Laura Surynt

books/light/time
born in aotearoa nz/living in oxford

[The Spinoff @TheSpinoffTV]

An important announcement about the future of The Spinoff from our CEO, our editor and our founder. https://t.co/jvKRIwrLzq

[Brick Lane Bookshop (has left, on bluesky) @BrickLaneBooks]

We are delighted to share the Longlist and reveal the twelve fantastic stories that will be published in our 2024 Short Story Prize Anthology.

A huge thank you to all the writers who submitted a story this year and to all the readers who have helped us select the final twelve.

[Laura Surynt @laurasurynt]

@picturehouses @corinaromonti @darkmattermktg_ @PenguinUKBooks Giovanni’s Room!!

[Team Picturehouse @picturehouses]

✨📚 To celebrate 100 years of literary legend James Baldwin, we're giving away two bundles containing his entire back list!

To win, follow @picturehouses, @darkmattermktg_ & @PenguinUKBooks, RT this, and tell us your favourite James Baldwin book in the replies below! 👇

[Literary Hub @lithub]

“I kept receiving the same feedback: that the novel was good, but it was such a shame that I had written it in a way that was so specific to New Zealand.” @rebeccakreilly on the dominance of American culture in publishing.https://t.co/uSYdgRdy3B

[Laura Surynt @laurasurynt]

@BiggusMilk jb's soul food or persepolis in peckham + peckham carboot is the best one. hyde park is overrated.

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

Why do Palestinians have little to no international support?

Noam Chomsky explains.

[Laura Surynt @laurasurynt]

NO I DO NOT WANT TO TEACH A BUNCH OF TEENAGERS HAMLET WHEN THEY WOULD RATHER BE DOING ANYTHING ELSE. hamlet nerds only plz

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 | BREAKING: Rishi Sunak scraps A Levels

'Advanced British Standard' will see all pupils study Maths and English to 18 instead

[Taylor Trudon @taylortrudon]

yeah i think about the roman empire

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

@novaramedia Personally, I think what a politician does with power when they have it is more important than what's going on inside their head. What they do to us is more significant than how they feel about it!

[Matt Erspamer @erspamer_matt]

gay kids taking a pic with their English teacher on the last day of school

[garçon @boymolish]

Beware the tabi swiper

[Laura Surynt @laurasurynt]

hogwarts express crossing the picket line on strike day

[Variety @Variety]

Hundreds of #HarryPotter fans are waiting at Kings Cross station in London for the annual Back to Hogwarts Day. The Hogwarts Express to Hogsmeade is currently showing on the departures board.

[Laura Surynt @laurasurynt]

omg can’t wait to see what the @FitzcarraldoEds cover looks like!!

[Farrar,Straus&Giroux @fsgbooks]

COVER REVEAL 📣 Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. Passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are her ALPHABETICAL DIARIES. Out 2/6/24. https://t.co/RIPsGyE12l

Cover designed by @OKAY_NA

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

need to know more about this bird woman who's spinning wool and drinking wine. what's her story. is she single

[Laura Surynt @laurasurynt]

24 november get fucking all u literary london gals here we goooo

[Laura Surynt @laurasurynt]

so u tellin me that a.s byatt, jean rhys, and ali smith were all born on the 24th of august?

[Laura Surynt @laurasurynt]

@TheWhitePube the governesses by anne serre — sexy n weird n short!

[Sylvia Plath's Food Diary @whatsylviaate]

It would be nice, living by the sea with piles of little kids and pigs and chickens, wearing what my grandmother called wash dresses, and sitting about in some kitchen with bright linoleum and fat arms, drinking pots of coffee. 1963