Emma Bal
@agentbal.bsky.social
Literary Agent at Madeleine Milburn Agency, representing authors globally https://www.madeleinemilburn.co.uk/agents/emma-bal/ https://www.madeleinemilburn.co.uk/book-categories/non-fiction/
🎶📚 FREE EVENT @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 🎶📚 Join me & @elliechan.bsky.social for 'Music, life-writing & how to write about what you can’t hear.' 📅 15 Oct | 🕔 5–6pm | 📍 Goldsmiths (Richard Hoggart Building) More info 👉 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id... @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social
Very excited to share my book Catastrophe Foretold will be published by @vikingbooks.bsky.social (UK) and Union Square (US)!! My book traces warnings before ten major disasters of the past century, and why so many went unheeded. Huge thanks to @mmagency.bsky.social & amazing @agentbal.bsky.social
Madeleine Milburn Agency @mmagency.bsky.social · 10mo agoSo thrilled to announce CATASTROPHE FORETOLD by @nikki-ikani.bsky.social a genre-opening book about catastrophes from a world-leading expert in crisis warnings. It will be published in Spring 2028 by @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social and Union Square in the US. www.thebookseller.com/rights/vikin...
Thanks to everyone who joined our sold-out book launch at The Frontline Club! Ex-BBC @jmacrodgers.bsky.social Ex-CNN @arwadamon.bsky.social & so many others who joined us to discuss the new censorship, rising authoritarianism & the horrors in Gaza. It was an intensive, inspiring urgent conversation
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Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 11mo agoSo grateful to @mmagency.bsky.social, esp. @agentbal.bsky.social who helped me figure out this book (and how to not write like an academic!), and to @christofi.bsky.social at @torvabooks.bsky.social and @sarahhaugen.bsky.social at @harperbooks.bsky.social who are excellent editors. I got so lucky. 🥰
My upcoming trade book, based on the dissertation (and much more), will be out next month & is available to pre-order here: footnotepress.com/books/the-ne... @agentbal.bsky.social @bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social
The New Censorship
As we find ourselves in a time of democratic decay all over the world, with relentless attempts to undermine truth and facts and unprecedented technological tools to spread disinformation and incit…
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My paperback out 1 May. Heartfelt & compassionate walks through rural Britain and its hidden history of empire.
Can't make #DeptfordLitFest in person? There are lots of ways you can take part from home – from online writing prompts and exercises you can do in your own time, to reading new work by Festival writers and watching our events streamed online. Find out more - www.spreadtheword.org.uk/deptford-lit...
At @orionbooks.bsky.social we're launching the Mo Siewcharran non-fiction prize for unpublished global majority writers who are writing about history, ancestry and culture 📚 An incredible opportunity to win funding or a publishing deal, please submit your work to us!
Really excited to be doing a panel event at the Deptford Lit Fest this year!
London Writers Centre@ldnwriterscentre.bsky.social · 2y agoToday we launch the programme for Deptford Literature Festival 2025! We believe it's our biggest and best ever, but don't just take our word for it. Check out the full programme at www.spreadtheword.org.uk/projects/dep...
Mukahang Limbu has won The Borough Press’ non-fiction open submission competition, worth £10,000, with his memoir, Egg-Fried Rice 👇 www.thebookseller.com/news/mukahan... #BookSky
Mukahang Limbu wins Borough Press' £10k non fiction prize
Mukahang Limbu has won The Borough Press' non-fiction open submission competition, worth £10,000, with his memoir, Egg-Fried Rice.
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In publishing we are still not equal. Did you know, last year, that only 8% of the top 50 business books in the UK were written by women? It's clear that we are still not presenting female authors as the experts, thought leaders and changemakers they are. The result? (1/2)
