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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 11/08/2026

Are you taking part in the Edinburgh Festivals this year? Want to create a solidarity statement, raise awareness, or make a call to action but unsure how to go about it? We've made a support pack to help! Download here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wmEC...

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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

+ this video was made to go alongside the library's profile: www.youtube.com/shorts/cNkPZ...

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Gaza's Phoenix Library Rises

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 11/09/2025

Voting for the Society of Authors Management Committee elections is NOW OPEN until Wednesday 22 October! 🗳️ Here's some more info on the four amazing candidates Fossil Free Books organisers have decided to collectively endorse 👉

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 05/09/2025

Today @tribunemagazine.bsky.social publishes a vitally important, highly personal and urgently necessary piece by Yara Rodrigues Fowler on the history of the FFB campaigning around literary festivals:

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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Please read & share the scholarship story of Gazan poet Haia, ❗️and how you can take one action now to help her and the other scholars trapped in Gaza by UK govt red tape ❗️

When Out-Spoken Press held a MAP fundraiser back in October 2023, we featured the poetry of Haia Mohammed, a young poet in Gaza who had recently sent us some of her work.
Over the course of the unfolding genocide we stayed in touch. She even joined us in the Poetry Room amid all the devastation and upheaval she was experiencing just to work on her craft.

Over the course of the year Haia continued to write on what she was experiencing.
In March 2025, she messaged me saying she was unsure if she would survive the genocide and wanted her poems to defy borders, hold witness and act in service of her people being brutally silenced.

We published her pamphlet, The Age of Olive Trees, in May with all proceeds going directly to her and her family. At the same time, Goldsmiths University in London opened their Palestinian Scholarships programme, offering four Palestinians full scholarships to pursue their studies at the university.
Haia messaged to say she wanted to apply for the scholarship, to come to London and write poetry that held at its centre a testimony to the violent oppression and the endurance of the Palestinian people.

Haia prepared her application under relentless bombardment, mass killings, starvation, and illness. Out-Spoken Press, together with a small committed team to whom I'm forever indebted, supported her with the tools to finish her submission.
The pamphlet received critical acclaim in The Guardian and has continued to win the hearts of readers from all over the world in the space of a few months.

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 21/07/2025

Fossil Free Books affirms our solidarity with Palestinian poet Fady Joudah and Palestinian novelist Randa Jarrar who have pulled out of their events at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival due to the programming of two Israeli writers, Anshel Pfeffer and genocide denier Etgar Keret.

A spokesperson for EIBF said,
"At this critical and distressing time, we respect and acknowledge the right of authors to choose which festival programmes to participate in and work with all of our authors to support them to take part."

By holding tight to the flawed notion that debating both sides can lead to meaningful, reparative change, the festival has put the onus on its Palestinian attendees to decide whether or not to appear.

As of July 14th, Etgar Keret's event was subsequently cancelled.

Fossil Free Books' primary aim as a collective is to build worker power across the books industry. By organising as workers last year, we were able to pressure literary festivals into re-evaluating their sponsorship models.

We welcome this change and reiterate our invitation for a collaboration between festivals and Fossil Free Books to further explore ethical funding models that are aligned with the values of the book workers that make these festivals possible.

Fossil Free Books is not calling for any collective action relating to EIBF or any other literary festival this year.

However, we encourage all festival participants and attendees to consider how you can best assert your solidarity with Palestine and the ongoing fight for trans and disability justice.

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 30/05/2025

Keir Starmer must act to secure the release from prison in Egypt of British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah. #FreeAlaa Time is pressing as his mother, Laila Soueif's health is deteriorating.

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 28/05/2025

We stand in solidarity with our trans siblings and are united in our anger at the Supreme Court ruling & EHRC update. Trans, non-binary and intersex people are facing exclusion from basic aspects of public life. Please read this thread that contains recommendations and calls to action.

Black text on background of Trans Solidarity Flag: Fossil Free Books stands in solidarity with our trans siblings. We are united in our anger at the Supreme Court ruling and EHRC update.

Rather than providing “clarity”, this ruling and the EHRC interim update are causing confusion, uncertainty and fear.

They have also given strength to the authoritarian, sexist campaign for the persecution and ostracism of trans women.

Trans, non-binary and intersex people – including bookworkers – are facing exclusion from basic aspects of public life.

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 30/04/2025

📢 Every author who left the SoA belongs in their union! 🚪 You and hundreds of other authors have left the Society of Authors over the past year. 🚫 It has consistently worked to alienate you for your divestment actions. 🇵🇸 It has demonised you for demanding union solidarity with Palestine. [1]

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 30/04/2025

🗣️ Every woman writer belongs in their union! 🤦🏻‍♀️ With a gender pay gap between male and female authors of 41.4%, women writers experienced a 21% drop in their income between 2017 and 2020.

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 30/04/2025

📣 Every queer writer belongs in their union!

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 29/04/2025

📢 Every disabled writer belongs in their union! 📈 Disabled people in the UK face a higher cost of living. With author pay at an all-time low, the industry has never felt more excluding. ‼️ From cuts to state support, lack of accommodations and inaccessible events, disabled writers deserve better.

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 28/04/2025

📢 Every poet belongs in their union! 💸 2024 was a record-breaking year for poetry book sales. Despite this giving poets more power in the market, so few make money from sales. 💪 Being a poet today remains precarious, and you deserve a trade union that will better serve you as a worker. [1]

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 27/04/2025

📢 Every illustrator belongs in their union! ✏️ Illustrators across the UK are already losing work to AI. With the government increasingly prioritising the interests of AI companies, important voices of opposition aren’t being heard. [1]

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 25/04/2025

📢 Every translator belongs in their union! 🛑 The Society of Authors recently targeted Meta for its use of pirated books (including works in translation) to train its AI. 🤐 But why does it remain silent when major publishing houses announce their intentions to use AI to translate their books? [1]

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 24/04/2025

📢 Every working class writer belongs in their union! 📚 In a survey by The Bookseller a staggering 78% of working-class authors said their background had hindered their career. [1] www.thebookseller.com/news/survey-...

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 23/04/2025

📢 Every writer of colour belongs in their union! 💸 Research commissioned by ALCS in 2022 shows that pay for writers of colour is 51% lower than for their white counterparts (in real terms). [1] www.alcs.co.uk/news/why-wri...

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 22/04/2025

Every writer against genocide belongs in their union. The Society of Authors does not stand for a free Palestine. Not yet. Amid Israel’s destruction of libraries, bookshops, printing presses and publishing houses in Gaza, the SoA’s lack of solidarity is driving members to leave the union. [1]

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 16/04/2025

Every climate justice writer belongs in their union. The Society of Authors claims to be committed to sustainability. But climate justice is about more than sustainable sources of paper – it’s about power. In calling for individual authors to hold their publishers to account, the SoA is… [1]

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Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

📣PSA: translations, authors, illustrators 📣 Have you joined your union, the @societyofauthors.bsky.social? Join before weds 30th April to vote in this year's elections. Claim £50 towards membership from @fossilfreebooks.org's mutual aid fund: opencollective.com/fossil-free-...

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 04/04/2025

The Society of Authors needs to change. But it won’t without you. Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections. Writers, translators & illustrators face huge challenges right now… (1/5)

Writers, translators and illustrators face huge challenges right now including: falling earnings, the threat of AI, the sector’s complicity in genocide and fossil fuel extraction, challenges to free speech.

Can you resist these threats? Yes! But only if you have a member-led union that truly represents you.

Fossil Free Books recommends that writers, translators and illustrators join the Society of Authors. With its wealth of resources and powerful industry connections, it has great potential – but without you it can’t channel that potential into meaningful action.

Recent successes at the 2024 AGM and EGM have already shown that you have the power to use its existing democratic processes to make it the healthy, bold trade union that you need and deserve.

The only way to create a fairer, more sustainable industry is to create it together. Your union won’t change without you – and the first step is to join.

If you need support with your union fees, you can claim £50 through our Open Collective fund (link in post).

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It’s why I’m petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorships – for too long oil and gas companies have had largely unlimited £££ to greenwash their filthy reputations for government and the public . We say no more . petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship

Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...

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Titilayo @titiiilayo.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Join ussss 💥💥🎉🎉 @fossilfreebooks.org

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Nadia Henderson @nadiahenderson.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I'll be joining online for this 🙌 having organised alongside incredible writers and humans over the last several months, I'm feeling driven and hopeful about what else we can bring about this year.

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 11/01/2025

If you're a bookworker (in any capacity) then you're invited to join our Strategy Day for our pro-climate, pro-Palestine movement! 🍉FFB Strategy Day 📚 @fossilfreebooks.org 📅 Sat 18 Jan, 10-4 🌍 online / Edinburgh / London 🖊️registration: linktr.ee/fossilfreebooks Register by 5pm this Wed 15th.

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Books Shelf GIF

Alt: Book shelf GIF feaeturing shelves of books organised by colour in a rainbow effect.

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 07/01/2025

Hey folks👋🏾, just to say we’re still organising within the books industry and aren’t going anywhere. Help us shape the future of our collective action. Details below for our upcoming Strategy Day with links included!

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 17/12/2024

Start your new year by organising to create the world as you wish it to be ✨ Join the Fossil Free Books Strategy Day, happening on Saturday 18th January 10am - 4pm GMT in Edinburgh, London and online.

Green text on white background: Organise with us in 2025! Fossil Free Books' Strategy Day. When? Saturday 18th January, 10am-4pm GMT. Where? Edinburgh, London and Online.

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Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org · 16/12/2024

Hello Bluesky, who are we and what do we want? 👋🏽👋🏾👋🏿 Well, let us introduce ourselves. We are a collective of workers across all areas of the books and publishing industry. For over a year, we have been organising in solidarity with Palestine and against fossil fuel finance and investment.

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