SI Leeds Literary Prize
SI Leeds Literary Prize is a biennial national award for unpublished fiction by UK based Black and Asian women writers. 2024 winner: Maeve Clarke. Returning 2026.
https://www.sileedsliteraryprize.com/
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A live literature organisation getting underrepresented voices heard, reaching diverse audiences and finding exciting ways to present writers. https://linktr.ee/speakingvolumes?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=b591d9c3-0f16-46cd-a964-600542abf00d
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Book distributors for US & UK indie publishers including fiction, art, graphic novels, and everything in-between! Impudently independent since 1984 & employee-owned since 2022. 📚 https://linktr.ee/turnaround_books?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAab4W9C8mGvdr0Z
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#WorkingClass #PunGeordie represented by Kerry-Ann Bentley Historian in The John Blanke Project: https://www.johnblanke.com/seema-mcardle.html #ShowRacismTheRedCard Ambassador/Educator Ex-Primary Teacher (17yrs)
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Neurodivergent (AuDHD). Learner. Dreamer. Award-winning children's author. Musings on books, writing, creativity and ND life. Agent: Lydia Silver
@thegoodagencyuk.bsky.social
TGLA is a social enterprise literary agency focused on representing writers of colour, disability, working class, LGBTQ+. www.thegoodliteraryagency.org
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Debut adult novel “Northern Boy” came out June 2024 (ABBA, Bollywood, cobbles) - rep Robert Caskie | working on debut children’s MG novel - rep Lucy Irvine @pfd | child of the 70s/80s
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We're here to provide affordable, accessible, transformative development opportunities to people of colour who want to write for children or teenagers. www.megaphonewrite.com for more about our mentoring. Arts Council National Lottery funded.
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Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy.
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A fabulous festival of books, writers, words and ideas! In-person, online and in the community year round, and also on X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, YouTube and Spotify.
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✨Writers' Cabin writer's retreat with sauna: Top 7 Retreat, The Sunday Times ✍️ Author Coach @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social 💫 Book PR for independent presses 📸 http://instagram.com/_writewithin www.writewithin.wales
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Fiercely independent publisher specialising in the Middle East (Saqi), global fiction (Telegram) and progressive non-fiction (Westbourne Press) www.saqibooks.com
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Travelling salon and writing community - connecting writers across Europe and beyond. Posts by @royakhatiblou.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/europeanwriterssalon
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Director at @thelitconsultancy, founder #BookJobTransparency & @foundationswift. All things creativity, inclusive culture, literature, leadership and wellbeing.
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🦊Indie bookseller with an online shop📚Lots of signed books & special editions 🦊 Sale sections all year round with book bargains📚Gift packages, book subscriptions & E-gift cards available🦊Bookish gifts📚 FoxLaneBooks.co.uk 🦊
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Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social. 🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
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London's Independent Bookshop of 2024. Fiction, London Books, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Travel, Classics, Children's Books, Cards, Totes, and Short Story Prize. https://linktr.ee/bricklanebookshop
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The IPG is the UK's largest association of independent publishers, supporting 600+ members with events, resources, training and much more. https://linktr.ee/IndependentPublishersGuild
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Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨ sevenstories.com
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Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
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We publish a broad and vibrant range of books for audiences of all ages.
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Dynamic digital publisher of bestselling commercial fiction. We accept both unagented and agented submissions, which are always open and fully inclusive. linktr.ee/bookouture
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Award-winning publisher of bestselling books; lover of em dashes — less keen on semicolons www.joffebooks.com
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We're a global publishing platform of HarperCollins, bringing you books from all directions. Get on board!
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Publisher of award-winning books that change and broaden perspectives 📚 An imprint of Boundless Publishing Group - home to @unboundsocials.bsky.social and @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social
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Ideas that matter, storytelling that lasts. Award-winning fiction and nonfiction. https://www.penguin.com/penguin-press-overview/
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Independent publisher. South East London. Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social 🖤🌈https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/bookshop
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a podcast about Japanese fiction + some of its best works | posting updates on new Japanese fiction | apologies for the typos | blocking new follows that look like bots | DON’T buy or read AI translations | all stories are political
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Independent publisher of non-fiction and novels #MDANT ortacpress.com/shop
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All the best book news and general chit chat from the Hodder Fiction Editorial Team 🖍️
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The National Centre for Writing is a place of discovery, exchange, ideas and learning for writers, translators, readers and everyone who loves words.
@rokwon.bsky.social
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • ✍🏻 NYT, New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Guardian 🌈 she/her www.ro-kwon.com/exhibit
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Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. celesteng.com
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National 📙 Award-winning Historian • 10 NYT Bestsellers such as STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING and HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST • FAMU alum 🐍 • MacArthur Fellow. 🦁🌱 ibramxkendi.com
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Your friendly neighbourhood bookshop on Oxford Road, Manchester 📚 Bookchat, events and silly things. Bleets (?!) by @rednewsom.bsky.social https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/blackwells-manchester-11315868456
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Writer,teacher, model,singer,creative writing facilitator.2 poetry books published,dycp grant Arts Council 2 write memoir-my Ovcancer. On prestigious writing mentorship programme New Writing North. Seeking lit representation Doing NCJT Diploma journalism
@manchesterreview.bsky.social
The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing. https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
@maisiechanwrites.bsky.social
🏆 Winner of the @JHALAKPRIZE & @BRADFORDBOASE for Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths 🐯 Tiger Warrior author 🔎 Very Merry Murder Club author Screenwriter @bbcwritersroom Scottish Voices. Lit Rep: @chloeseager https://linktr.ee/MaisieChanWrites
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England's leading creative writing charity for young people empowering young writers with the skills and confidence to tell their own stories. firststory.org.uk
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Best Microfiction 2020, Best of Boston Literary Magazine, America's Emerging Literary Fiction Writers. MFA at SNHU. Former Nonfiction Editor at Stymie Mag. She/her/hers. karinguyen.wordpress.com.
@commapress.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements. Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
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Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction. Visit our website https://saraband.net/
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a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*)
@leoneross.bsky.social
Author. Writing coach. Latest: THIS ONE SKY DAY/POPISHO. Pointillist. Joyfully maximalist. Jamaican/British 🇯🇲. Black, FYI. Goldsmiths, Edge Hill, Ondjaate & Women’s Prize noms. Won Manchester Prize for Fiction. Rep: Nicola Chang, DHA.
@foxandinkbooks.bsky.social
Northern indie publisher | Winner of the IPG Nick Robinson Newcomer Award 2019 | Publishing the very best books in all genres | Home to NYALlitFest