Bernardine Evaristo

As Chair of this prize, I couldn't be more delighted that we chose @_cherisemorris_ with her gem of a manuscript, the cosmic matter of black lives! Look out for it when @CassavaRepublic publishes it!

Cassava Republic @CassavaRepublic

🏆MEET THE WINNERS!🏆 🌟 Huge congratulations to @_cherisemorris_, winner of the inaugural Global Black Women’s Non-fiction Manuscript Prize for her stunning manuscript, the cosmic matter of Black lives! https://t.co/395hcY2LoM

You can find the first teacher guide for Girl Woman Other here! Very useful for school teachers and university lecturers. It became an A Level set text in 2022. @FreedomtoTeach #girlwomanother https://t.co/cxhPrzCdg4

Very proud of @kirstycapes who published her third novel, Girls, last May (@orionbooks). She studied for her Creative Writing BA, MA and PhD at @Bruneluni University of London. I was the creative supervisor for her PhD - writing her debut novel, CARELESS (2021), which was https://t.co/jlSbsNzKWv

Currently chairing the Global Black Women's Manuscript Prize - filling in the gaps by finding the next generation of non-fiction writers & original thinkers - for @CassavaRepublic publishers. Here's the shortlist. #cassavarepublic https://t.co/4pVS88CR6P

I'll be teaching novel writing on the Creative Writing MA @Bruneluni University of London next year. It's the only place I teach & we'll be digging deep into craft & deconstructing some great novels. Recent grads include @kirstycapes whose 3rd novel, Girls, was published this

RT @RSLiterature: Last night we celebrated today’s launch of #Murakami’s new book ‘The City and its Uncertain Walls’ at a packed special ev…

Congratulations, Samantha Harvey!

The Booker Prizes @TheBookerPrizes

‘Sometimes you encounter a book and cannot work out how this miraculous event has happened’ We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #BookerPrize2024 is Orbital by Samantha Harvey. 🌌✨ Discover the book: https://t.co/Jx491BCyuj https://t.co/R888OZEPE9

RT @susie_dent: Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Dua Lipa @DUALIPA is a great supporter of writers & literature. Here are my five poetry book choices for her @service95 cultural website. I could have added another 50 but went for some personal faves @rrobinson72 @JTaylorTrash @CalebFemi_ @RuffneckRefugee & Mapping the Future

Happy to announce I've founded a new prize for UK writers - the RSL Scriptorium Awards - which offers my pension-investment cottage on the Kent coast to writers for free for up to a month each. Applications open Spring 2025. A jury will choose the writers & I will have zero https://t.co/xwwfaLBw8n

This Friday, when I'll be announcing a new literary prize @RSLiterature!

@speaking-volumes.bsky.social @Speak_Volumes

THIS FRIDAY come celebrate Mapping the Future: The Complete Works Poets with @arshi_mona Will Harris @KMcCarthyWoolf @NickMakoha @YomiSode @BernardineEvari & @Natteitler! @BloodaxeBooks @RSLiterature @britishlibrary #completeworkspoets 🎟️ https://t.co/LOtWs8DPay https://t.co/EI3a8hxqDl

End of an era! I've now completed my 4-year tenure as President of @rosebruford College of Theatre & Performance & attended the fantastic installation of the leading actor, Ray Fearon, as the new President. I graduated in '82 from the College, and he did in the '90s. Feat in https://t.co/WPK7luZmlU

Love this! Please RT & share privately with people you know. @guardian requesting feedback from black & LGBTQ+ viewers to #MrLoverman @BBCOne @fablepicsuk. Mondays at 9pm but the entire series is available to watch on @BBCiPlayer https://t.co/rq9clBFtgL

Looking forward to introducing this event next week! Where I'll also announce another project live at the venue. @RSLiterature in partnership with Speaking Volumes @Speak_Volumes, who have long produced all kinds of innovative performance, print & production events. (No comments,

Royal Society of Literature @RSLiterature

In 2008 less than 1% of poets of colour were published by major presses. In response, RSL President @BernardineEvari launched The Complete Works, a mentoring scheme that supported 30 poets of colour from 2008 to 2020. Today, that first figure has risen to over 20%. At the end of https://t.co/QZtCUGva7l

Fantastic!

@[email protected] @KitdeWaal

The secret is out! I can finally say how thrilled I am to be Chair of the @WomensPrize for Fiction judges and feel honoured to be reading alongside these brilliant women.

A wonderful review of Mr Loverman, the 8-part drama series brilliantly adapted by Nathaniel Price from my 2013 @PenguinUKBooks novel. Thx! @fablepicsuk @BBCOne @SonyPicturesUK. Starring Lennie James #TheWalkingDead, Sharon D Clarke, @ariyon69 Bakare, Tamara Lawrence, Sharlene

The Guardian @guardian

Mr Loverman review – magnificent TV that will tear your heart open https://t.co/9NFnu4h59o

Hotting up the publicity before the #mrloverman series, adapted by Nathaniel Price drops on @BBC 1 tomorrow at 9pm, but you can watch all eps back to back on @BBCiPlayer from then. I've written an essay in the Guardian about writing the novel @PenguinUKBooks, published 2013; AND https://t.co/PrXJRyKJBp