I loved COREY FAH DOES SOCIAL MOBILITY by Isabel Waidner. Isabel Waidner

spent my bank holiday monday with this queer acid logic barnstormer by Isabel Waidner - inimitable stuff 🙏🙏

As do I.

Signed.

How it started…how it’s going.

Shame on you HOME for choosing to silence rather than celebrate Palestinian voices.

most surreal thing that’s ever happened to me

‘Cultural and social vandalism’: mass redundancy plans at Goldsmiths attacked theguardian.com/education/2024…

We are delighted that @IsabelWaidner is the Fiction judge for the 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.

Isabel is author of four novels, most recently Corey Fah Does Social Mobility (Hamish Hamilton), and winner of the 2021 The Goldsmiths Prize: buff.ly/3x4NaK0

This Friday we are excited to be hosting the London launch of Hannah Levene’s GREASEPAINT, an exciting new experimental work of lesbian fiction exploring the Yiddish Anarchist tradition and rich history of butch dyke culture. Tickets and more details here: buff.ly/3TQGokc

In this tally there are now 20 (TWENTY) universities with restructures and redundancies. How on earth isn't there wide-spread public concern?

The inimitable Isabel Waidner is judging the Fiction category of our 2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, and here’s what they are looking for.

Read the full T&Cs on our website, and send us your best stories by 1 July: buff.ly/42Aelbq

Publishers, the submission deadline is now just TWO DAYS away on Friday at 5pm!

If you want a copy of the brand new issue of Wasafiri, which incl a q&a with Alexander Chee and me on the state of the publishing industry, get to it x

The press’s biggest book yet at over 300 pages! Timothy Thornton’s CANDLES AND WATER arrives in bookshops in May—for fans of Melville, Blake, Spicer, Jarman and queer, haunted prose about the outer edges of human experience.

For a review copy, email [email protected]

I spent the fall trying and failing to fish with Percival Everett. My profile of him is in this week's The New Yorker.

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.Fitzcarraldo Editions hires Rachael Allen to launch new poetry list 👏🏼
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Thank you to the judges & prize & to Gordon Burn & his legacy — & to Jimena Gorraez & Marigold Atkey & everyone at DauntBooksPublishing! & to Harriet Moore! Congratulations to all of the long & shortlisted writers!