@moniqueroffey.bsky.social
Writer, FRSL, Professor Contemporary Fiction, ManMet Uni, activist, Costa Prize Book of the Year 2020. The Mermaid of Black Conch. New novel, Passiontide, out in paperback 15 May 2025. moniqueroffey.com
Margret Atwood at The Barbican on Monday night. A living legend. Wise, funny, political. What a body of work. Great evening. #womenwhowrite #legend @barbican.bsky.social
Not the first time Trump trashed a public building. Total cost of January 6: $2.7 billion.
Hey! Comes to Newhaven this Saturday, 2-6 pm. It’s packed with good things and it’s free! #writingcommunity
Cultural healing and culture shift last night at Wembley stadium. #FreePalestine
This woman! #bravery
Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · last yr.The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide. The German state is a disgrace. It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide. It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects
Pleased to announce our inaugural Hey! Festival in collaboration with Doncaster Art Bomb. A Hard Art writer led initiative, where live lit meets activism. #Hey! #activism #wordsmatter
The context for right-wing populist attacks on clean energy? Clean energy is poised to wipe out the power of their corporate and petrostate sponsors.
John Hanger@jrfhanger.bsky.social · last yr.Good morning with good news: Renewables will be world's top electricity source (36%) by 2026 & possibly by 2025! Coal falls to its lowest global share (32%) in 100 years by 2026. Wind & solar skyrocket from 4% in 2015 to 17% in 2025 & 20% in 2026! #energysky www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...
The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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Today’s State of the Climate address to Parliament from @ed-miliband.bsky.social is a welcome step – radical truth-telling is exactly what we need.
‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, online early from our next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...
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I salute these people. Brave people. #Gazagenocide
Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · last yr.BREAKING 🚨 ~40 ARRESTS IN PARLIAMENT SQ. Over 300 police officers have been seen to carry away dozens of people from the foot of statues of Nelson Mandela and Gandhi for allegedly terrorism offences. Those arrested are accused of holding signs in support of Palestine Action
Thrilled to be a finalist! #Caricon
Blake Friedmann Literary Agency@blakefriedmann.bsky.social · last yr.NEWS: PASSIONTIDE by @moniqueroffey.bsky.social nominated for the inaugural CARICON Prize for Caribbean Literature! PASSIONTIDE is out now from @vintagebooks.bsky.social and @aaknopf.bsky.social 📚🏝️ 📚🏝️ Read more: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/passion...
Great evening last night @vaginamuseum.bsky.social with these two great women. Tantra teacher Jan Day and writer Marianne Power. #modernlove
Best news ever!
The Canary@thecanaryuk.bsky.social · last yr.Zarah Sultana QUITS Labour to lead new party with Jeremy Corbyn Predictably, the corporate media are already shit stirring to try and bring Zarah Sultana, Corbyn, and the new party down. Waiting for antisemitism & terrorism smears in 3...2...1... www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
It's called Gaza: Doctors Under Attack And you can watch it here: www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
A forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza
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Join us. I’ll be chatting to legendary tantra teacher Jan Day as well as author Marianne Power @vaginamuseum.bsky.social 8 July #tantra #women #Sexuality
£6.4 k raised in ten days. Be a founder not just a funder. #Hey! Please donate.
@moniqueroffey.bsky.social · last yr.www.gofundme.com/f/hey-festiv... Please share and donate. This is a Hard Art, writer led, initiative. We plan to pilot three pop up micro festivals this year in places festivals do not go. #feteofBritain
Thank you to @moniqueroffey.bsky.social for the wonderful conversation last night at Essex Book Festival. My mind was buzzing afterwards and I’m still thinking! Thanks to the Maldon Library staff who were fabulous hosts as usual 💕 Good luck with the crowd funding the Hey! Festival is going to be👌
Looking forward to chatting to you this evening, Emma at Maldon Library. #Passiontide
Dr Emma K Pey@ekpey.bsky.social · last yr.Preparing to interview @moniqueroffey.bsky.social at Maldon Library for Essex Book Festival tonight (5 June) at 7pm. Thrilled to be chatting about her latest book Passiontide! What would you ask Monique? What are your favourite author interview questions? Join the conversation - link above #booksky
