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Louis Barabbas @louisbarabbas.bsky.social · Aug 26

A playlist of studio demos and workshop recordings from the first draft of Wildfire Season, an existential musical about highland firefighters.

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Wildfire Season demos - YouTube

A selection of tracks from the first draft of new musical Wildfire Season (book, music and lyrics by Louis Barabbas, movement direction by Emily Jane Boyle),...

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks so much, Louis! It’s been a wonderful surprise. X

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · 21h

Thrilled to be the UK winner of The World of Interiors x Montblanc writing competition! You can read my essay here:

www.worldofinteriors.com/story/when-t...

Iqbal Hussain wins The World of Interiors x Montblanc Writing Competition 2025

Iqbal Hussain is the UK winner of The World of Interiors Writing Competition 2025, created in collaboration with Montblanc. His winning piece, When the Streets Fell Silent is written in response to th...

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SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social · Aug 20

My publisher just sent me a video of the Little Rebels shortlist in the window of radical booksellers Housmans, including Cottonopolis!

www.instagram.com/reel/DNkmpTL...

As well as being in the window display (!), the book is also available to order from Housmans:
housmans.com/product/cott...

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · 8d

This is amazing ! Huge congratulations.

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks so much, Louie! I know how busy you are so thank you for making time for Zubair and Gran. And I’m like you - I’d be using time travel to do purely superfluous adventures. Family wouldn’t get a look-in!

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 8d

I just finished a proof of this brilliant book! Witty, poignant and thought-provoking. (Also made me realise I am much shallower than the main character Zubair and would be going back in time to ride dinosaurs rather than help my family)

Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · 14d

I’ve been waiting a while to share this! Thank you @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @waterstoneskids.bsky.social

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you so much, Tim! That’s really kind of you. And that trailer even made me gasp!

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · 8d

Honoured to have an essay in Bread Alone, a ground-breaking and important anthology from @indienovella.bsky.social featuring 32 working-class writers, collated and edited by award-winning journalist Kate Pascal. Pub: 9 March 2026. Pre-order: t.co/9AwOtMjLXC

Cover of book, with highlighted line in blue: "we often hear about towns decimated by the closure of coal pits or steelworks; cotton towns, with their largely brown workforce, didn't generate the same headlines - or sympathies. Words Beyond Walls, Iqbal Hussain."

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Poltergeist Halloweezou 🎃 @polisloizou.bsky.social · Sep 1

GASLIGHT
by Patrick Hamilton

22-27 September
Lace Market Theatre
Nottingham

Directed by me!

🎟️ lacemarkettheatre.co.uk/LaceMarketTh...

📸 Kathryn Edwards

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · 14d

I’ve been waiting a while to share this! Thank you @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social @waterstoneskids.bsky.social

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Nerys Anthony @nerys-a.bsky.social · 15d

Thrilled to come home to a proof of @ihussainwriter.bsky.social new novel #TheNightIBorrowedTime

Can’t wait to get stuck in - thank you Iqbal & Puffin ❤️

Photo of the cover of a book. Yellow plain cover. Iqbal Hussain. The night I borrowed time. Puffin press.

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · 15d

Fantastic! I can’t wait for you to dive in. Xx

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Gary Panton @garypanton.co.uk · Aug 14

Ta-da! My new book, The Notwitches: Prison Break, is out NOW! Huge thanks to all at @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social, Dotty Sutton for her brilliant artwork and my wonderful agent @rachelpmann.bsky.social. And of course big thanks to everyone who buys it, which you can do here: garypanton.co.uk/books/

The cover of The Notwitches Prison Break, with an 'OUT NOW!' icon and a hand reaching into the image to grab the book.

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you so much! I’m so glad you enjoyed. This is lovely to see.

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📚Ashley Thorpe📚 @ashleythorpe.bsky.social · Sep 3

A moving, funny and resonant middle grade debut. Big fan of @ihussainwriter.bsky.social's writing and I know you will be too! The Night I Borrowed Time comes out February 2026.

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Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social · Jul 22

It's a good while since I posted about my book, but if you're somehow not getting enough dystopian drama from the news, maybe go check it out?!

It's got a country sliding into authoritarianism, banned books, and the Authorisation Bureau disappearing people...

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Promo slide for The Disappeared by Amy Lord, which show genre tropes including dual POV, Orwellian narrative, authoritarian control, urban decay, banned books, near future

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · Sep 1

Please come. This will be amazing

Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · Aug 31

Coming up Tuesday. A rare opportunity to hear from the extraordinary Australian writer
Melissa Lucashenko at @waterstones.bsky.social Gower Street
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An Evening with Melissa Lucashenko in conversation with Sunny Singh | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Melissa Lucashenko in conversation with Sunny Singh today.

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · Aug 28

Please consider voting “Northern Boy” for the Readers’ Choice Awards. Deadline 1 Sep! Link: bit.ly/DBAReadersCh...

Image of book cover with strapline across it saying it’s in the Longlist for the Diverse Book Awards

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Tom Griffiths @checkemoutbooks.bsky.social · Aug 24

Fancy another alternate reads poster? There’s a wealth of brilliant children’s books around memories and/or intergenerational relationships so instead of reading Grandpa’s Great Escape, here are some alternatives. Which other books would you include? #kidlituk

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is wonderful to see! Thank you so much, Sophie

Sophie Anderson @sophieanderson.bsky.social · Aug 12

The Night I Borrowed Time by @ihussainwriter.bsky.social is spectacular ✨ beautifully woven, full of warmth, wit and wisdom, and characters who live on long after the last page is turned - such perfect descriptions of sibling relationships! @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · Aug 8

Unbound/Boundless might be gone, but our love for our books remains! Just two weeks to go until I'm at @thecommonpress.bsky.social bookshop with José Daniel Alvior and Zahra Barri talking all things literary and love. Come support us if you can. Thu 21 Aug, 7pm:

www.outsavvy.com/event/28654/...

poster with photos of the three authors, with rainbow splashes in each corner

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Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social · Aug 7

It's finally happening. Writers' HQ is heading to LONDON!

Walthamstow Writers' Retreat is launching on Saturday 9 August and will be hosted by the AMAZING and INCREDIBLE and RIDICULOUSLY TALENTED @ihussainwriter.bsky.social.

Come write with us! writershq.co.uk/creative-wri...

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Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thank you so much, Alex! It’s a shocking, though not unexpected, end to what has been a shambolic year with Unbound/Boundless. If you wrote the plot as a fictional tale no-one would believe it.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 1

There are so SO many Unbound books that I personally want to buy and read as soon as the authors will get money from them and this is one of the top ones.

Please can another publisher pick this up ASAP

Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social · Aug 1

After yesterday’s amazing news of being longlisted for the Diverse Book Awards, today the flip side. The publisher Boundless, who took over from Unbound, has folded. As disappointing as this is to me and their other authors, nothing can take away from the joy that was - and is - “Northern Boy”.

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