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🌊💙💧HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO US💧💙🌊

We are proud to announce the publication of our Arts Council England (@aceagrams) National Lottery Grant funded anthology, What the Water Gave Us. Published by Takeaway Press @takeawaypress (with illustrations by its talented artist Oscar Price (@slimelad)) and edited by Elodie Barnes and Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, What the Water Gave Us celebrates the stories and voices of women and non-binary writers from migrant backgrounds.

The anthology features thirteen personal essays and poems by writers from the platform and The Ruppin Agency Writers’ Studio, a foreword by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou (@hannahhg25) and Elodie Barnes (@elodierosebarnes), and an afterword by The Ruppin Agency co-director and agent, Jonathan Ruppin.

Featuring beautiful original writing from Shirley Ahura @swizzbeatss), Susan Barker (@_sue_k_b), Jenny Chamarette (@jenny.chamarette), Yvonne Battle-Felton (@whyiwritebattlefelton), Selin Genc (@lady_hamilton_as_bacchante), Denise Rose Hansen (@drohansen), Emma Korantema Hanson (@emmakorantema), Claire Hynes (@_clairejhynes), So Mayer, Emily Midorikawa (@midorikawaemily), Yen Ooi (@yenooi), Shamini Sriskandarajah and Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit (@rojbinarjen), What the Water Gave Us plumbs the depths of migrant identity and positionality today.

Read our full press release here or via the link in our bio and stories:

https://lucywritersplatform.com/2023/06/28/lucy-writers-announces-the-publication-of-its-arts-council-england-funded-anthology-what-the-water-gave-us/

#books #booksof2023 #essays #poetry #publicationday #anthology #whatthewatergaveus #Water #migration #migrantstories #writingbynonbinarywriters #lucywriters #writingbywomen #womenwriters #migrantlivesmatter #migrantidentity #artscouncilengland #lucycavendish #theruppinagency #takeawaypress #migrantwriters #publicationday #burleyfisherbooks taken in Burley Fisher Books by @lucywriters

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🗣📣📣 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT & COVER REVEAL 📣📣🗣

We're delighted to reveal the cover of our @aceagrams funded anthology, What the Water Gave Us, designed by @oscargprice / @slimelad and published by @takeawaypress!

And we're thrilled to invite you to the launch at Burley Fisher (@burleyfisher), London, Thursday 29 June, 6.30pm-9pm - see link below and on their website to book.

https://burleyfisherbooks.com/products/launch-ticket-what-the-water-gave-us

Featuring essays and poetry by women and nonbinary writers from migrant backgrounds, What the Water Gave Us explores what it’s like to be of migrant heritage in parapandemic, post-Brexit Britain.

It includes beautiful original writing from Shirley Ahura (@swizzbeatss)
Susan Barker (@_sue_k_b), Jenny Chamarette (@jenny.chamarette), Yvonne Battle-Felton (@whyiwritebattlefelton), Selin Genc (@selingenc_art), Denise Rose Hansen (@drohansen), Emma Korantema Hanson (@emmakorantema), Claire Hynes (@_clairejhynes), So Mayer, Emily Midorikawa (@midorikawaemily),
Yen Ooi (@yenooi), Shamini Sriskandarajah and Rojbîn Arjen Yiğit @rojbinarjen), and features a Foreword by Editors Elodie Rose Barnes (@elodierosebarnes)and Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou (@elodierosebarnes) and an Afterword by Jonathan Ruppin (@ruppinagencywritersstudio).

📸 front cover designed by @oscargprice and published by @takeawaypress (printed by @pagemasters.co).

#whatthewatergaveus #anthology #books #essays #writing #poetry #migration #migrantidentity #migrantstories #water #lucywriters #ruppinagency #artscouncilengland #womenwriters #womenpoets #takeawaypress #pagemasters #risograph #booklaunch #booksof2023 #burleyfisherbooks by @lucywriters

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💙🌊 Look what the ocean brought in! She's here!! 💙🌊

We're ever so grateful to @pagemasters.co for delivering our little books a few days early🙏💙🙏

Come to our launch at @burleyfisher on Thursday 29 June, 6.30-9pm to celebrate and purchase a copy. The book will be stocked there after and available to purchase on our website and at other retailers.

Featuring beautiful illustrations by @slimelad, design and typesetting by @pemamonaghan & @slimelad too (of @takeawaypress).

It includes the fantastic writing of @swizzbeatss, Susan Barker (@_sue_k_b), @whyiwritebattlefelton, @jenny.chamarette, @selingenc_art, @drohansen, @emmakorantema, @_clairejhynes, So Mayer, @midorikawaemily, @yenooi, Shamini Sriskandarajah, @rojbinarjen and a Foreword by Editors @hannahhg25 and @elodierosebarnes, with an Afterword by Jonathan Ruppin (@ruppinagencywritersstudio).

In saying what the water gives to them, we ask you readers, what does it give to you?💧

With thanks to Arts Council England @aceagrams and @lucycavendishcollege for their support.

#migration #books #immigrations #whatthewatergaveus #pagemasters #takeawaypress #ruppinagency #lucywriters #lucycavendish #artscouncilengland #brexitbritain #womenwriters #nonbinarywriters #womenandnonbinary #essays #poetry #memoir #writing #writingcommunity #water #fridakahlo by @lucywriters

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The 2026 @lucycavendishcollege Florence Staniforth Student Fiction Prize is now open for entries. We’re so thrilled for Abigail Moss @abbyrmoss, one of our recent graduates, who won the prize in 2025 for her story ‘Contortions’!

Abigail Moss is a fiction writer and journalist based in London, whose fiction has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar @bazaaruk, Grazia @grazia and Mslexia @mslexia. She is currently working on her first novel.

On submitting to prizes, Abigail gave us one of her top tips: ’Get a few people to read your story and give feedback - they’re bound to notice things you didn’t, or point out things you might not have thought of! And even if you don’t incorporate all the feedback you’re given, thinking about why not is really useful too – it can help you think about your story in different ways’

Congrats, Abigail!

If you’re one of our CW Master’s students at Lucy Cavendish, make sure you submit your story of up to 4000 words by the 10th February deadline! @lucywriters by @lucywriters

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📸Flick through some moments of the last @lipstomoon captured by @hollyrevellphotography

🎺Thanks to @koroleko_moussa_dembele playing balafon, kora and jembe; @2digitvisuals making a whirlpool of visions; our guest poets @hannahhg25, @sabeen.chaudhry and @emmakorantema; @dirark82 on the oud; and @mekdad.yamen keeping the night long on the decks.

🎨This event is woven together by @tarafteh (vocals and poetry) and @pouyaehsaei (music/electronics)

💜Thanks to @lucywriters and @referencepoint180 for this collaboration and to all those who helped out especially @marie_frnrl, @sophiadowsonc, @nahalmarzban, @b3hru2, @phoenixyemoja, @mayamayeatyou, @jemimayong and Marlow Adé. by @lucywriters

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❤️❤️PEOPLE/EVENT APPRECIATION POST❤️❤️

We're thrilled to be collaborating with the ever talented artists, musicians, writers, performers of @lipstomoon but none more so than its creators, the hyper brilliant @pouyaehsaei & @tarafteh - two artists we've longed admired and whose work we absolutely love.

From the Lips to the Moon is their musical brain child, and although they're both off doing a myriad other fantastical projects (no lie!), they still find time to bring people together for this event, celebrating languages, sounds and diverse artistic disciplines across borders and cultural lines.

This Thursday come and join us in celebrating and enjoying this magical night @referencepoint180

🎤With writers & poets @tarafteh @emmakorantema @sabeen.chaudhry @hannahhg25

🪇Musicians @pouyaehsaei @koroleko_moussa_dembele

🎛DJ @mekdad.yamen

📽Visual artist @2digitvisuals

& more!

Book your tickets via the link in our story & the Lips to Moon bio:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-the-lips-to-the-moon-tickets-698721353377

📸 Event image by @hamithehosseini & photographs by Holly Revell & @jemimayong

#fromthelipstothemoon #tarafatehiirani #pouyaeshaei #referencepoint #music #musicevent #poetryevent #poetry #dj #dancing #literaryevent #event #musicians #livemusic #liveperformance taken in Reference Point by @lucywriters

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This Thursday @lipstomoon in collaboration with @lucywriters. We will hear the poetry of @emmakorantema – poet, DJ and much more. 7 Sep: @referencepoint180. Tickets on eventbrite via @lipstomoon bio.

Emma Korantema Hanson is a London-born and raised Ghanaian-British writer, multidisciplinary artist and formerly practising junior doctor. With bylines in Vogue Italia, The London Journal, Lucy Writers’ Platform and more, Emma has contributed to several Arts Council England funded projects as a writer, all while working on her two-time literary prize (Writers’ and Artists’ 2021, Morley College 2022) shortlisted first book.

Swipe to see our full line up: @koroleko_moussa_dembele, @sabeen.chaudhry, @hannahhg25, @mekdad.yamen, @emmakorantema, @2digitvisuals, @tarafteh and @pouyaehsaei. And special guest @dirark82 taken in Reference Point by @lucywriters

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For our upcoming ‘unusual’ music and poetry night and in collaboration with @lucywriters we have invited poet and writer Sabeen Chaudhry and we’re really looking forward to having her on the show. We’ll be at @referencepoint180 on 7 Sep. Tickets via @lipstomoon bio.

Sabeen Chaudhry writes poetry, theory and fiction. She has been published in magazines including Worms, Gutter and SPAM. She collaborates with artists, most recently for Singapore Biennale and with collectives like DEMO Moving Image, and co-edits Deleuzine. Her first collection, Rimming the Event Horizon, is forthcoming from The 87 Press.

Swipe to see our exciting line-up of poets, musicians and more: @koroleko_moussa_dembele, @sabeen.chaudhry, @hannahhg25, @mekdad.yamen, @emmakorantema, @2digitvisuals, @tarafteh and @pouyaehsaei and our special guest @dirark82 taken in Reference Point by @lucywriters

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🌓Next week’s @lipstomoon is in collaboration with the wonderful @lucywriters and we’ll start our guest introductions with @hannahhg25 the force behind this amazing platform. 7 Sep: @referencepoint180. Tickets are on eventbrite via @lipstomoon bio.

Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou is a writer, editor and currently completing her PhD. She is the Founding editor-in-chief and Arts editor of Lucy Writers and managed their Arts Council Project, What the Water Gave Us. Her work has appeared in Prototype, The White Review, The London Magazine, Burlington Contemporary and many others.

📖Lucy Writers is a platform and website devoted to showcasing the work of women and non-binary writers and creatives; check out their recently published poetry anthology What the Water Gave Us: Essays and Poetry about Migration by Women and Non-binary Writers.

🔥We have a really exciting line-up of poets, musicians and more: @koroleko_moussa_dembele, @sabeen.chaudhry, @hannahhg25, @mekdad.yamen, @emmakorantema, @2digitvisuals, @tarafteh and @pouyaehsaei with secret guests which we’ll gradually reveal.

photo by: Kate Coghlan taken in Reference Point by @lucywriters

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"Nino Strachey’s Young Bloomsbury: A New Queer History offers a fascinating intervention that breathes life into a familiar narrative. Strachey casts her net wider than the familiar ‘Old Bloomsbury’ group headed up by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Clive Bell, and Lytton Strachey (a relation of Nino Strachey’s), introducing readers to lesser-known ‘Young Bloomsbury’ acolytes and associates. Her intergenerational approach is refreshing and makes for a lively, voluble read. By drawing on her family archive – along with correspondence, bequests, and forgotten novels – Strachey maps an intergenerational network that not only fostered a supportive environment for its younger members, but also re-energised its elders..."

Mapping the intricacies of a dazzling social world, 'Young Bloomsbury: A New Queer History' by Nino Strachey (@ninostrachey, published by @johnmurrays) traces and celebrates the queer lineage that extended beyond the confines of ‘Old Bloomsbury’, in an open, generous account that is both biography and cultural history, writes Lottie Whalen (@lottie_whale).

Read Lottie's review here, or via the link in our bio:

https://lucywritersplatform.com/2023/07/23/queer-tricks-hermaphrodite-dances-nino-stracheys-young-bloomsbury-a-new-queer-history/

📷: Nino Strachey by Alex Schneideman.

#bookreview #ninostrachey #youngbloomsbury #queerhistory #queerculture #biography #culturalhistory #oldbloomsbury #bookswelove #reviews #booksofinstagram #lottiewhalen #writerscommunity #johnmurraypress by @lucywriters

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'and you start the poem talking about yourself

in the third person because you’re running

from the feelings, as fast as Daphne with every

intention of turning into something more beautiful

than yourself

so I switch

to see what it’s like when I take them as mine

and the pain moves up through my spine,

across my shoulders, like the boulder but sharper,

lighter. The ghost of a touch.'

Catherine Norris (@marbleplayground) exquisitely captures the intimate bodily nature of loss and joy, pleasure and pain across four poems. If in ‘Motion’ the memorable feelings of hurt and grief slip between tenses, then in ‘Oceanic’ pleasure unspools moment by moment, and the magical knowledge of life on earth expands star by star.

Read Catherine's poems here or via the link in our bio:

https://lucywritersplatform.com/2023/07/20/motion-and-other-poems-by-catherine-norris/

📸 #photograph by André Kertész, Distortion no. 40, (1933).

#catherinenorris #poetry #poems #womenpoets #womenwriters #poetsofinstagram #bodies #embodiment #pain #grief #writing #relationships #nature #writing #writingcommunity by @lucywriters

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'In Suzuki’s futures, characters oscillate between excessive emotions and passivity. Whether this is anger, longing for love, or total disconnection, these people are often surveilled and subjected to intervention by shady organisations. Yet the government and other various magical or intergalactic bureaucracies are seldom the focus of the story. Rather, they are omnipresent but impenetrable, which doesn’t stop them from regulating, pathologising, and experimenting on the general populace.'

The second English-language publication of Izumi Suzuki’s short stories (@versobooks) delves deeper into the politics of feeling and the future’s dark underbelly, writes Jennifer Brough (@occultpain).

Read Jennifer's review here or via the link in our bio:

https://lucywritersplatform.com/2023/07/17/hit-parade-of-tears-stories-by-izumi-suzuki-the-emotional-disparities-of-dystopia/

📸 images courtesy of Verso.

#izumisuzuki #hitparadeoftears #versobooks #verso #fiction #stories #fictionbywomen #shortstories #shortstoriesbywomen #translation #japaneseliterature #japanesewriters #translatedliterature #reviews #booksofinstagram #bookreviews #booksintranslation #bookswelove #jenniferbrough #writerscommunity by @lucywriters

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