Yvvette Edwards
@yvvetteedwards.bsky.social
Writer. Author. A Cupboard Full of Coats. The Mother. RSL Fellow. Booker nommed. Reader of books. Lover of stories. Laughs at own jokes.
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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.
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.
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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.
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.
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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.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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.
Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
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As predicted.
NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
As predicted.
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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...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
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October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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...
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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
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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
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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
➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025
September 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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
➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025
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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?...
Duffy received news of her award earlier this month when Evaristo visited her at home. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/9ZB_AHdm4ts?...
September 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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?...
Duffy received news of her award earlier this month when Evaristo visited her at home. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/9ZB_AHdm4ts?...
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This is why they’re deleting studies
September 16, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is why they’re deleting studies
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'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...
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
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
'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...
Bernardine Evaristo awards the first Pioneer prize for British female writers over 60 to Maureen Duffy 🎉
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
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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...
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
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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...
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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...
August 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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...
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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.
So we did a kimono shoot for her bday. Look at her radiant smile y’all.
September 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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.
So we did a kimono shoot for her bday. Look at her radiant smile y’all.
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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.
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.
September 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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.
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.
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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.
September 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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.
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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.
Nervous, excited, ready to share my heart. I hope you enjoy meeting Jihoon, Yunah & Yohan.
September 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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.
Nervous, excited, ready to share my heart. I hope you enjoy meeting Jihoon, Yunah & Yohan.
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A new award recognising gambling-themed books with a prize of £7,000 is set to be launched in January next year 👇 #BookSky
New £7,000 award launched for gambling-themed books
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September 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
A new award recognising gambling-themed books with a prize of £7,000 is set to be launched in January next year 👇 #BookSky
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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.
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.
www.forbes.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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.
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Open Window, Collioure (1905) by Henri Matisse.
Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas.
June 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Open Window, Collioure (1905) by Henri Matisse.
Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas.
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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
Tiny bookshop painted to look like bookshelves turns heads in German town
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June 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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
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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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June 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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.
buff.ly/P1IlohD
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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...
June 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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...
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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.
Easy money, no risk.
Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime.
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.
June 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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.
Easy money, no risk.
Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime.
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.
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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...
www.joanne-harris.co.uk/vianne-readi...
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VIANNE – Reading Group Guide | Joanne Harris
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June 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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...
www.joanne-harris.co.uk/vianne-readi...
www.joanne-harris.co.uk/vianne-readi...