Nikesh Shukla
@nikeshshukla.bsky.social
Author. Wrote a Spider-Man comic. He wears a mask just to cover the raw flesh. A rather ugly brother with flows that’s gorgeous.
📢 Still time to book: ‘The Far Right Has Risen’ at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Aug 22nd. Featuring @vjmalletft.bsky.social (author of ‘Far-Right France’), @nikeshshukla.bsky.social, @trillingual.bsky.social w/@talatyaqoob.bsky.social chairing. Tickets here ➡️ tinyurl.com/2xnem774
Issue two of Mad Villain, my comic book (independently published/self-funded) with Camille Aubry is in! www.nikesh-shukla.com/store/p/mad-...
We are going on tour with The Good Immigrant 10 this Autumn. Dates and lineups for London, Manchester and Bristol here www.fane.co.uk/nikesh-shukla
The Good Immigrant with Nikesh Shukla Tickets & Tour Dates - Fane
To mark the book's 10th anniversary, editor Nikesh Shukla chairs a live panel bringing together original contributors to The Good Immigrant, to reflect on what's changed in Britain in the decade since...
fane.co.uk
Trying to get all these pamphlets and comics shifted so we can do issue 2. Link to my pamphlet about hope and rage, and my comic about an antifa dad here www.nikesh-shukla.com/store FUCKREFORM gets you 20% discount at checkout or FREEPP gets you free p&p. Whatever you need.
The Good Immigrant is ten years old this year @canongatebooks has selected it for their iconic The Canons series. We’ll be announcing live dates shortly. I look forward to meeting readers old and new this Autumn to talk about rising fascism, rising racism and where we’ve come in the last ten years?
I released a comic called Mad Villain about a guy who has a midlife crisis and joins antifa. Tangible ways to combat fascists.Releasing independently is hard so any support, buying it, promoting it, shouting about it, reading it, would make all this worth it. www.nikesh-shukla.com/store
Review! Mad Villain #1 – Nikesh Shukla @nikeshshukla.bsky.social and Camille Aubry’s Nazi-Punching Comic Combines Super-Heroics, Anti-Fascism and the Casually Dehumanising Realities of Racism. www.brokenfrontier.com/mad-villain-1/
Mad Villain #1 - Nikesh Shukla and Camille Aubry's Nazi-Punching Comic Combines Super-Heroics, Anti-Fascism and the Casually Dehumanising Realities of Racism – Broken Frontier
Written by Nikesh Shukla (editor of The Good Immigrant) and illustrated by Camille Aubry (A Journey to Motherhood) – the latter of whom I first met at an ELCAF portfolio...
brokenfrontier.com
New Bristol Cable column on an Islamophobic march next weekend in Bristol. thebristolcable.org/2026/02/we-n...
We need to oppose Bristol Patriots' fake 'unity march'
The far-right group’s latest demo claims to be about ‘religious unity’ but excludes Muslims. Bristol won’t fall for that
thebristolcable.org
I wrote a pamphlet called Hope Must Be Held In A Clenched Fist. It’s limited to 1000 copies. It’s about hope and fear, the emboldening of the far right and the need for direct action. Buy it here www.nikesh-shukla.com/store
Buy this, if there are any left. As the man says, sometimes the only way to reach across the aisle is with a jab, jab, cross.
Nikesh Shukla@nikeshshukla.bsky.social · 6mo agoI wrote a pamphlet called Hope Must Be Held In A Clenched Fist. It’s limited to 1000 copies. It’s about hope and fear, the emboldening of the far right and the need for direct action. Buy it here www.nikesh-shukla.com/store
Urgent, enraging and wonderful. Get yours while you still can.
Nikesh Shukla@nikeshshukla.bsky.social · 6mo agoI wrote a pamphlet called Hope Must Be Held In A Clenched Fist. It’s limited to 1000 copies. It’s about hope and fear, the emboldening of the far right and the need for direct action. Buy it here www.nikesh-shukla.com/store
I wrote a pamphlet called Hope Must Be Held In A Clenched Fist. It’s limited to 1000 copies. It’s about hope and fear, the emboldening of the far right and the need for direct action. Buy it here www.nikesh-shukla.com/store
Once again tapping my sign: ICE exist in the UK 🚨 They have had arrest powers since 2000. This government - not a hypothetical future one - is working harder than ever before to raid homes and businesses.
Immigration Enforcement raids at the highest level in UK history
Record number of arrests and raids of illegal workers across the UK including 187 raids in Northern Ireland leading to 234 arrests.
gov.uk
Was talking to a friend about how artists have spent years warning about the arrival of the current moment, and how he personally feels like making a shift towards creating work that can comfort and maybe galvanise people right now. No need to sound the alarm anymore - the dystopia is already here.
A typical reaction “but if the government bow to prisoners being held indefinitely without trial, then simply everyone will go on a 71 day hunger striker to the point of death to get what they want”
Wrote some thoughts during last saturday’s counter demonstration against the Bristol Patriots. Read if you want. nikesh.substack.com/p/fragments-...
Deadline is approaching for the Faber Academy writing a novel course I teach. My previous students include Sarah Harman and Nicola Dinan. faberacademy.com/product/writ...
Writing a Novel (Evening) | Creative Writing Courses | Faber Academy
A comprehensive six-month writing course for the serious writer, with access to some of the biggest names in publishing. If you're thinking about a creative writing MA, consider this practical alterna...
faberacademy.com
Deadline is approaching for the Faber Academy writing a novel course I teach. My previous students include Sarah Harman and Nicola Dinan. faberacademy.com/product/writ...
Writing a Novel (Evening) | Creative Writing Courses | Faber Academy
A comprehensive six-month writing course for the serious writer, with access to some of the biggest names in publishing. If you're thinking about a creative writing MA, consider this practical alterna...
faberacademy.com
Seeing as the new year’s honours are out, here’s an oldie but a goodie from me about turning down an MBE www.theguardian.com/books/2021/j...
I turned down an MBE – I don’t want an honour glorifying the British empire | Nikesh Shukla
I was offered an MBE for ‘services to literature’, but I can’t think of anything I want less, writes author Nikesh Shukla
theguardian.com
Priority fundraisers with Palestinians I have personally been in contact with over a few months 🍉🧵
@gralefrit.bsky.social how does one get invited into this unbound whatsapp group?
Right that's way too much posting. Going back to my banal quiet stupid life of worrying privately. Subscribe to my substack: I recommend stuff once a week and post writing tips once a week, and, sigh, there's a writing podcast coming. alas. God I make myself sick: nikesh.substack.com/p/shuks-reco...
Shuks Recommends 23rd May 2025
An occasional list of stuff I'm into. This week's writer's diary is about violence so TW for that.
nikesh.substack.com
I contributed to this on men's fiction. I didn't feel the need to repeat myself, that I don't think there's a crisis in men's fiction. Exciting stuff is getting published and this isn't an overcorrection. I shouted out teachers/librarians/MG&YA writers instead: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘Men need liberation too’: do we need more male novelists?
As a small press launches dedicated to new male fiction, authors including Anne Enright and Nikesh Shukla ask if men are really being pushed out of publishing
theguardian.com
My childhood best friend, a doctor, has set up a project to get kids who need urgent specialist medical care, out of Gaza, to get the help they need. They're crowdfunding here: www.purehope.co.uk
Project Pure Hope
purehope.co.uk
I'm incredibly angry and disappointed by the news that Unbound won't be paying its authors the money it owes us. The Good Immigrant contributors are owed royalties from at least two years ago. I have more to say, and I do not speak on behalf of the contributors, but more to follow, soon.
