Monique Roffey Archives - Writers Rebel

Monique Roffey’s Letter to Kathy Gyngell of the GWPF

Monique Roffey — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 07:00:56 +0000

12th September, 2022 Dear Kathy Gyngell, I’m a well-known novelist and co-founder of Writers Rebel and I’m writing to you because Steve Baker announced last week that he’d been given a role in Liz Truss’s new government as junior minister in the Northern Ireland office. A day later, he stepped down from his role as [...]

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Big Oil Is the PoisonMonique Roffey

Monique Roffey — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 15:43:21 +0000

What do we mean by ‘Big Oil’ anyway? It’s the umbrella term for BP, Chevron, Eni, ExxonMobil, Shell, and Total, the world’s six largest and richest publicly-traded oil and natural gas producers. Then there’s OPEC. An intergovernmental organisation set up in 1960 by five of the world’s largest oil producing countries, it co-ordinates the [...]

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Read: Q&A with Diana McCaulayDiana McCaulay and Monique Roffey

Diana McCaulay — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:07:33 +0000

Diana McCaulay, Jamaican environmentalist and author of Daylight Come, (Peepal Tree Press), spoke with Trinidadian author and Writers Rebel co-founder, Monique Roffey. They talked about about ‘Goatillas’, a carbon Neutral Caribbean, deadly heat, and Climate Change as bedfellow with our Colonial past. Diana, congratulations on publishing such a relevant book for our [...]

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Listen: Planning A Literary Rebellion with Jonathan Franzen

Rebel Writers Podcast — Wed, 20 May 2020 12:32:25 +0000

For our first Writers Rebel Podcast, we talked to the team behind the October Rebellion reading marathon shortly the event – James Miller (Lost Boys and Sunshine State), Monique Roffey (whose novel Archipelago won the OCM Bocas Award for Caribbean Literature), and Chloe Aridjis, (who wrote Book of Clouds, and has been awarded a Guggenheim [...]

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