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Thank you @redpeppermagazine for the invitation to write about the work of @fossilfreebooks so far. I believe that the responses to our campaign point toward a limited view of what literature is and can do. I also believe that there are and have always been alternatives - we urgently need to cultivate them.

On a personal note: this is the first group of writers where I've truly felt belonging since my early twenties. I think it's to do with us sharing more than the need to write.

Thank you @yararodriguesfowler @m_tonsy and @guystory12 for eyes on this. Thank you, pals, for all the learning.

Thank you @redpeppermagazine for the invitation to write about the work of @fossilfreebooks so far. I believe that the responses to our campaign point toward a limited view of what literature is and can do. I also believe that there are and have always been alternatives - we urgently need to cultivate them.

On a personal note: this is the first group of writers where I've truly felt belonging since my early twenties. I think it's to do with us sharing more than the need to write.

Thank you @yararodriguesfowler @m_tonsy and @guystory12 for eyes on this. Thank you, pals, for all the learning.

Thank you @redpeppermagazine for the invitation to write about the work of @fossilfreebooks so far. I believe that the responses to our campaign point toward a limited view of what literature is and can do. I also believe that there are and have always been alternatives - we urgently need to cultivate them.

On a personal note: this is the first group of writers where I've truly felt belonging since my early twenties. I think it's to do with us sharing more than the need to write.

Thank you @yararodriguesfowler @m_tonsy and @guystory12 for eyes on this. Thank you, pals, for all the learning.

Thank you @redpeppermagazine for the invitation to write about the work of @fossilfreebooks so far. I believe that the responses to our campaign point toward a limited view of what literature is and can do. I also believe that there are and have always been alternatives - we urgently need to cultivate them.

On a personal note: this is the first group of writers where I've truly felt belonging since my early twenties. I think it's to do with us sharing more than the need to write.

Thank you @yararodriguesfowler @m_tonsy and @guystory12 for eyes on this. Thank you, pals, for all the learning.

Not making this a habit as they've already lost plenty of respect for me. But The Nerves are out in the US and Canada this week.

What a mind-bend to think of those questions wandering around way over there, in someone's head. Those fearsome tendrils and those musings on moose.

Thank you, if you've read them. Thank you.

📢 Imagining new funding futures 📢

Online panel conversation with Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, Sam Gonçalves and Tom Jeffreys.

RESCHEDULED: Tue 14th May, 12.30pm

Current discussions around funding across the publishing industry seem to suffer from a lack of imagination: there is both intense criticism of current situations and, in some cases, a desire to return to a past that – if we’re honest – is not going to come back.

But we are creative people! If anyone can help to imagine equitable and sustainable futures for workers in the books industry, surely it is the writers, translators and illustrators who make up the Society of Authors.

Looking ahead to the 2026 elections in Scotland, this panel discussion will survey today’s funding landscape, imagine some more equitable future possibilities and begin to map out how we might get there.

The conversation will cover:
➡️ Different visions for more equitable and sustainable publishing
➡️ The role of trade unions such as the SoA in making these ideas a reality
➡️ Current problems and how to solve them
➡️ Testing new funding models, such as Universal Basic Income

This event is in conjunction with the Society of Authors in Scotland (SoAiS).

Register via link in @tom_jeffreys bio.

It's #radicalbookfair time! So odd to be watching it all unfold from the distance of parental leave and all the more excited to be popping in to chair one of the panels on Sunday 🎉

Unfortunately we will be one @dalia.aldu short but really grateful and looking forward to having some invaluable input over video.

With @aileenang_ we'll be talking @decolonisingtheoutdoors and how migration shapes our understanding of place and environmental justice. Queer ecologies. Belonging with/to a place. Eco-systems of change! Selfishly a dream conversation tbh.

If you haven't yet been to the fair @assemblyroxy it's on all weekend organised by beauts @lighthousebks who are doing a stellar stellar job 💚

It's #radicalbookfair time! So odd to be watching it all unfold from the distance of parental leave and all the more excited to be popping in to chair one of the panels on Sunday 🎉

Unfortunately we will be one @dalia.aldu short but really grateful and looking forward to having some invaluable input over video.

With @aileenang_ we'll be talking @decolonisingtheoutdoors and how migration shapes our understanding of place and environmental justice. Queer ecologies. Belonging with/to a place. Eco-systems of change! Selfishly a dream conversation tbh.

If you haven't yet been to the fair @assemblyroxy it's on all weekend organised by beauts @lighthousebks who are doing a stellar stellar job 💚

Sunday at the Radical Book Fair!

🗣️ Places That Built Us: Belonging & Environmental Justice Across Borders
🗓️ Sun 9th Nov 2.30-3.30pm
📍 Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh

Through migration, climate, technology and politics, we are all connected. But how do we articulate belonging?

Join @aileenang_ @dalia.aldu and @jessjohannesson as they discuss the interweaving threads of place and people, and how our stories and care are central to forging paths forward for everybody together.

Exploring environmentalism, justice and narrative, they look for common cause among the challenges of our times and explore the role storytelling has in navigating such territory.

Attend the event in person or online via @lighthousebks website

We're inching in on the deadline for voting in the @societyofauthors Management Committee elections and that's my ballot in the post.

I left the SoA after its leadership not only urged members to vote against a resolution to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, but also failed to meaningfully follow through on the sustainability resolution it did pass. I re-joined because only its members can shape our union into a real, functioning one.

My votes go to four candidates who bring a thorough, honest understanding of what a union is and is needed for: Mohammed Tony @m_tonsy Jen Calleja @jencalleja_ Polly Atkin @pollyrowena and Matt Abbott @mattabbottpoet

You don't need to know them in order to recognise their commitment to fair pay for writers and translators, to real freedom of expression, to a literature that is engaged and of the world, to honesty about literature being part of the political landscape in which it's created. It's in their statements and reading them fills me with rare excitement.

With a real union, imagine everything we could do. With these candidates representing us, we could build a real union.

Vote before Oct 22

We're inching in on the deadline for voting in the @societyofauthors Management Committee elections and that's my ballot in the post.

I left the SoA after its leadership not only urged members to vote against a resolution to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, but also failed to meaningfully follow through on the sustainability resolution it did pass. I re-joined because only its members can shape our union into a real, functioning one.

My votes go to four candidates who bring a thorough, honest understanding of what a union is and is needed for: Mohammed Tony @m_tonsy Jen Calleja @jencalleja_ Polly Atkin @pollyrowena and Matt Abbott @mattabbottpoet

You don't need to know them in order to recognise their commitment to fair pay for writers and translators, to real freedom of expression, to a literature that is engaged and of the world, to honesty about literature being part of the political landscape in which it's created. It's in their statements and reading them fills me with rare excitement.

With a real union, imagine everything we could do. With these candidates representing us, we could build a real union.

Vote before Oct 22

We're inching in on the deadline for voting in the @societyofauthors Management Committee elections and that's my ballot in the post.

I left the SoA after its leadership not only urged members to vote against a resolution to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, but also failed to meaningfully follow through on the sustainability resolution it did pass. I re-joined because only its members can shape our union into a real, functioning one.

My votes go to four candidates who bring a thorough, honest understanding of what a union is and is needed for: Mohammed Tony @m_tonsy Jen Calleja @jencalleja_ Polly Atkin @pollyrowena and Matt Abbott @mattabbottpoet

You don't need to know them in order to recognise their commitment to fair pay for writers and translators, to real freedom of expression, to a literature that is engaged and of the world, to honesty about literature being part of the political landscape in which it's created. It's in their statements and reading them fills me with rare excitement.

With a real union, imagine everything we could do. With these candidates representing us, we could build a real union.

Vote before Oct 22

We're inching in on the deadline for voting in the @societyofauthors Management Committee elections and that's my ballot in the post.

I left the SoA after its leadership not only urged members to vote against a resolution to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, but also failed to meaningfully follow through on the sustainability resolution it did pass. I re-joined because only its members can shape our union into a real, functioning one.

My votes go to four candidates who bring a thorough, honest understanding of what a union is and is needed for: Mohammed Tony @m_tonsy Jen Calleja @jencalleja_ Polly Atkin @pollyrowena and Matt Abbott @mattabbottpoet

You don't need to know them in order to recognise their commitment to fair pay for writers and translators, to real freedom of expression, to a literature that is engaged and of the world, to honesty about literature being part of the political landscape in which it's created. It's in their statements and reading them fills me with rare excitement.

With a real union, imagine everything we could do. With these candidates representing us, we could build a real union.

Vote before Oct 22

We're inching in on the deadline for voting in the @societyofauthors Management Committee elections and that's my ballot in the post.

I left the SoA after its leadership not only urged members to vote against a resolution to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, but also failed to meaningfully follow through on the sustainability resolution it did pass. I re-joined because only its members can shape our union into a real, functioning one.

My votes go to four candidates who bring a thorough, honest understanding of what a union is and is needed for: Mohammed Tony @m_tonsy Jen Calleja @jencalleja_ Polly Atkin @pollyrowena and Matt Abbott @mattabbottpoet

You don't need to know them in order to recognise their commitment to fair pay for writers and translators, to real freedom of expression, to a literature that is engaged and of the world, to honesty about literature being part of the political landscape in which it's created. It's in their statements and reading them fills me with rare excitement.

With a real union, imagine everything we could do. With these candidates representing us, we could build a real union.

Vote before Oct 22

We're inching in on the deadline for voting in the @societyofauthors Management Committee elections and that's my ballot in the post.

I left the SoA after its leadership not only urged members to vote against a resolution to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, but also failed to meaningfully follow through on the sustainability resolution it did pass. I re-joined because only its members can shape our union into a real, functioning one.

My votes go to four candidates who bring a thorough, honest understanding of what a union is and is needed for: Mohammed Tony @m_tonsy Jen Calleja @jencalleja_ Polly Atkin @pollyrowena and Matt Abbott @mattabbottpoet

You don't need to know them in order to recognise their commitment to fair pay for writers and translators, to real freedom of expression, to a literature that is engaged and of the world, to honesty about literature being part of the political landscape in which it's created. It's in their statements and reading them fills me with rare excitement.

With a real union, imagine everything we could do. With these candidates representing us, we could build a real union.

Vote before Oct 22

We're inching in on the deadline for voting in the @societyofauthors Management Committee elections and that's my ballot in the post.

I left the SoA after its leadership not only urged members to vote against a resolution to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, but also failed to meaningfully follow through on the sustainability resolution it did pass. I re-joined because only its members can shape our union into a real, functioning one.

My votes go to four candidates who bring a thorough, honest understanding of what a union is and is needed for: Mohammed Tony @m_tonsy Jen Calleja @jencalleja_ Polly Atkin @pollyrowena and Matt Abbott @mattabbottpoet

You don't need to know them in order to recognise their commitment to fair pay for writers and translators, to real freedom of expression, to a literature that is engaged and of the world, to honesty about literature being part of the political landscape in which it's created. It's in their statements and reading them fills me with rare excitement.

With a real union, imagine everything we could do. With these candidates representing us, we could build a real union.

Vote before Oct 22

Returning online briefly from the land of keeping small human alive to share this piece, long in the making. I'm so proud and grateful to wondrous pal @yararodriguesfowler for setting out the truth about what happened with @fossilfreebooks and our divestment campaign.

It states the facts behind the false narratives: how we started and WHY, whatour demands were, the consequences. The meetings, the solidarity built and the magnificent worker-led organising that emerged.

Speaking of consequences, it will mean so much, collectively and individually, that this exists. It means a lot to me. Several of us, especially in Scotland, have lost work over this. Some of us were targeted by right-wing press. Writers, especially writers of colour, have been made to understand we don't count as Scottish and don't care enough about our industry. We did it because we care, and refused to exclude harmed communities (and fellow writers) in the Global South from that care.

I will always be immensely grateful to have organised with this group of people (much love Yara, @guy.gunaratne @mikaelaloach and @m_tonsy) out of an understanding that art is part of lived politics.

Please read it. Back to tiny earlobes.

Returning online briefly from the land of keeping small human alive to share this piece, long in the making. I'm so proud and grateful to wondrous pal @yararodriguesfowler for setting out the truth about what happened with @fossilfreebooks and our divestment campaign.

It states the facts behind the false narratives: how we started and WHY, whatour demands were, the consequences. The meetings, the solidarity built and the magnificent worker-led organising that emerged.

Speaking of consequences, it will mean so much, collectively and individually, that this exists. It means a lot to me. Several of us, especially in Scotland, have lost work over this. Some of us were targeted by right-wing press. Writers, especially writers of colour, have been made to understand we don't count as Scottish and don't care enough about our industry. We did it because we care, and refused to exclude harmed communities (and fellow writers) in the Global South from that care.

I will always be immensely grateful to have organised with this group of people (much love Yara, @guy.gunaratne @mikaelaloach and @m_tonsy) out of an understanding that art is part of lived politics.

Please read it. Back to tiny earlobes.

Returning online briefly from the land of keeping small human alive to share this piece, long in the making. I'm so proud and grateful to wondrous pal @yararodriguesfowler for setting out the truth about what happened with @fossilfreebooks and our divestment campaign.

It states the facts behind the false narratives: how we started and WHY, whatour demands were, the consequences. The meetings, the solidarity built and the magnificent worker-led organising that emerged.

Speaking of consequences, it will mean so much, collectively and individually, that this exists. It means a lot to me. Several of us, especially in Scotland, have lost work over this. Some of us were targeted by right-wing press. Writers, especially writers of colour, have been made to understand we don't count as Scottish and don't care enough about our industry. We did it because we care, and refused to exclude harmed communities (and fellow writers) in the Global South from that care.

I will always be immensely grateful to have organised with this group of people (much love Yara, @guy.gunaratne @mikaelaloach and @m_tonsy) out of an understanding that art is part of lived politics.

Please read it. Back to tiny earlobes.

Returning online briefly from the land of keeping small human alive to share this piece, long in the making. I'm so proud and grateful to wondrous pal @yararodriguesfowler for setting out the truth about what happened with @fossilfreebooks and our divestment campaign.

It states the facts behind the false narratives: how we started and WHY, whatour demands were, the consequences. The meetings, the solidarity built and the magnificent worker-led organising that emerged.

Speaking of consequences, it will mean so much, collectively and individually, that this exists. It means a lot to me. Several of us, especially in Scotland, have lost work over this. Some of us were targeted by right-wing press. Writers, especially writers of colour, have been made to understand we don't count as Scottish and don't care enough about our industry. We did it because we care, and refused to exclude harmed communities (and fellow writers) in the Global South from that care.

I will always be immensely grateful to have organised with this group of people (much love Yara, @guy.gunaratne @mikaelaloach and @m_tonsy) out of an understanding that art is part of lived politics.

Please read it. Back to tiny earlobes.

Hello. Six weeks of Ronia. Neither of us are on social media but we will see you on the streets soon.


We make the world for all children 🇵🇸

I have just emerged from what can only be called a journey into the brilliant mind of @jessjohannesson. I wish I could say this collection of essays was a speedy read, but the truth is, there is so much to chew on here it would be a disservice to the book to read it in any other way than by lingering and pausing long and deep within its pages.

Jessica touches upon pretty much all the crises of our times without once giving the impression that she's merely ticking off all the right boxes - as is often the case with books that deal with Heavy Matter. She deals with very heavy matter, alright, but with a touch so light and vulnerable you can literally see her wrestle in real time with big questions and concerns, inserting her fragile self into them; and you wrestle with them too, alongside her. But nothing about this book makes your head feel heavy. Her prose is so nimble and dare I say, enviable, that you trust her right away and allow yourself to get tangled and untangled, without resistance, within the webs of her nerves and their endings. It is in this scattering of the writer's thoughts that you, the reader, are able to anchor yourself.

This is a book about climate collapse, about systemic racism, about global imbalances. It's also a book about love, grief, care, community, solidarity and hope. Do read. You'll be the wiser for it.

From the book:

"Hope as a Human Right: The difference being that people don't, very often say: there's no love left. If someone told you that love had died, you'd have every right to turn around and say: 'hey, speak for yourself'."

-

Edinburgh is such a great city for writers and the more I meet them the more settled I feel in this city I now call home. I'm so glad to have discovered this special Edinburgh writer who also happens to live in my building 😊

@scribepub @scribe_uk @lighthousebks @edinburghlibraries

📢 Every climate justice writer belongs in their union.

🌱 The Society of Authors claims to be committed to sustainability. But climate justice is about more than sustainable sources of paper - it’s about power.

📚 In calling for individual authors to hold their publishers to account, the SoA is failing to harness its own power as a trade union and to address the role of finance in the climate crisis.

💶💶 The SoA’s own investment portfolio is managed by a bank with nearly 10% of its assets connected to fossil fuels. It has repeatedly failed to commit to divestment.

🌳 The SoA needs to change. But it won’t without you.

🏦 In 2024, a motion was passed for the SoA to “call on financial institutions with ties (for example, through sponsorship or other partnerships) to the publishing industry to divest from fossil fuel companies”.

0️⃣ It then promptly did almost nothing, as its own members were smeared in the right-wing press for calling on Baillie Gifford to divest.

🌍 AI is a climate justice issue.

👭 The SoA has finally discovered the power of collective action in its opposition to AI.

📈 But it is still failing to connect the dots between the corporations responsible for AI, its catastrophic impacts upon the environment, and its use by the Israeli state to erode the human rights of Palestinians.

🌲 The SoA must do more for climate justice - but it won’t without you.

➡️ Join the Society of Authors by Wednesday 30th April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections.

➡️ Visit the link in our bio to check your eligibility.

➡️ Need help with union fees? Request £50 via the Fossil Free Books Open Collective fund.

✊️ I belong in my union and so do you.

Source: ‘Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data’, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/israel-military-ai-surveillance

📢 Every climate justice writer belongs in their union.

🌱 The Society of Authors claims to be committed to sustainability. But climate justice is about more than sustainable sources of paper - it’s about power.

📚 In calling for individual authors to hold their publishers to account, the SoA is failing to harness its own power as a trade union and to address the role of finance in the climate crisis.

💶💶 The SoA’s own investment portfolio is managed by a bank with nearly 10% of its assets connected to fossil fuels. It has repeatedly failed to commit to divestment.

🌳 The SoA needs to change. But it won’t without you.

🏦 In 2024, a motion was passed for the SoA to “call on financial institutions with ties (for example, through sponsorship or other partnerships) to the publishing industry to divest from fossil fuel companies”.

0️⃣ It then promptly did almost nothing, as its own members were smeared in the right-wing press for calling on Baillie Gifford to divest.

🌍 AI is a climate justice issue.

👭 The SoA has finally discovered the power of collective action in its opposition to AI.

📈 But it is still failing to connect the dots between the corporations responsible for AI, its catastrophic impacts upon the environment, and its use by the Israeli state to erode the human rights of Palestinians.

🌲 The SoA must do more for climate justice - but it won’t without you.

➡️ Join the Society of Authors by Wednesday 30th April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections.

➡️ Visit the link in our bio to check your eligibility.

➡️ Need help with union fees? Request £50 via the Fossil Free Books Open Collective fund.

✊️ I belong in my union and so do you.

Source: ‘Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data’, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/israel-military-ai-surveillance

📢 Every climate justice writer belongs in their union.

🌱 The Society of Authors claims to be committed to sustainability. But climate justice is about more than sustainable sources of paper - it’s about power.

📚 In calling for individual authors to hold their publishers to account, the SoA is failing to harness its own power as a trade union and to address the role of finance in the climate crisis.

💶💶 The SoA’s own investment portfolio is managed by a bank with nearly 10% of its assets connected to fossil fuels. It has repeatedly failed to commit to divestment.

🌳 The SoA needs to change. But it won’t without you.

🏦 In 2024, a motion was passed for the SoA to “call on financial institutions with ties (for example, through sponsorship or other partnerships) to the publishing industry to divest from fossil fuel companies”.

0️⃣ It then promptly did almost nothing, as its own members were smeared in the right-wing press for calling on Baillie Gifford to divest.

🌍 AI is a climate justice issue.

👭 The SoA has finally discovered the power of collective action in its opposition to AI.

📈 But it is still failing to connect the dots between the corporations responsible for AI, its catastrophic impacts upon the environment, and its use by the Israeli state to erode the human rights of Palestinians.

🌲 The SoA must do more for climate justice - but it won’t without you.

➡️ Join the Society of Authors by Wednesday 30th April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections.

➡️ Visit the link in our bio to check your eligibility.

➡️ Need help with union fees? Request £50 via the Fossil Free Books Open Collective fund.

✊️ I belong in my union and so do you.

Source: ‘Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data’, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/israel-military-ai-surveillance

📢 Every climate justice writer belongs in their union.

🌱 The Society of Authors claims to be committed to sustainability. But climate justice is about more than sustainable sources of paper - it’s about power.

📚 In calling for individual authors to hold their publishers to account, the SoA is failing to harness its own power as a trade union and to address the role of finance in the climate crisis.

💶💶 The SoA’s own investment portfolio is managed by a bank with nearly 10% of its assets connected to fossil fuels. It has repeatedly failed to commit to divestment.

🌳 The SoA needs to change. But it won’t without you.

🏦 In 2024, a motion was passed for the SoA to “call on financial institutions with ties (for example, through sponsorship or other partnerships) to the publishing industry to divest from fossil fuel companies”.

0️⃣ It then promptly did almost nothing, as its own members were smeared in the right-wing press for calling on Baillie Gifford to divest.

🌍 AI is a climate justice issue.

👭 The SoA has finally discovered the power of collective action in its opposition to AI.

📈 But it is still failing to connect the dots between the corporations responsible for AI, its catastrophic impacts upon the environment, and its use by the Israeli state to erode the human rights of Palestinians.

🌲 The SoA must do more for climate justice - but it won’t without you.

➡️ Join the Society of Authors by Wednesday 30th April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections.

➡️ Visit the link in our bio to check your eligibility.

➡️ Need help with union fees? Request £50 via the Fossil Free Books Open Collective fund.

✊️ I belong in my union and so do you.

Source: ‘Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data’, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/israel-military-ai-surveillance

📢 Every climate justice writer belongs in their union.

🌱 The Society of Authors claims to be committed to sustainability. But climate justice is about more than sustainable sources of paper - it’s about power.

📚 In calling for individual authors to hold their publishers to account, the SoA is failing to harness its own power as a trade union and to address the role of finance in the climate crisis.

💶💶 The SoA’s own investment portfolio is managed by a bank with nearly 10% of its assets connected to fossil fuels. It has repeatedly failed to commit to divestment.

🌳 The SoA needs to change. But it won’t without you.

🏦 In 2024, a motion was passed for the SoA to “call on financial institutions with ties (for example, through sponsorship or other partnerships) to the publishing industry to divest from fossil fuel companies”.

0️⃣ It then promptly did almost nothing, as its own members were smeared in the right-wing press for calling on Baillie Gifford to divest.

🌍 AI is a climate justice issue.

👭 The SoA has finally discovered the power of collective action in its opposition to AI.

📈 But it is still failing to connect the dots between the corporations responsible for AI, its catastrophic impacts upon the environment, and its use by the Israeli state to erode the human rights of Palestinians.

🌲 The SoA must do more for climate justice - but it won’t without you.

➡️ Join the Society of Authors by Wednesday 30th April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections.

➡️ Visit the link in our bio to check your eligibility.

➡️ Need help with union fees? Request £50 via the Fossil Free Books Open Collective fund.

✊️ I belong in my union and so do you.

Source: ‘Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data’, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/israel-military-ai-surveillance

📢 Every climate justice writer belongs in their union.

🌱 The Society of Authors claims to be committed to sustainability. But climate justice is about more than sustainable sources of paper - it’s about power.

📚 In calling for individual authors to hold their publishers to account, the SoA is failing to harness its own power as a trade union and to address the role of finance in the climate crisis.

💶💶 The SoA’s own investment portfolio is managed by a bank with nearly 10% of its assets connected to fossil fuels. It has repeatedly failed to commit to divestment.

🌳 The SoA needs to change. But it won’t without you.

🏦 In 2024, a motion was passed for the SoA to “call on financial institutions with ties (for example, through sponsorship or other partnerships) to the publishing industry to divest from fossil fuel companies”.

0️⃣ It then promptly did almost nothing, as its own members were smeared in the right-wing press for calling on Baillie Gifford to divest.

🌍 AI is a climate justice issue.

👭 The SoA has finally discovered the power of collective action in its opposition to AI.

📈 But it is still failing to connect the dots between the corporations responsible for AI, its catastrophic impacts upon the environment, and its use by the Israeli state to erode the human rights of Palestinians.

🌲 The SoA must do more for climate justice - but it won’t without you.

➡️ Join the Society of Authors by Wednesday 30th April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections.

➡️ Visit the link in our bio to check your eligibility.

➡️ Need help with union fees? Request £50 via the Fossil Free Books Open Collective fund.

✊️ I belong in my union and so do you.

Source: ‘Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data’, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/israel-military-ai-surveillance

A warm welcome to our first guest announcement! Check out more of her work @jessjohannesson 🎉🎉

#sypscotcon25 #sypscotland #literatureconference #publishingconference

A few days on the Black Isle. How difficult it's been to slow the heart down lately. These past years. But it did, by rolling yarn on a train, by waiting for tides and trains, by celebrating ten years since the fasting of the hands, the making of the vows with Person, by walking, walking, walking. The outside world is never out there, the in never locked away.

A few days on the Black Isle. How difficult it's been to slow the heart down lately. These past years. But it did, by rolling yarn on a train, by waiting for tides and trains, by celebrating ten years since the fasting of the hands, the making of the vows with Person, by walking, walking, walking. The outside world is never out there, the in never locked away.

A few days on the Black Isle. How difficult it's been to slow the heart down lately. These past years. But it did, by rolling yarn on a train, by waiting for tides and trains, by celebrating ten years since the fasting of the hands, the making of the vows with Person, by walking, walking, walking. The outside world is never out there, the in never locked away.

A few days on the Black Isle. How difficult it's been to slow the heart down lately. These past years. But it did, by rolling yarn on a train, by waiting for tides and trains, by celebrating ten years since the fasting of the hands, the making of the vows with Person, by walking, walking, walking. The outside world is never out there, the in never locked away.

A few days on the Black Isle. How difficult it's been to slow the heart down lately. These past years. But it did, by rolling yarn on a train, by waiting for tides and trains, by celebrating ten years since the fasting of the hands, the making of the vows with Person, by walking, walking, walking. The outside world is never out there, the in never locked away.

A few days on the Black Isle. How difficult it's been to slow the heart down lately. These past years. But it did, by rolling yarn on a train, by waiting for tides and trains, by celebrating ten years since the fasting of the hands, the making of the vows with Person, by walking, walking, walking. The outside world is never out there, the in never locked away.

A few days on the Black Isle. How difficult it's been to slow the heart down lately. These past years. But it did, by rolling yarn on a train, by waiting for tides and trains, by celebrating ten years since the fasting of the hands, the making of the vows with Person, by walking, walking, walking. The outside world is never out there, the in never locked away.