Congratulations to the winners: @jeanmcneilwrite@uealdc and Tsitsi
Dangarembga for the International Chair of Creative Writing Africa Year (2021-22)
#UEAIIAwards
This wastrel, ideological, criminal government - and their toadies in the right-wing media - have taken this country to a very bad place. Nothing works anymore - from transport to health to seas full of shit. A general election can't come soon enough. https://t.co/zBzBFhdPhK
Also, we saw one of the few bears (76 in a huge region) thanks to our French team's expertise - particularly Benjamin Begou. That's us below, bear spotting on the slope of a mountain. 🐻
Back @glasgowtramway mapping out A Home for Grief #soundwalk for July. Finding places to stand, sit, walk in the landscape while listening to personal stories of #love#care#loss#bereavement The audio is being beautifully crafted by @Will_Dickie in a tender & sensitive way. ⬇️
Of the 36 academic jobs to be cut @uniofeastanglia 31 are in the Humanities. No discipline will be spared, we are told. We have many strengths in HUM. I run the world-famous Creative Writing programme. This is us in Sept 2022 in Zimbabwe, with new writers. @uealdc changes lives.
Seven years on from Brexit, I have a message for European Londoners: thank you for staying.
As long as I’m your Mayor, I will do my utmost to ensure London continues to be a beacon for progressive ideas and liberal values—a place you feel welcome and proud to call home.
To keep people warm this winter, and every winter that follows, @RishiSunak must commit to urgently funding insulation in this parliament.
2025 is too late for people struggling with bills. #CostOfLivingFilm https://t.co/BsndCj5oFj
Such a magnificent literary program congratulations to @remythequill and @doek_africa, @EfieZethu Zukiswa Wanner and all the sponsors as well to @jeanmcneilwrite and @uealdc for helping to make real the first literary festival dedicated to local and regional writing in Namibia.
The @doek_africa and @uniofeastanglia inaugural Literary Festival begins in Windhoek, Namibia. Thank you to the many sponsors and organisations which have made this a reality. We opened with @EfieZethu and Zukiswa Wanner at @GoetheNamibia last night to a full house. @uealdc
The @doek_africa and @uniofeastanglia inaugural Literary Festival begins in Windhoek, Namibia. Thank you to the many sponsors and organisations which have made this a reality. We opened with @EfieZethu and Zukiswa Wanner at @GoetheNamibia last night to a full house. @uealdc
JEAN McNEIL
‣ Shackleton Medal Judge
A four-month stint in Antarctica helped inspire @jeanmcneilwrite to pen the internationally acclaimed ‘Ice Diaries - An Antarctic Memoir’.
Click the link to read an extract of this luminously perceptive work.
https://t.co/rii5vWpbkW
#7 Miniseries: COVID-19 and global dimensions of inequality – GRIP “Pandemics do not respect national frontiers, but their spread provokes the reinforcement of racial, gender, class and geographic borders.” Rachel Sieder https://t.co/LlN8P7hkBw
The FT, talking about the need for a new social contract, recognising inequalities & basically a socialist agenda. Pinch me https://t.co/mdmCVM4YUT
@Gill_Golding Dear Gill, I am very sorry to receive the news about your mother. My heart and thoughts are with you in this difficult moment that you are going through. Big hug, Diego
@Gill_Golding Dear Gill, I am very sorry to receive the news about your mother. My heart and thoughts are with you in this difficult moment that you are going through. Big hug, Diego