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Ignite: Six Week Course

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Poetry: Six Week Course

Starts 30 Jul 2020

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You’ll know by now that it’s our tenth birthda

You’ll know by now that it’s our tenth birthday this summer and that we’ve had a bit of a revamp to celebrate
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We thought it was time we reintroduce ourselves, our values and our goals: just to make sure they still fit in with you. We’ll be sharing some of the most important parts of For Books’ Sake over the next few weeks so let us know what you think! Have you gained confidence from any of our events or workshops?
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Next up is C O N F I D E N C E . Above all else we work to support womxn and non binary writers to share their writing, and be supported whilst doing so.
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Don’t forget our celebrations end with our #FBSBigBirthdayBash in August which you can still get raffle tickets for to celebrate (link in bio).

It’s that time again, making Mondays that bit mo

It’s that time again, making Mondays that bit more bearable with our #MondayMiniReview
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We have been loving dipping in and out of this collection of essays, short stories, poetry and memoir over the last couple of weeks. They are not apologetic, but celebratory of lives lived in tower blocks, in sharing sugar and leftovers with the neighbours, in camping holidays at home: and we bloody love ‘em! Edited by @kitdewaal and published by @unbounders last year from a long list of writers, these tales of a youth spent playing out in working class Britain honestly gave us all the nostalgic feels. It’s so vital we tell, publish and read these stories of cultural expression. Writers come from all backgrounds, we just tend to only hear from one.
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If you have read something great lately and want to share, DM us a pic and your review to be our next Monday Mini Review! 📖
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#bookstagram #mondayminireview #booklover #igreads #feministbooks #bookreview #booksofinstagram #bibliophile #amreading #diversityinpublishing

You’ll know by now that it’s our tenth birthda

You’ll know by now that it’s our tenth birthday this summer and that we’ve had a bit of a revamp to celebrate
💁‍♀️
We thought it was time we reintroduce ourselves, our values and our goals: just to make sure they still fit in with you. We’ll be sharing some of the most important parts of For Books’ Sake over the next few weeks so let us know what you think!
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First up is CRAFT. Above all else we work to support womxn and non binary writers to practise their writing craft, and keep at it.
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Don’t forget our celebrations end with our #FBSBigBirthdayBash in August which you can still get raffle tickets for to celebrate (link in bio).

Current lockdown reading: Skint Estate by Cash Car

Current lockdown reading: Skint Estate by Cash Carraway.
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I’m a scrounger, a liar, a hypocrite, a stain on society with no basic morals – or so they say. After all, what else do you call a working-class single mum in temporary accommodation?
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Skint Estate is the darkly funny debut memoir from Cash Carraway, a scream against austerity that rises full of rage in a landscape of sink estates, police cells, refuges and peepshows.
A voice that must be heard.
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#skintestate #cashcarraway #workingclasswriters #fbs #forbookssake #books #reading #womenwriters #read #bibliophile #igreads #bookstagram #instabook #tbr

This summer For Books’ Sake turns TEN! 🎂 . Wi

This summer For Books’ Sake turns TEN! 🎂
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With zero external funding, we’ve made it an entire decade, championing womxn and non-binary writers and building this incredible community 💜
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Celebrate with us by buying a raffle ticket or five and be in with a chance of winning some incredible prizes from a selection of our all time favourite members of the lit community! 🎟🎟🎟
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Link in bio for prize details and how to get your tickets 🥳
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#forbookssake #writelikeagrrrl #bookstagram #thatswhatshesaid #booklover #bookgram #writersofinstagram #writersofig #poetsofinstagram #poetryofinstagram #poetrylovers #supportwomenwriters #happybirthday #cakesofinstagram #FBSBigBirthdayBash

‘Easily the best debut I’ve read this year, Ts

‘Easily the best debut I’ve read this year, Tshuma’s novel is both hilarious and horrifying, filled with compassion, anger and despair. [Her] unreliable narrator [is] of the kind that deserves to be remembered up there with Humbert Humbert’ Kim Evans, Culturefly
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Bukhosi has gone missing.

His father, Abed, and his mother, Agnes, cling to the hope that he has run away, rather than been murdered by government thugs. Only the lodger seems to have any idea…

Zamani has lived in the spare room for years now. Quiet, polite, well-read and well-heeled, he’s almost part of the family – but almost isn’t quite good enough for Zamani. Cajoling, coaxing and coercing Abed and Agnes into revealing their sometimes tender, often brutal life stories, Zamani aims to steep himself in borrowed family history, so that he can fully inherit and inhabit its uncertain future.
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If you have read something great lately and want to share, DM us a pic and your review to be our next Monday Mini Review! 📖
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#houseofstone #novuyorosatshuma #fbs #forbookssake #books #reading #womenwriters #read #bibliophile #igreads #bookstagram #instabook #tbr #women #writingbywomen #MondayMiniReview

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