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"In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers." Chadwick Boseman, 1976-2020 🕊😔
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🗣️ SO excited to announce / let you know that we'll be publishing the autobiography of a true national hero... the one and only
@malorieblackman
OBE 🎉
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One of the saddest things in life is incredible talent and lack of confidence. It isn't about grabbing the mic or being the loudest in the room. You can be quiet, calm, and collected, but just have the confidence to go & do it -
@stormzy
✊
#TuesdayThoughts
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“You never know what you might create, or the change you might inspire.” - Jamal Edwards 🕊💔
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Starting today with some epic news...
@sidgentlefilms
, the producers of Killing Eve, are turning Taking Up Space into a TV series 🤯
Big up
@ChelseaKwakye
and
@OreOgunb
, this is going to be *chefs kiss*
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“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” - Toni Morrison, 1931-2019
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Keisha The Sket proofs* are here 🤌🏽🔥
Hardbacks soon come. Pre-order now.
*a proof is a version of the book that comes before it’s out in the world. Allows us to check everything before it hits bookshops + gets to you 👍🏽
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📢📢Excited to announce that this September
#Merky
Books will be launching a new pocket-sized book series called 'How To'
They'll be part memoir, part practical guides from emerging and established experts, designed to inspire and empower you.
The first set includes…
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Super excited to announce the longlist for our 2020 New Writers' Prize 🙌🏽 Congratulations to all of you, we're looking forward to welcoming you to our (virtual) writers' camp in the New Year!
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SO excited to introduce you to our new Commissioning Editor,
@lemelp
(co-founder of
@plantain_papers
) 🙏🏽🔥
Lemara will be helping us publish even more books & championing new authors. She'll also be jumping on Twitter now & again to say hey 👋🏽
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.
@stormzy
and
@malorieblackman
just announced our two winners at The London Palladium.
Hafsa Zayyan won with her novel submission ‘We Are All Birds Of Uganda’ and Monika Radojevic won with her poetry submission ‘23 And Me’ 🏆📚
#NewWritersPrize
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FRIDAY NEWS 🗣️🗣️Early copies are in for We Are All Birds Of Uganda... our upcoming novel by Hafsa Zayyan (one of our winners of the
#NewWritersPrize
last year) 🎉 We've dressed them in the colours of the Ugandan flag 🇺🇬
Stay tuned for a giveaway very soon 😏
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"A black woman has never won. Only 4 black women have ever been shortlisted & there's been 300 books shortlisted. Hopefully this signals a new direction for the Booker"
The legendary
@BernardineEvari
after winning the Booker Prize - the first black woman to do so 👑
#BookerPrize
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In light of the recent ruling from the European Human Rights Court, we reaffirm our unwavering support of Athlete. Icon. Activist. Caster Semenya.
Caster's story is our story, a powerful story of ambition and acceptance that we are honoured to be publishing.
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🚨 Have a great idea for a book? You have 24 hours to submit your idea + a sample of your writing to us!
The winner will be published by
#Merky
Books, just like our 2019 winners Hafsa Zayyan + Monika Radojevic ✨
Submit before midnight Friday 30 October:
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Today on
#WindrushDay
we continue to celebrate a whole generation of people who came here and contributed way too much to be treated the way they have.
We've seen a few of you asking for book recommendations, here's a handful of ours + more...
THREAD
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The news is officially out!
@OWNITLDN
have just announced at this year’s
#FutureBook19
that Derek Owusu’s second book (which we’re publishing in 2021) has officially been optioned for film / tv by Idris Elba’s
@GDPicsUK
🎉
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Super excited to announce the shortlist for our 2020/21 New Writers' Prize 🙌🏽 Congratulations to all of you!
Big shout out to the entire longlist as well. We hope that this is just the start of your writing journey. We'll continue to support you and cheer you on 🙏🏽
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"Quite simply one of the most important football books ever written." -
@jonathanliew
A New Formation by Calum Jacobs is out tomorrow. It features
@NicenNeetz
@IanWright0
@AniefiokEkp
@Okwonga
@JNETTEKWAKYE
+ more!
Grab your copy now.
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Another author has joined the family! Big, big welcome to Rivers Solomon 🙌🏽
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First copies of That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu (latest writer to join our family) are finally here and we're giving away 5 SIGNED copies to celebrate 🙏🏽 💥
All you have to do to win is a) follow us & b) RT. We'll be announcing 5 winners on Monday 🏆
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We're very happy to announce Jyoti Patel as this year's New Writers' Prize winner 🎉🎉
@Jyoti__Patel
's submission 'One Of Six' is a coming-of-age story that explores what it means to be a person of colour in Britain today. We can't wait to share her story with you all 🙌🏽
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#GALENTINES
GIVEAWAY! 🚩
Win copies of
@taylordiorr
's
#TheSituationship
and prizes from
@DeesBasement
and Roop!
RT to enter, & respond to this tweet tagging the person you’d share this bundle with. Competition closes 20.02.23. UK entries only. Happy Galentines!
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Hi guys 👋🏽 There's been a lot of noise recently & we wanted to step back as a team for a bit. To collectively care for ourselves & exhale.
We (our authors, community, staff) very much understand this time not as a “moment” but something we experience in our daily lives.
(1/3)
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“I don’t think I’d have been able to publish this kind of book anywhere else... Writers of colour aren’t really given the space to be experimental.”
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We are so excited to announce the
#Merky
Books Literature Festival as part of
@RoundhouseLDN
In the Round Festival.
A celebration of creativity, culture and arts, claim your free ticket here:
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Hey guys👋🏽 We know it's unsettling times rn but just wanted to say that we're still here.
⠀
For anyone at home working on their writing, we've got some 👌🏽 tips coming from our authors. Also have team recommended reads on the way.
Take care out there, here if you wanna chat 🖤
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Announcing the return of
@stormzy
as a New Writers' Prize judge 🏆
Remember, entries close at 23:59 tomorrow on the 29th of August so make sure you don't miss out!
Click here to find out more and enter:
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"Aspiring writers, enter that prize. Even if you don't win, you'll be seen" -
@CandiceC_W
on our New Writers' Prize 🙏🏽
You've got one week left to apply:
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Just to add, as you all probably know by now,
@GraceFVictory
is currently in hospital recovering from covid. All of us at
#Merky
Books continue to send her all the love, light, and prayers so that she may be reunited with her family and friends soon 🙏🏽
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🚨 Very excited to announce that
@cyborgyndroid
is the next writer to join our
#Merky
Books family 🙏🏽
We'll be publishing 'Sorrowland', their next novel, in spring/summer 2021. Trust us, it's going to be a ride 🤯 More on Rivers Solomon and Sorrowland soon ✌️🏽
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to every single one of you. We appreciate all the support since we launched just over a year ago, couldn't do what we do without you. See you in the next decade 🤪🙏🏽
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Sound on 🔊
The
#Merky
Books New Writers' Prize is back and submissions close on August 29th.
If you have a manuscript you are working on, or an idea ready to be put onto paper, we want to hear from you.
Click here to find out more and apply:
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🚨 Event Alert 🚨
Come along to hear
@malorieblackman
discuss her long-awaited autobiography, Just Sayin’, taking us on an inspiring journey back to her childhood, to the precise moment she fell in love with words.
Get your tickets here:
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“The way the industry is set up, you’d think black books don’t sell... you might assume that black authors don’t exist. The truth is so far from that. ” -
@CandiceC_W
🗣️🗣️
via
@BritishVogue
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Superheroes will feature inspirational stories from over 50 iconic British figures incl.
✨
@IanWright0
✨
@missjourdandunn
✨
@aimafidon
✨
@MoTheComedian
✨
@dinaashersmith
✨
@TripleCripples
+ many more
Pre-order now!
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Big shout out to our Commissioning Editor
@lemelp
who was included in this year's ELLE list ✨✍🏽
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More snaps from our talk at Harris Academy earlier this week 📸
Definitely planning to do more school visits in 2020 ✌🏽
#PenguinTalks
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We got like
@BarackObama
and pulled together our reading list for the summer 😏
#MerkyBooksReads
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Like last year, the prize is open for:
👉🏽 fiction, non-fiction + poetry submissions
👉🏽 16-30 year olds from UK or ROI
👉🏽 unpublished writers + writers without an agent
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As promised, here are
@OreOgunb
's (co-author of
#TakingUpSpace
) top writing tips:
1️⃣ Set yourself targets. Ore aimed to write 500-1000 words a day
2️⃣ Don't write in bed. Maybe make a tea & sit at a table to get "in the zone"
3️⃣ Read! It's the best way to improve your writing
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Today 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 the 👏🏽 day.
You can now buy 'Dreaming In A Nightmare', written by our debut author
@je1bc
, in all bookstores 🎉
It aims to inspire everyone that’s constantly told that they can't, that they won't. Grab your copy now:
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This year's guest judges include:
👉🏽 Candice Brathwaite
👉🏽
@EmmaDabiri
👉🏽
@JohnsonThompson
👉🏽
@GuzKhanOfficial
👉🏽 Stormzy
They'll be helping us pick a winner 🙏🏽
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