👁️ WINTER SALE 👁️ 20% off Books till till midnight UK Sunday >> Outspokenldn.com/shop

Welcome meeting for Gaza NextGen language project yesterday All respect & gratitude to Programme Director Amani, co-admin Aliya and 🙏 to all the participating students & tutors ❤️‍🔥

We’re excited to let you know about the new HYPERFOCUS thematically focused four-week online poetry courses launching January 2026. Over four months, eight talented tutors will draw on four concentrated themes - Grief, Parents, Eros & Resistance. outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus

Delighted to be a tutor for this exciting new course from @outspokenpress.bsky.social

Out-Spoken Press@outspokenpress.bsky.social · 8mo ago

January - Grief with @no1emily.bsky.social & @pascalepetit.bsky.social February - Parents with @carolinebirduk.bsky.social & Jack Underwood March: Eros with @kimaddonizio.bsky.social & Oluwaseun Olayiwola April: Resistance with Joelle Taylor & @aanaxagorou.bsky.social

We’re excited to let you know about the new HYPERFOCUS thematically focused four-week online poetry courses launching January 2026. Over four months, eight talented tutors will draw on four concentrated themes - Grief, Parents, Eros & Resistance. outspokenldn.com/hyperfocus

🇯🇲🙌🏾 Thank you to all who joined us online last night to raise funds for Jamaica, beautiful gathering of poetry and music and community and connection, loved it, love you, @outspokenpress.bsky.social here’s to more of this good stuff soon! BIGlove Xx

Salena Godden@salenagodden.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What are you up to this evening? If you are staying home then sign up for this online gig all for a great cause, and the line up organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social is epic: POETS READ FOR HURRICANE RELIEF FUNDRAISER. Please share and donate if you can! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

You can still DONATE to help those in Jamaica affected by Hurricane Melissa’s devastation & WATCH the recording of last night With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

Delighted to share the cover and publisher blurb for my debut poetry collection – out Feb 12th but available for pre-order from @outspokenpress.bsky.social www.outspokenldn.com/shop/rabbits

excuse the typo, here's that link again, thanks for your solidarity and help xx www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

With the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, we’re hosting an online event to raise funds to help those affected Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

We’re delighted to share with you the cover for LAMPING WILD RABBITS, the debut collection by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social forthcoming 12 February 2026. PRE-ORDERS are up now / outspokenldn.com/rabbits

The Scotsman's Poem of the Week 'Scene 4. Lisa Simpson Interrogates the Untranslatability of the Joke' by Juana Adcock.

On Sunday, the Forward Prize winners will be revealed! In the run-up to the announcement, we’re exploring some of the books nominated in the Best Collection category: first up, Juana Adcock on how she wrote I SUGAR THE BONES: lrb.me/098c4c @forwardprizes.bsky.social @outspokenpress.bsky.social

Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians in occupied West Bank Raids, one injured by gunfire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-four-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-raids-one

Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians in occupied West Bank Raids, one injured by gunfire

<article data-history-node-id="430306" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-four-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-raids-one" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-four-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-raids-one" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians in occupied West Bank Raids, one injured by gunfire</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">Israeli forces carried out multiple raids across the occupied West Bank&nbsp;on Friday dawn, arresting four Palestinian youths in separate incidents in Nablus and Tulkarm.</p> <p>In Nablus, soldiers infiltrated al-Makhfiyya neighbourhood, followed by the entry of military vehicles. They raided a home and fired live bullets inside, injuring Ehab Abu Rayala in the leg before arresting him. A second young man was also detained during the operation, according to the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa).</p> <p>Meanwhile, in the town of Anabta, east of Tulkarm, Israeli forces arrested Ahmad Saif Fuqaha and Fares Ayman Najjar after storming their homes.</p> <p>These arrests come amid ongoing Israeli military operations and heightened tensions across the occupied West Bank.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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The genocide is not over. Ceasefire is not liberation. Keep giving. chuffed.org/project/help... “Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”

🌟 Huge congratulations to Fady Joudah, recipient of the 2025 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awarded by the Academy of American Poets, for the most outstanding poetry published in the United States in the previous year for [...]

Submissions are still open for the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! Get your manuscript in by Wednesday October 15th!

Out-Spoken Press@outspokenpress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

👀 3 DAYS LEFT! Deadline for entries: end of this Wednesday 15 October 👀 $2000 US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social UK publication with Out-Spoken Press Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com

‘An alarmingly accomplished debut. A long way now from traditional elegy […] off-kilter and riveting: one dare not look away.’ —Fiona Benson ✨ It's publication week for Madeleine Kruhly's To my father, now dead in room 318 ✨ Out on Thurs > outspokenldn.com/shop/room318

👀 3 DAYS LEFT! Deadline for entries: end of this Wednesday 15 October 👀 $2000 US publication with @noemipress.bsky.social UK publication with Out-Spoken Press Full info & entries >> noemipress.submittable.com

Out-Spoken Press@outspokenpress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Are you a writer of Arab heritage with a poetry MS? Check out this opportunity open to writers in English located anywhere - win $2000, US & UK publication Deadline: 15 Oct Send your MS, share widely >> noemipress.submittable.com

Big news. Big. Huge. 🌝 Delighted that Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero is shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2025 🙏 to the judging panel & congratulations to all shortlisted poets. We hope this recognition can bring her work to more UK readers 🙏

HUGE congratulations to Natalie Shapero on the shortlisting of STAY DEAD for this year’s @tseliotprize.bsky.social !!! 🏜️📺💙

T. S. Eliot Prize@tseliotprize.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist! Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone." Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist! Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone." Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

Review of our September title, STAY DEAD by Natalie Shapero, in LARB “Shapero’s mordant humor and intellectual agility throw a challenge to the reader: In contemporary life, are we dead or alive? Could we be both, or in between?” >> lareviewofbooks.org/article/coug...

Are you a writer of Arab heritage with a poetry MS? Check out this opportunity open to writers in English located anywhere - win $2000, US & UK publication Deadline: 15 Oct Send your MS, share widely >> noemipress.submittable.com

Last call for our next course running Mondays 7-9pm, 6 Oct - 1 Dec Tutors: Ella Frears, Jack Underwood, Anthony Anaxagorou Starting on Monday - don’t miss out! outspokenldn.com/academy-plus

DEADLINE EXTENDED If you’re a poet of Arab heritage, writing in English anywhere in the world, with a poetry manuscript - you now have until 15 October to enter the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize! > $2000 > US publication with Noemi Press > UK publication with Out-Spoken Press noemipress.submittable.com

Haia Mohammed has arrived safely to take up her scholarship place at Goldsmiths University. A massive thank you to everyone who emailed their MP's regarding waiving the biometrics for the Gaza 40. They are all survivors of genocide. Love to the extraordinary heart, strength and resilience of Haia.

💐 Today we are TEN 💐 With huge gratitude to every poet we have published and worked with, the whole Out-Spoken team, and every one of you who’ve read or recommended an Out-Spoken Press title or joined us for one of our workshops or events. THANK YOU 🙏