October Rebellion Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/october-rebellion/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:11:06 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://i0.wp.com/writersrebel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/index-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 October Rebellion Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/october-rebellion/ 32 32 184391167 Read: Trafalgar Sq RhapsodySusana Medina https://writersrebel.com/october/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 07:53:25 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=2037   To James ‘Iggy’ Fox   We are nature. We are science. We turn grief into action. We protest and we sing and we play and we dance. We do so for life. We are mourning the earth. We are mourning us. We are re-inventing the city. We are the grief-stricken carnival spirit that marks [...]

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Read: Rebel diary: for my childrenWoodford Roberts https://writersrebel.com/read-this-is-for-my-children/ Thu, 20 Aug 2020 08:12:43 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=1592   Rebel diary — October 2019 This is for my children — and your children too. Love like you have never loved before. Rebel for life. It doesn’t take many people to take a bridge and we took it quickly. But we didn’t have infrastructure, the police had taken it all the day before in a raid on a nearby [...]

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Read: ARE YOU HERE FOR THIS?Salena Godden https://writersrebel.com/read-are-you-here-for-this/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:30:28 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=1112 ARE YOU HERE FOR THIS? < RANT WRITTEN TO BE READ LOUD  WRITERS REBELLION, TRAFALGAR SQUARE, OCTOBER 2019 > THIS IS THE WRITERS REBELLION CALLING! I AM HERE FOR THIS! ARE YOU HERE FOR THIS? CALLING ALL MY BOOKISH COMRADES. ALL THE INKY-FINGERED INTROVERTS, THE BESPECTACLED PEN PUSHERS, CALLING ALL WRITERS AND READERS, BOOK LOVERS [...]

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Long Read: Regina vs MeJay Griffiths https://writersrebel.com/read-regina-vs-me/ Thu, 11 Jun 2020 08:00:41 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=1110 Nine months later, and for the first time in my life, I am on trial, for breaching a ‘Section 14’ order intended to clear rebels off the streets.  In the dock, I take the oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Telling the truth because other people haven’t. The [...]

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Read: The RedsLouisa Young https://writersrebel.com/the-reds/ Thu, 11 Jun 2020 08:00:14 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=317 Individualism and spending time alone is base-line normal for writers. We visit friends, we eat with people, we go to parties. But we work alone; get things going alone; get things done alone. Well, alone with our imaginary friends. Sometimes this makes me sad. I look at the long lists of credits at the end [...]

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Watch: Elegy for a Country’s SeasonsZadie Smith https://writersrebel.com/zadie-smith/ Tue, 02 Jun 2020 12:55:46 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=977 As part of the October 2019 Reading Marathon, Zadie Smith – one of the UK’s most important writers – recorded this exclusive and beautiful contribution for us. [...]

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Watch: Writers Marathon Reading https://writersrebel.com/watch/ Sat, 23 May 2020 17:12:06 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=905 The People of the River Rise reading, hosted by Culture Declares, took place during lockdown on 20 May 2020. It was organised by Paul Ewen and hosted by Toby Litt. The writers who took part were Alfie, Chloe Aridjis, Jeff Goodell, Monique Roffey, Susana Medina, Edward Platt, Clare Morrall, Anoucha Grose, Jessica Townsend, Josh Appignanesi, [...]

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Listen: Planning A Literary Rebellion with Jonathan Franzen https://writersrebel.com/podcast-1/ Wed, 20 May 2020 12:32:25 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=784 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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