the density of a redemptive vision, capturing the harrowing events of ordinary lives in raw, hard-hitting prose.'