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  1. also Ray Antrobus Wes Brown Dzifa Benson Christopher Simpson Stacy Makishi Phillip Wells all in one day bit.ly/JZSnOV
  2. Keats House has fab festival prog, lots of it free! Saturday = Renaissance One, Laila Sumpton, Anjan Saha John Hegley bit.ly/JZSnOV
  3. #parnassus Fri 29 June Seamus Heaney, Wole Soyinka in special event with Jo Shapcott & Simon Armitage bit.ly/IY74mW @southbankcentre
  4. The UK’s largest gathering of world poets at the Southbank Centre’s Poetry Parnassus 26 June – 1 July fb.me/1trqWQAkf
  5. Ahhhhh London especially London's #writers
  6. Modern Day Griots on @BBCRadio4 feat. some our favourites @gaylene_g @InuaEllams on how the West African Griot... fb.me/1iO9X4jQ4
  7. Debut novelist Madeline Miller wins Orange Prize for Fiction gu.com/p/38xtz/tw via @guardian
  8. @JohnHegley and @AoifeMannix at Holloway Arts Fest hollowayartsfestival.co.uk/?location_id=1…
  9. Opp for UK artists of Nigerian descent to develop new piece with £3K. Deadline 18 June bit.ly/JyQ7Ei @stratfordeast #30NigeriaHouse
  10. A sad end to a much loved library... guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/29…
  11. "Good short stories should be a glimpse into a much bigger world"
  12. Short Story Big Picture has just kicked off. Excited to hear what the excellent panel has to say!