Please support this letter protesting the suspension of this vital contributor to New Writing. The role of MAs like this is unsung, but SO MANY brilliant writers (and Dramaturgs) began on the Goldsmith's MA (and FWIW my Bruntwood-winning play was my dissertation) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Congratulations @marthaloader.bsky.social on this immense achievement. The Town is a special play. We're very proud of you.
Fantastic news, @marthaloader.bsky.social The Town is such a brilliant play (and best wishes to the everyone else on the shortlist too).
Playwrights! Screenwriters! Friends of playwrights and screenwriters! If you're in London on the 24th July PLEASE join us for a #SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial at Soho Theatre Walthamstow. Pls share.
Still a few more hours to go!
🍊✍️ Introducing our 2025 Writers’ Collective!
We’re delighted to welcome Hassan Abdulrazzak, Azan Ahmed, Martha Watson Allpress, Catherine Dyson, Ben Weatherill, and for the first time, the Collective includes a translator, Lucy Phelps, in association with
@bcltuea.bsky.social.
Come and see the work in development of our amazing UEA Scriptwriters next week at the Garage in Norwich: ueascriptwritingma.substack.com
Come and work with us at UEA
A photo of Jess Thom, a white, wheelchair using woman looking into the camera with a serious expression. She is wearing a blue and green hoodie, black padded gloves and is pictured in from of a brick wall
I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
A phenomenal turnout for the UEA UCU day of action. Staff and students are making their voice heard, striving for a future for Higher Ed that doesn't look as bleak as it does right now. #SaveUEA #UKHE #StopTheCuts @ucu.org.uk
The black and white flyer for UEA UCU strike action aimed at students. It has an image of the famous ziggurats and text saying save jobs, save UEA, and our working conditions are your learning conditions
Thursday is normally my first year introduction to archaeology class, which I absolutely love teaching, but instead i’ll be on the picket line with my UEA @uea-ucu.bsky.social colleagues, fighting compulsory redundancies. Please follow our branch account for more info!
Loved writing this for the Guardian about trying to pass on my Iraqi Jewish food heritage to my son. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...
Great evening! Can't wait to read it Samantha!
Last night at the Audio Drama Awards, the BBC announced a 90-min monthly play slot on Radio 4
It follows campaigning by WGGB, sister unions + the audio drama community to #SaveAudioDrama
Thanks to our members who joined the campaign
Our response 🔽
writersguild.org.uk/bbc-announce...
I am on strike today supporting the @uea-ucu.bsky.social action against compulsory redundancies at UEA. So many wonderful and brilliant colleagues at risk and its not right.
📣UEA UCU Day of Action: Join us from 8am outside AHB on Weds 26th.
🚩We are striking for our colleagues at risk of redundancy.
🚩We are striking to protect the education of our students.
🚩We are striking for a better future for UEA.
✊Join us. #SaveUEA
Really love this weeks Start The Week with @jallenpaisant.bsky.social @samanthaellis.bsky.social and Abdulrazak Gurnah, on food, soil, migration, and memory
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Clare has been a force of nature in the East and she will be sorely missed around here. I couldn't be more grateful to her for her support and friendship over the past few years. She and the whole @hightidetheatre.bsky.social team have been a dream to work with. The NT are lucky to have her!
An important piece in today’s Observer from Katie Hims on why cuts to audio drama are so damaging - to writers, audiences and the wider cultural ecosystem in the UK
We continue to campaign to Save Audio Drama at the BBC #SADatTheBBC
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Sickening and wicked provocation. Normalizing ethnic cleansing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
The Geneva Convention (which the US has ratified) forbids the permanent and forcible removal of citizens from their homes.
*Krishnanagar
Let me know if you'd like to have a chat about indigo, empire and textiles sometime... it's kind of taken over my life!
And there's an astonishing Krishnagar model of an indigo factory at Kew...https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/TO_N_qFrSz-Go6vYbjevNw
Let me know if you'd like to have a chat!
Remarkably, indigo, often regarded as a 'tainted' or 'cursed' crop in Bengal, is now being revived - as a nitrogen-fixing legume - it presents a sustainable alternative to tobacco cultivation. www.theindigogiant.com/soil-science
@willdalrymple.bsky.social @sathnam.bsky.social Komola Collective told this extraordinary story in my 2024 #Offies nominated stage play INDIGO GIANT - www.komola.co.uk/indigogiant - published by salamanderstreet.com/product/indi...
Fascinated by this @empirepoduk.bsky.social , and great to hear mentioned the story of Gandhi and Indigo in Champaran - @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @sathnam.bsky.social I wonder if you'll the explore the tragic story of 19thC indigo cultivation and revolution as well? See www.theindigogiant.com
And published by Salamander Street salamanderstreet.com/product/indi...
And Komola Collective's beautiful production and tour of my play INDIGO GIANT:
www.komola.co.uk/indigogiant - nominated for an #Offies award for best new play.
