Tom Vowler
@tomvowler.bsky.social
Word-botherer.
Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize 2024.
www.tomvowler.co.uk
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Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize 2024.
www.tomvowler.co.uk
Free 🇵🇸
Stoked that my short story set in the Cevennes, 'Épisodes', was highly commended in this year's Bridport Prize, reaching the top 13 from 5,000 entries.
Looking forward to devouring the other winners in the anthology.
#shortstories #bridportprize
Looking forward to devouring the other winners in the anthology.
#shortstories #bridportprize
October 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Stoked that my short story set in the Cevennes, 'Épisodes', was highly commended in this year's Bridport Prize, reaching the top 13 from 5,000 entries.
Looking forward to devouring the other winners in the anthology.
#shortstories #bridportprize
Looking forward to devouring the other winners in the anthology.
#shortstories #bridportprize
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Palestinians called on the world to #DisruptComplicity in Israel’s apartheid and genocide between 18-21 September. The world answered.
Keep up the momentum: we call for escalating disruptive BDS actions against complicit states, corporations and institutions.
Keep up the momentum: we call for escalating disruptive BDS actions against complicit states, corporations and institutions.
October 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Palestinians called on the world to #DisruptComplicity in Israel’s apartheid and genocide between 18-21 September. The world answered.
Keep up the momentum: we call for escalating disruptive BDS actions against complicit states, corporations and institutions.
Keep up the momentum: we call for escalating disruptive BDS actions against complicit states, corporations and institutions.
A curated list of some of the most scintillating short stories I've read. You're welcome.
Tom Vowler – A Personal Anthology
Tom Vowler is an award-winning author and editor living in the UK. An Arvon tutor with a PhD in creative writing, his work has featured on BBC radio and been translated into multiple languages. Hi…
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September 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A curated list of some of the most scintillating short stories I've read. You're welcome.
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Watched this Louis Theroux documentary the other night; brilliant exposé of colonial settler “state” of Israel & its vicious campaign to steal the land of Palestine.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
May 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Watched this Louis Theroux documentary the other night; brilliant exposé of colonial settler “state” of Israel & its vicious campaign to steal the land of Palestine.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
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Submissions are open until midnight on 30 June:
Call out for writers with lived experience of homelessness or poverty to submit monologues for a new anthology to highlight the complexity of the experiences of homelessness and poverty – struggles, resilience, hope, humour.
Please share :)
mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/
Please share :)
mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/
May 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Submissions are open until midnight on 30 June:
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"No arms shipments should be allowed to Israel. Full stop."
Speaking before the UN, Saleh Hijazi, from the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), applauded global civil society efforts for a military embargo on Israel — and pressured states to meet their legal obligations by imposing one.
Speaking before the UN, Saleh Hijazi, from the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), applauded global civil society efforts for a military embargo on Israel — and pressured states to meet their legal obligations by imposing one.
May 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
"No arms shipments should be allowed to Israel. Full stop."
Speaking before the UN, Saleh Hijazi, from the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), applauded global civil society efforts for a military embargo on Israel — and pressured states to meet their legal obligations by imposing one.
Speaking before the UN, Saleh Hijazi, from the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), applauded global civil society efforts for a military embargo on Israel — and pressured states to meet their legal obligations by imposing one.
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We did this. Proud of everyone who signed
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
We did this. Proud of everyone who signed
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.
May 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.
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In a movement that swept the world, communities mobilised and protested against apartheid, including people in Britain.
We’re seeing the same resistance rise across cities in the UK today.
Apartheid is, was and will always be a crime against humanity.
We’re seeing the same resistance rise across cities in the UK today.
Apartheid is, was and will always be a crime against humanity.
April 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
In a movement that swept the world, communities mobilised and protested against apartheid, including people in Britain.
We’re seeing the same resistance rise across cities in the UK today.
Apartheid is, was and will always be a crime against humanity.
We’re seeing the same resistance rise across cities in the UK today.
Apartheid is, was and will always be a crime against humanity.
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Let's hold the enablers of Israel's genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, apartheid and illegal occupation accountable - in the courts and through popular mobilization.
#MilitaryEmbargo Now!
#MilitaryEmbargo Now!
April 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Let's hold the enablers of Israel's genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, apartheid and illegal occupation accountable - in the courts and through popular mobilization.
#MilitaryEmbargo Now!
#MilitaryEmbargo Now!
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We’re delighted to announce that award-winning novelist Kamila Shamsie will deliver the 2025 #PENLecture in partnership with @newwritingnorth.bsky.social & @nclanews.bsky.social.
Join us at 6pm on 19 June, at Culture Lab, Newcastle University.
Book now ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/events...
Join us at 6pm on 19 June, at Culture Lab, Newcastle University.
Book now ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/events...
Kamila Shamsie to deliver the 2025 PEN Lecture - News & Events - English PEN
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April 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We’re delighted to announce that award-winning novelist Kamila Shamsie will deliver the 2025 #PENLecture in partnership with @newwritingnorth.bsky.social & @nclanews.bsky.social.
Join us at 6pm on 19 June, at Culture Lab, Newcastle University.
Book now ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/events...
Join us at 6pm on 19 June, at Culture Lab, Newcastle University.
Book now ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/events...
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If you do just one thing to push back against Amazon, make it buying your books elsewhere.
“It feels like an intentional kick in the face to local bookstores [...] Independent bookstores generally have to charge full price because those margins are what help them survive. Amazon engages in predatory pricing.”
Amazon's book sale crashes Independent Bookstore Day—and readers are pushing back
Indie bookstores planned a national celebration. Amazon planned a book sale. Now, the battle for readers' attention is on.
www.fastcompany.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
If you do just one thing to push back against Amazon, make it buying your books elsewhere.
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“I did not yet know the difference between English and Arabic, or how some words might become—borders, weapons, traps.” Sarah Aziza on what it means to be a Palestinian writer today.
Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today
Q: What is it like to be a Palestinian writer at this time? A: Once, I had no name. I rose each day as if it were the first morning on earth. I moved sturdy and permeable, translucent with a wonder…
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April 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“I did not yet know the difference between English and Arabic, or how some words might become—borders, weapons, traps.” Sarah Aziza on what it means to be a Palestinian writer today.
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It's back! 🎤 📣🎤
Bookings now open for our next online salon hosted by @kiklodge.bsky.social
🎙 Excellent readings
❓️ Highly serious quiz
🤝 Friendly community
Get in touch quickly if you want to read. Spots v limited.
Theme = Road Signs.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
Bookings now open for our next online salon hosted by @kiklodge.bsky.social
🎙 Excellent readings
❓️ Highly serious quiz
🤝 Friendly community
Get in touch quickly if you want to read. Spots v limited.
Theme = Road Signs.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
April 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
It's back! 🎤 📣🎤
Bookings now open for our next online salon hosted by @kiklodge.bsky.social
🎙 Excellent readings
❓️ Highly serious quiz
🤝 Friendly community
Get in touch quickly if you want to read. Spots v limited.
Theme = Road Signs.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
Bookings now open for our next online salon hosted by @kiklodge.bsky.social
🎙 Excellent readings
❓️ Highly serious quiz
🤝 Friendly community
Get in touch quickly if you want to read. Spots v limited.
Theme = Road Signs.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
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‘On the 354th day of this genocide, we are still nowhere near an “after” that allows for material speculation’
Gaza: Indigenous Urbanism Amid Elimination Nour Joudah
Native American and Indigenous Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2025
DOI: doi.org/10.1353/nai....
Gaza: Indigenous Urbanism Amid Elimination Nour Joudah
Native American and Indigenous Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2025
DOI: doi.org/10.1353/nai....
Project MUSE - Gaza: Indigenous Urbanism Amid Elimination
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April 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
‘On the 354th day of this genocide, we are still nowhere near an “after” that allows for material speculation’
Gaza: Indigenous Urbanism Amid Elimination Nour Joudah
Native American and Indigenous Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2025
DOI: doi.org/10.1353/nai....
Gaza: Indigenous Urbanism Amid Elimination Nour Joudah
Native American and Indigenous Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2025
DOI: doi.org/10.1353/nai....
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‘The Gaza Strip…is a periphery filled with a people refusing the margins, and defying the colonial delusion that they can be rendered peripheral, disposable collateral.’
Nour Joudah
www.academia.edu/128883092/Gaza_Indigenous_Urbanism_Amid_Elimination
Nour Joudah
www.academia.edu/128883092/Gaza_Indigenous_Urbanism_Amid_Elimination
Gaza: Indigenous Urbanism Amid Elimination
The structure of the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is a model that will be duplicated across Indigenous urban centers in Palestine. In navigating my own grief, I reexamine how Gaza ...
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April 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
‘The Gaza Strip…is a periphery filled with a people refusing the margins, and defying the colonial delusion that they can be rendered peripheral, disposable collateral.’
Nour Joudah
www.academia.edu/128883092/Gaza_Indigenous_Urbanism_Amid_Elimination
Nour Joudah
www.academia.edu/128883092/Gaza_Indigenous_Urbanism_Amid_Elimination
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If you ever ask yourself can poetry help people, or help the world, here is your chance to make some difference by buying a book of poems written in Gaza during genocide. All profits go directly to the poet and her family. Order from @outspokenpress.bsky.social
🟢 NEW PAMPHLET 🟢
Haia Mohammed, The Age of Olive Trees
Pre-order now / All proceeds to author
www.outspokenldn.com/shop/haia
In 2023, Joelle Taylor read the work of Haia, a young poet in Gaza, at the fundraiser we did. We stayed in contact
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Haia Mohammed, The Age of Olive Trees
Pre-order now / All proceeds to author
www.outspokenldn.com/shop/haia
In 2023, Joelle Taylor read the work of Haia, a young poet in Gaza, at the fundraiser we did. We stayed in contact
(1/3)
April 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If you ever ask yourself can poetry help people, or help the world, here is your chance to make some difference by buying a book of poems written in Gaza during genocide. All profits go directly to the poet and her family. Order from @outspokenpress.bsky.social
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Only ONE place left for this online Prose poetry workshop with fantastic tutor @julieirigaray.bsky.social
After that, we'll hold a waitlist and maybe re-run if demand so do sign up to write and learn with writers from across Europe.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-introdu...
After that, we'll hold a waitlist and maybe re-run if demand so do sign up to write and learn with writers from across Europe.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-introdu...
April 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Only ONE place left for this online Prose poetry workshop with fantastic tutor @julieirigaray.bsky.social
After that, we'll hold a waitlist and maybe re-run if demand so do sign up to write and learn with writers from across Europe.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-introdu...
After that, we'll hold a waitlist and maybe re-run if demand so do sign up to write and learn with writers from across Europe.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-introdu...
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Exciting collaboration between two of our favourite bookstores @desperatelit.bsky.social
and @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social
www.thebookseller.com/rights/cheer...
and @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social
www.thebookseller.com/rights/cheer...
Cheerio Publishing, Desperate Literature and Brick Lane Bookshop collaborate on new anthology
Independent publishing imprint and production company Cheerio Publishing has announced the upcoming publication of 22 Fictions: New Writing from Desperate Literature and Brick Lane Bookshop.
www.thebookseller.com
April 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Exciting collaboration between two of our favourite bookstores @desperatelit.bsky.social
and @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social
www.thebookseller.com/rights/cheer...
and @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social
www.thebookseller.com/rights/cheer...
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Our bursary places sold out very quickly, so we've added some more for Sat/Sun only.
Take a look! We would love to meet you.
Take a look! We would love to meet you.
Bursary tickets are available for those couldn’t otherwise afford it—no questions asked.
Our last Brussels weekend was such a blast, and this one promises to be as well💛
Our last Brussels weekend was such a blast, and this one promises to be as well💛
April 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Our bursary places sold out very quickly, so we've added some more for Sat/Sun only.
Take a look! We would love to meet you.
Take a look! We would love to meet you.
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Here’s my new flash fiction, A Relief Map of the World’ published by: @fictivedream.bsky.social
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A Relief Map of the World
by Graham Mort Kelly. Her very first day at work, leaning against the coffee machine in a cream coloured suit, her hair in a chignon (I had to look that up), her fingers wrapped around the coffee c…
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April 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Here’s my new flash fiction, A Relief Map of the World’ published by: @fictivedream.bsky.social
fictivedream.com/2025/04/18/a...
fictivedream.com/2025/04/18/a...