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Tom Vowler

@tomvowler.bsky.social

Word-botherer. Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize www.tomvowler.co.uk Free 🇵🇸

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The Lonely Crowd@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our #shortstoryofthemonth for July is by the brilliant @tomvowler.bsky.social. Don’t miss ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’: thelonelycrowd.org/2026/07/12/s...

Short Story of the Month, July: ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ by Tom Vowler

Letter from Dr Albert Hofmann to Ernst Jünger Bottmingen, Switzerland – 16th September 1943   My dear Herr Jünger, I recently read your novel Heliopolis and as ever your writing goes be…

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail, lawyer says

Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail, lawyer says

Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial * Middle East crisis live – latest updates One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors is almost unrecognisable because of severe injuries inflicted in Israeli detention, his lawyer said, and faces “tangible danger to his life” after being held for 18 months without charge or trial. Hussam Abu Safiya met his lawyer on 2 July, after a transfer to Israel’s notorious underground Rakefet prison in late June. He had difficulty breathing and speaking continuously, was so weak he struggled to sit upright, and repeatedly seemed on the verge of losing consciousness, said his lawyer, Nasser Odeh. Continue reading...

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BDS movement@bdsmovement.bsky.social · last yr.

"No arms shipments should be allowed to Israel. Full stop." Speaking before the UN, Saleh Hijazi, from the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), applauded global civil society efforts for a military embargo on Israel — and pressured states to meet their legal obligations by imposing one.

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · last yr.

WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.

Amnesty International UK@amnestyuk.bsky.social · last yr.

In a movement that swept the world, communities mobilised and protested against apartheid, including people in Britain. We’re seeing the same resistance rise across cities in the UK today. Apartheid is, was and will always be a crime against humanity.

Image shows protesters walking the streets of London holding a banner reading "No British Arms for South Africa", text below reads "we need to carry the momentum of the South African anti-apartheid movement to Palestinians and other communities still living under apartheid today"
Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · last yr.

“I did not yet know the difference between English and Arabic, or how some words might become—borders, weapons, traps.” Sarah Aziza on what it means to be a Palestinian writer today.

Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today

Q: What is it like to be a Palestinian writer at this time? A: Once, I had no name. I rose each day as if it were the first morning on earth. I moved sturdy and permeable, translucent with a wonder…

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Out-Spoken Press@outspokenpress.bsky.social · last yr.

‘The Gaza Strip…is a periphery filled with a people refusing the margins, and defying the colonial delusion that they can be rendered peripheral, disposable collateral.’ Nour Joudah www.academia.edu/128883092/Gaza_Indigenous_Urbanism_Amid_Elimination

Gaza: Indigenous Urbanism Amid Elimination

The structure of the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is a model that will be duplicated across Indigenous urban centers in Palestine. In navigating my own grief, I reexamine how Gaza ...

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Sophia Argyris@sophiaargyris.bsky.social · last yr.

If you ever ask yourself can poetry help people, or help the world, here is your chance to make some difference by buying a book of poems written in Gaza during genocide. All profits go directly to the poet and her family. Order from @outspokenpress.bsky.social

Out-Spoken Press@outspokenpress.bsky.social · last yr.

🟢 NEW PAMPHLET 🟢 Haia Mohammed, The Age of Olive Trees Pre-order now / All proceeds to author www.outspokenldn.com/shop/haia In 2023, Joelle Taylor read the work of Haia, a young poet in Gaza, at the fundraiser we did. We stayed in contact (1/3)

Cover of The Age of Olive Trees by Haia Mohammed Off-white background with title text in serif font, green and black block-print style outline of olive leaves
European Writers Salon@saloneurope.bsky.social · last yr.

Exciting collaboration between two of our favourite bookstores @desperatelit.bsky.social and @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/rights/cheer...

Cheerio Publishing, Desperate Literature and Brick Lane Bookshop collaborate on new anthology

Independent publishing imprint and production company Cheerio Publishing has announced the upcoming publication of 22 Fictions: New Writing from Desperate Literature and Brick Lane Bookshop.

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