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@moniqueroffey.bsky.social
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Writer, FRSL, Professor Contemporary Fiction, ManMet Uni, activist, Costa Prize Book of the Year 2020. The Mermaid of Black Conch. New novel, Passiontide, out in paperback 15 May 2025. moniqueroffey.com

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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Happy New Year. I’m mani padme hum. How peace gets done #activism #peace
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Margret Atwood at The Barbican on Monday night. A living legend. Wise, funny, political. What a body of work. Great evening. #womenwhowrite #legend @barbican.bsky.social
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Congratulations NYC, Congratulations Mr Mamdani. #hope #democracy #socialism
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Not the first time Trump trashed a public building. Total cost of January 6: $2.7 billion.
March 24, 2025
Mr. Thomas E. Austin
Architect of the Capitol
SB-15 U.S. Capitol
U.S. Capitol Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Mr. Austin:
On his first day in office, despite warnings from senior Republicans, President Trump
issued a blanket pardon to the more than 1,500 people charged in the deadly January 6, 2021,
insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.1 While these sentences can be erased with the stroke of a pen,
the damage done that day is not so easily repaired. The Capitol complex withstood nearly
millions of dollars in property damage from the insurrectionists who entered the Capitol by force
and in their wake “left windows broken, doors splintered, and paintings stained with pepper
spray and tear gas.”2 The total cost of the insurrection to the taxpayers is estimated to be $2.7
billion, and that does not account for the lives lost due to the violence that day.3 Thanks to
President Trump’s reckless pardons, convicted rioters can not only walk freely, but they also are
no longer required to pay their court-ordered restitutions, much of which was owed directly to
your office.
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Hey! Comes to Newhaven this Saturday, 2-6 pm. It’s packed with good things and it’s free! #writingcommunity
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Cultural healing and culture shift last night at Wembley stadium. #FreePalestine
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This woman! #bravery
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We did it ! Hey! Festival was launched last weekend as part of Art Bomb, Doncaster. #liveliterature
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Pleased to announce our inaugural Hey! Festival in collaboration with Doncaster Art Bomb. A Hard Art writer led initiative, where live lit meets activism. #Hey! #activism #wordsmatter
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Thankyou ! #mermaids
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The context for right-wing populist attacks on clean energy? Clean energy is poised to wipe out the power of their corporate and petrostate sponsors.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/07/2025
The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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Forthwrite @forthwrite.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
open.spotify.com/episode/3Qi3... @moniqueroffey.bsky.social
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MONIQUE ROFFEY
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Chatting about writing and about Passiontide. Thankyou @forthwrite.bsky.social #activism
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Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 14/07/2025
Today’s State of the Climate address to Parliament from @ed-miliband.bsky.social is a welcome step – radical truth-telling is exactly what we need.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/07/2025
‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action, online early from our next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I salute these people. Brave people. #Gazagenocide
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Thankyou judges, honoured! #caricon #Passiontide
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Thrilled to be a finalist! #Caricon
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Great evening last night @vaginamuseum.bsky.social with these two great women. Tantra teacher Jan Day and writer Marianne Power. #modernlove
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Best news ever!
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
It's called Gaza: Doctors Under Attack And you can watch it here: www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
A forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
@palaction.bsky.social is not a terrorist group. #FreePalestine
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Perfectly expressed.
"I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. 

Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. 

That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. 

If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after"

Sahar Delijani,
Iranian author
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Almost sold out! Join us @vaginamuseum.bsky.social 8 July. #love #desire
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Join us. I’ll be chatting to legendary tantra teacher Jan Day as well as author Marianne Power @vaginamuseum.bsky.social 8 July #tantra #women #Sexuality
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
£6.4 k raised in ten days. Be a founder not just a funder. #Hey! Please donate.
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Dr Emma K Pey @ekpey.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Thank you to @moniqueroffey.bsky.social for the wonderful conversation last night at Essex Book Festival. My mind was buzzing afterwards and I’m still thinking! Thanks to the Maldon Library staff who were fabulous hosts as usual 💕 Good luck with the crowd funding the Hey! Festival is going to be👌
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Thanks for having me last night, Maldon Library. #books #femicide #protest #passiontide
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Looking forward to chatting to you this evening, Emma at Maldon Library. #Passiontide
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Today, children are taught about history’s worst crimes against humanity. We ask how the world could have possibly let them happen. Future history books will shame those who could have stopped the genocide in Gaza, but chose to enable atrocity after atrocity instead.
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
www.gofundme.com/f/hey-festiv... Please share and donate. This is a Hard Art, writer led, initiative. We plan to pilot three pop up micro festivals this year in places festivals do not go. #feteofBritain
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Donate to Hey! Festival Be a founder not just a funder, organized by Monique Roffey
Hey! Festivals are a writer-led Hard Art initiative, and we are planning t… Monique Roffey needs your support for Hey! Festival Be a founder not just a funder
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
380 writers say no to genocide. #gazagenocide
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Legends. Margret, Polly and Alison at the launch last week of Lost and Found, a A-Z of neglected Anglophone Caribbean writers. Landmark work. #Caribbean #literature
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This is Alaa’s mum. She is on hunger strike. Free her son. @englishpen.bsky.social #freealaa
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Free Alaa now. @englishpen.bsky.social @etmansky.bsky.social #writingcommunity #freespeech
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Fossil Free London @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🚨 BREAKING: We were outside Shell’s HQ with Amnesty UK & Justice 4 Nigeria demanding justice for the Niger Delta. 70 years of oil spills. Polluted health, land & water. Devastated lives. Shell won’t escape accountability. They must #CleanUpPayUP
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Glorious.
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Join us tomorrow, 6 pm Downing street with @englishpen.bsky.social #freealaa
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Join me and others tomorrow 6 pm Downing St. #freealaa
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This brave woman is in Gaza. I’ve signed up for this workshop. Will you? Please share. #Gaza
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Paperback publication day is today. Join us! @thewansteadtap.bsky.social
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The Nakba is ongoing. #freePalestine
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The Wanstead Tap @thewansteadtap.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Tonight! @moniqueroffey.bsky.social @newhambookshop.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1254429324...
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Passiontide: Monique Roffey in conversation with Joanna Pocock
A very special evening with award winning authors Monique Roffey and Joanna Pocock for the paperback launch of Passiontide.
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I’ll be at @thewansteadtap.bsky.social on Thursday 15 May, 7.30pm evening to celebrate the paperback edition of Passiontide. Join us! #literature #Caribbean #books #women
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We’re making protest banners from bedspreads. DM me if you e got any to repurpose. #protest #imagination
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I’ll be launching the paperback edition of Passiontide at The Wanstead Tap, East London on 15 May. Join me! #rebellion #uprising #women #femicide
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
May Day. Resistance, fight back. #resistdespair
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moniqueroffey.bsky.social @moniqueroffey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Goodbye Just Stop Oil. I wore my T Shirt to a live event in your honour @just-stopoil.bsky.social #protest #juststopoil #liveliterature
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