Are you taking part in the Edinburgh Festivals this year? Want to create a solidarity statement, raise awareness, or make a call to action but unsure how to go about it? We've made a support pack to help! Download here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wmEC...

+ this video was made to go alongside the library's profile: www.youtube.com/shorts/cNkPZ...

Gaza's Phoenix Library Rises

YouTube video by The Palestine Festival of Literature

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More authors booked for events at the British Library are pulling out in solidarity with our striking members #BritishLibraryonStrike www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Stephen King’s son among writers boycotting British Library event in solidarity with striking workers

King’s son, Joe Hill, joins V Castro and Keith Rosson in withdrawing from the Tales of the Weird festival this weekend in support of industrial action

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Voting for the Society of Authors Management Committee elections is NOW OPEN until Wednesday 22 October! 🗳️ Here's some more info on the four amazing candidates Fossil Free Books organisers have decided to collectively endorse 👉

Today @tribunemagazine.bsky.social publishes a vitally important, highly personal and urgently necessary piece by Yara Rodrigues Fowler on the history of the FFB campaigning around literary festivals:

Yara Rodrigues Fowler@yararf.bsky.social · last yr.

I’ve written a long read for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about happened with Baillie Gifford, @fossilfreebooks.org and all the festivals. A lot of fake news circulated at the time so, whatever side you came down on, I’d be grateful if you read and shared it. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/writ...

Please read & share the scholarship story of Gazan poet Haia, ❗️and how you can take one action now to help her and the other scholars trapped in Gaza by UK govt red tape ❗️

Editor's note: Husam ends this piece with a request: "Get me out of here." You can contribute to the campaign - www.gofundme.com/f/aider-les-...

AIDER LES ÉCRIVAINS HUSAM ET YOUSRI A SORTIR DE GAZA, organized by Camille Padet-Allely

Depuis 670 jours, Husam et Yousri, deux écrivains gazaouis vi… Camille Padet-Allely a besoin de votre soutien pour AIDER LES ÉCRIVAINS HUSAM ET YOUSRI A SORTIR DE GAZA

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly@arablit.bsky.social · last yr.

How Do I Leave the Prison of Gaza? "The world is small," they say. But Gaza taught me that the world is too big to be shaken by the small tragedies that happen here. Too big to care about a starving human being who only dreams of crossing a crossing.

Fossil Free Books affirms our solidarity with Palestinian poet Fady Joudah and Palestinian novelist Randa Jarrar who have pulled out of their events at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival due to the programming of two Israeli writers, Anshel Pfeffer and genocide denier Etgar Keret.

Keir Starmer must act to secure the release from prison in Egypt of British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah. #FreeAlaa Time is pressing as his mother, Laila Soueif's health is deteriorating.

English PEN@englishpen.bsky.social · last yr.

We join 20 orgs in a letter to PM Keir Starmer to urgently raise concerns about the ongoing detention of British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, as well as the rapidly deteriorating health of his mother, Laila Soueif. #FreeAlaa Read the letter ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

We stand in solidarity with our trans siblings and are united in our anger at the Supreme Court ruling & EHRC update. Trans, non-binary and intersex people are facing exclusion from basic aspects of public life. Please read this thread that contains recommendations and calls to action.

📢 Every author who left the SoA belongs in their union! 🚪 You and hundreds of other authors have left the Society of Authors over the past year. 🚫 It has consistently worked to alienate you for your divestment actions. 🇵🇸 It has demonised you for demanding union solidarity with Palestine. [1]

🗣️ Every woman writer belongs in their union! 🤦🏻‍♀️ With a gender pay gap between male and female authors of 41.4%, women writers experienced a 21% drop in their income between 2017 and 2020.

📣 Every queer writer belongs in their union!

📢 Every disabled writer belongs in their union! 📈 Disabled people in the UK face a higher cost of living. With author pay at an all-time low, the industry has never felt more excluding. ‼️ From cuts to state support, lack of accommodations and inaccessible events, disabled writers deserve better.

📢 Every poet belongs in their union! 💸 2024 was a record-breaking year for poetry book sales. Despite this giving poets more power in the market, so few make money from sales. 💪 Being a poet today remains precarious, and you deserve a trade union that will better serve you as a worker. [1]

📢 Every illustrator belongs in their union! ✏️ Illustrators across the UK are already losing work to AI. With the government increasingly prioritising the interests of AI companies, important voices of opposition aren’t being heard. [1]

📢 Every translator belongs in their union! 🛑 The Society of Authors recently targeted Meta for its use of pirated books (including works in translation) to train its AI. 🤐 But why does it remain silent when major publishing houses announce their intentions to use AI to translate their books? [1]

📢 Every working class writer belongs in their union! 📚 In a survey by The Bookseller a staggering 78% of working-class authors said their background had hindered their career. [1] www.thebookseller.com/news/survey-...

📢 Every writer of colour belongs in their union! 💸 Research commissioned by ALCS in 2022 shows that pay for writers of colour is 51% lower than for their white counterparts (in real terms). [1] www.alcs.co.uk/news/why-wri...

Every writer against genocide belongs in their union. The Society of Authors does not stand for a free Palestine. Not yet. Amid Israel’s destruction of libraries, bookshops, printing presses and publishing houses in Gaza, the SoA’s lack of solidarity is driving members to leave the union. [1]

Every climate justice writer belongs in their union. The Society of Authors claims to be committed to sustainability. But climate justice is about more than sustainable sources of paper – it’s about power. In calling for individual authors to hold their publishers to account, the SoA is… [1]

📣PSA: translations, authors, illustrators 📣 Have you joined your union, the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Join before weds 30th April to vote in this year's elections. Claim £50 towards membership from @fossilfreebooks.org's mutual aid fund: opencollective.com/fossil-free-...

Fossil Free Books@fossilfreebooks.org · last yr.

The Society of Authors needs to change. But it won’t without you. Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections. Writers, translators & illustrators face huge challenges right now… (1/5)

The Society of Authors needs to change. But it won’t without you. Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections. Writers, translators & illustrators face huge challenges right now… (1/5)

It’s why I’m petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorships – for too long oil and gas companies have had largely unlimited £££ to greenwash their filthy reputations for government and the public . We say no more . petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship

Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...

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Join ussss 💥💥🎉🎉 @fossilfreebooks.org

Fossil Free Books@fossilfreebooks.org · 2y ago

If you're a bookworker (in any capacity) then you're invited to join our Strategy Day for our pro-climate, pro-Palestine movement! 🍉FFB Strategy Day 📚 @fossilfreebooks.org 📅 Sat 18 Jan, 10-4 🌍 online / Edinburgh / London 🖊️registration: linktr.ee/fossilfreebooks Register by 5pm this Wed 15th.

I'll be joining online for this 🙌 having organised alongside incredible writers and humans over the last several months, I'm feeling driven and hopeful about what else we can bring about this year.

Fossil Free Books@fossilfreebooks.org · 2y ago

If you're a bookworker (in any capacity) then you're invited to join our Strategy Day for our pro-climate, pro-Palestine movement! 🍉FFB Strategy Day 📚 @fossilfreebooks.org 📅 Sat 18 Jan, 10-4 🌍 online / Edinburgh / London 🖊️registration: linktr.ee/fossilfreebooks Register by 5pm this Wed 15th.

If you're a bookworker (in any capacity) then you're invited to join our Strategy Day for our pro-climate, pro-Palestine movement! 🍉FFB Strategy Day 📚 @fossilfreebooks.org 📅 Sat 18 Jan, 10-4 🌍 online / Edinburgh / London 🖊️registration: linktr.ee/fossilfreebooks Register by 5pm this Wed 15th.

Books Shelf GIF

Alt: Book shelf GIF feaeturing shelves of books organised by colour in a rainbow effect.

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Hey folks👋🏾, just to say we’re still organising within the books industry and aren’t going anywhere. Help us shape the future of our collective action. Details below for our upcoming Strategy Day with links included!

Yara Rodrigues Fowler@yararf.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy 2025 💖 If your resolution was to get involved w organising, & you do work that is in anyway book related, get yourself to… 🍉FFB Strategy Day 📚 @fossilfreebooks.org 📅 Sat 18 Jan, 10-4 🌍 online / Edinburgh / London 🖊️registration: linktr.ee/fossilfreebooks

Start your new year by organising to create the world as you wish it to be ✨ Join the Fossil Free Books Strategy Day, happening on Saturday 18th January 10am - 4pm GMT in Edinburgh, London and online.

Hello Bluesky, who are we and what do we want? 👋🏽👋🏾👋🏿 Well, let us introduce ourselves. We are a collective of workers across all areas of the books and publishing industry. For over a year, we have been organising in solidarity with Palestine and against fossil fuel finance and investment.