October Rebellion Archives - Writers Rebel

Read: Trafalgar Sq RhapsodySusana Medina

Susana Medina — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 07:53:25 +0000

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

Woodford Roberts — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 08:12:43 +0000

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

toby — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:30:28 +0000

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

toby — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 08:00:41 +0000

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

Louisa Young — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 08:00:14 +0000

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

toby — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 12:55:46 +0000

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

XR Writers Rebel — Sat, 23 May 2020 17:12:06 +0000

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

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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