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Dabydeen's Sweet Li Jie shortlisted for 2025 OCM Bocas Prize

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Sweet Li Jie by David Dabydeen in the running for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
David Dabydeen's latest novel, Sweet Li Jie has been shortlisted for the Caribbean's biggest literary prize. Books by fifteen authors with roots in eight countries have been shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. Presented annually since 2011, the OCM Bocas Prize is the most coveted award for Caribbean.

The judges praised the novel highly, saying:

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Leeds: Poetry reading by Adalber Salas Hernández

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Date: Tuesday 25 March 2025, 7pm
Location: Alumni Room, School of English, Cavendish Road, University of Leeds
Admission: Free, all welcome

Venezuelan poet Adalber Salas Hernández will be reading (in Spanish and English) from his latest collection Isolario/Islarium, published by Peepal Tree Press, in the Alumni Room in the School of English on Cavendish Road at 7pm on 25 March.

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Look at You in NetGalley UK's Books of the Month, April 2025

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Look at You, the forthcoming novel by Amanda Smyth, was featured in NetGalley UK's Books of the Month, April 2025.

Advance praise

“Delicate, beautiful, intensely moving. Her best yet.” —Claire Adam

“Through a succession of vignettes that quietly build and blossom and a minimalist prose that masterfully illuminates the inner lives of individuals inhabiting complex worlds, Amanda Smyth has created a marvellous tapestry of a novel.” —Chloe Aridjis

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Small Boat makes International Booker longlist

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The International Booker Prize 2025 longlist was announced on Tuesday 25 February 2025 at 2pm (GMT) – and we're pleased to announce that Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix (Small Axes) is on the list. The longlist of 13 books – 11 novels and two collections of short stories – was chosen by the 2025 judging panel, chaired by bestselling Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter.

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Heated Words: Global Majority Responses to Climate (In)Justice

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INSCRIBE: HEATED WORDS - Global Majority Responses to Climate (In)Justice

Sat 15th February & Sat 15th March, 11:00-16:00
Wharf Chambers, Leeds
Led by MAYA CHOWDHRY & SAI MURRAY
Book your tickets now.

This pair of innovative and insightful Inscribe workshops will address climate change, land justice, nature, sustainability, indigenous resilience and ecocide from our global majority perspectives...

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