Had a lovely chat this afternoon with @jessnorledge.bsky.social for our next episode on The Language of Dystopia. Looking forward to sharing with you soon. In the meantime there's still a couple of days left to enter our competition to win a copy of Wastelands and Wonderlands. Details in episode 22.

For any Lang Litters (or even Lit Lingers) out there, we've got a special 2-4-1 offer going on this course in 2 weeks. Come and get a load of anthology-based goodness for the A level with me, @jessnorledge.bsky.social and @stockwell.bsky.social www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/51e5...

Teaching A-level Lang/Lit and can’t get down to one of our London workshops? Well, EMC goes north for this one! www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/c84c...

Our summer course programme is available online, with a phenomenal 28 courses to choose from. Such is the infinite variety of our subject! Book early to secure your place (and help us with our planning!) www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/

As part of our ongoing work with the Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit team (aka @jessnorledge.bsky.social & @stockwell.bsky.social), we are running this @engmediacentre.bsky.social course in London in May. It's all about anthology teaching for A Level Lang Lit: www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/51e5...

25 quid for food, drink and 13 great pieces of scholarship? You’d be mad not to! Cheaper than staying at home (or you CAN stay at home and join us online) Teaching Lit in the Lang Classroom 30 March: Uni of Nottingham tinyurl.com/teachlanglit

Programme now up! Come and join us on 30th March - register on-campus (and we’ll feed you) or online (and we won’t). tinyurl.com/teachlanglit

Final reminder about our Nottingham symposium on Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom, 30 March 2026 (fully hybrid event) Submission deadline is tomorrow, so there's still time to prepare your abstract. For full details, see the CfP below. We hope many of you will be able to join us!

I am currently in Athens. Oranges are growing in the street. But fear not, I will be back in equally fructiferous Nottingham for this. If you teach literature in a language classroom, come and join me there at the end of March!

Using or teaching literature in the language classroom? Come and talk to us in Nottingham: 30th March

Our Spring 2026 webinar packages are available for purchase! Buy yours now to secure access to all the webinars coming up this term for yourself and your whole department: buff.ly/vtsFPnq

Only a few places left for this. Come along and have a mince pie* with us? (*mince pies may or may not be served on this day)

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: New Approaches to Teaching A Level Lang/Lit Discover new approaches to teaching A Level English Language and Literature on this in-person course with guest presenters Peter Stockwell and Jessica Norledge. Book by: 8am on 11th December buff.ly/98SX5KB

Absolutely delighted to be back at the @engmediacentre.bsky.social for a fun-filled day of Literary Linguistics! Today we’re joined by teachers across the country for our ‘Starting to Teach A level LangLit’ course. Such fun!

And we are continuing our successful (and fun) Lang Lit collaboration with University of Nottingham stylistics gurus @stockwell.bsky.social and @jessnorledge.bsky.social with this course in December and a re-run of our Starting to Teach course in November. www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/2f9b...

Did you know that when you purchase any of these key EMC anthologies, you will also be able to access a pack of free downloadable resources specific to each one? Find out more: buff.ly/bqbiZWG

🎉✨ NEW ISSUE OUT!! 🎉✨ ☀️ Fafnir's issue 1/2025 welcomes midsummer with a blazing selection of cutting-edge speculative fiction research, essays, book reviews, and a prefatory by Marek Oziewicz. Check out the full issue for free here!: fafnir.journal.fi Happy reading!

EMC CPD Online: Starting to Teach A Level English Language "Gave me confidence for teaching A Level Language for the first time and lots of ideas for lessons and resources." Book by: 8am on 5th September buff.ly/OP10Ly3

The Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit is here at @natefeed.bsky.social. Swing by our stall in the atrium to find out more (and snag a fancy highlighter!)

Ready to go here at @natefeed.bsky.social with the Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit

Are you dreaming of those cooler autumn/winter days? Why not plan ahead and book some LangLit CPD? Starting to teach A-Level Language and Literature | 04/11/25 (N.B. This is a repeat course. If you’re looking for something new, check out the next post!) www.englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/8a8f...

A big thank you to everyone who has applied for 25/26 EMC Associate Teacher posts. As ever we're hugely impressed by the quality of teaching expertise out there + are only sorry we can't work with all of you. Deadline is 9am tomorrow morning www.englishandmedia.co.uk/projects/emc...

Busy proofing our 25/26 catalogue, which details everything we do at EMC. Very proud that our small team has so much reach - and grateful to all the teachers who put their trust in our work!

LATEST emagazine A taster of the literary + linguistic treats inside the April 2025 edition. Resubscriptions for 25/26 now available www.englishandmedia.co.uk/emc-magazine...

TFW it's open mic night down at the local but you didn't bring the casio with you

We're now onto Louise Mullany who has the best title today: "Grow a pair! (Im)politeness, banter and insults in everyday talk".

We've been given a secret mission. I'm not sure if I should be sharing this with you. I'm typing this looking over my shoulder for robot enforcers.

Keeping the lang/lit flame alive - well done to organisers @stockwell.bsky.social @jessnorledge.bsky.social @englangblog.bsky.social

Today is our conference for students of English Lang/Lit at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social To the StylisticsMobile!

Our oracy conference on Friday was a huge success. If you'd like to experience an EMC teacher conference as part of your CPD this year, then we're running one about inclusion + English in June englishandmedia.co.uk/courses/4536...

Last chance to book your A-level English students in for our Lang/Lit conference on 1st April here in Nottingham. This is the venue englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/...

Happy #WorldBookDay (at least in the UK!) If you want to read some of the classics with the help of computer-assisted methods give the #CLiC app a whirl! clic.bham.ac.uk #Digitalhumanities

A great conference that prioritises the interplay of language and literature rather than treating them as separate subjects. If I were 16 again, I think this is the AL I would opt for!

Calling all schools within reach of Nottingham Fab line-up for conference aimed at students studying combined Lang + Lit A Level, including acclaimed novelist @jonmcgregor.bsky.social @englangblog.bsky.social @stockwell.bsky.social @jessnorledge.bsky.social englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/...

In association with @engmediacentre.bsky.social - come to Nottingham on April Fool’s Day (yes, really) for the UK’s first ever student conference for A-level Lang/Lit. Cheap as chips! And a great line up. Book here: www.englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/...

Initial symposium to book submission: 10 months. One reviewer said the timescale was ‘wild’ and they were not wrong! Thanks to our brilliant contributors. Out with @edinburghup.bsky.social later in the year

Funded PhD opportunity at Lancaster: 'The sharing of personal lived experience by peer support workers working in mental health services in NHS, social care and third sector organisations.' Open to applicants with a background in Linguistics as well as Psychology www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Happy to share my review of 'Vocabulary, Corpus and Language Teaching', just out in ELT Journal. #artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #elt academic.oup.com/eltj/advance...

In the prefatory to our latest issue, Susan Mandala follows the threads of speculative fiction woven through her life and reflects on how a genre of imagination nevertheless deeply entwines with the reality we inhabit. ⬇️ fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...

What a line up! What an A Level! Student conference for combined Lang/Lit taking place in Nottingham later this term @stockwell.bsky.social @jessnorledge.bsky.social @englangblog.bsky.social www.englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/...

Aaannnnndddd..... because we also like to cross the (artificial) divide between Lang and Lit (via the magical bridge of stylistics), we have a piece by @jessnorledge.bsky.social on analysing the language of prose fiction.

We have @lucyjones.bsky.social on Words We Live By - Language & LGBTQ+ Lives.

The latest @engmediacentre.bsky.social issue of emagazine is out and it features some excellent A Level English Language pieces...

📢 Fafnir's new issue (1-2/2024) is here to kick off the year with an exciting collection of content!! You can access it for free here: fafnir.journal.fi/issue/view/1... Here’s to a year filled with inspiring reads! Happy New Year and happy reading from all of us at Fafnir!

This is very exciting news... Our first ever English Lang Lit A Level conference for students in collaboration with @stockwell.bsky.social & @jessnorledge.bsky.social of University of Nottingham and the Nottingham Stylistics toolkit. It's a great line-up. www.englishandmedia.co.uk/conferences/...

We've talked about boulomaic modality, Harry Potter, Dracula & Tess of the d'Urbervilles already and we haven't even had our first coffee break yet. It must be an @engmediacentre.bsky.social course for Lang Lit with @jessnorledge.bsky.social & @stockwell.bsky.social

📣 Call for Reviews: Non-Fiction Books 📣 If a book interests you, contact our reviews editor, Jari Käkelä, via email: reviews[at]finfar.org. If you haven’t worked with Jari before, please include a brief introduction of your qualifications and explain why you’d like to review the book.

We still have places available for this A Level Lang Lit course - the first of the new year.

EMC CPD Face-to-Face: Reading Fictional Minds: Viewpoints & Character in English Lang Lit (15.1.25) Enrich your teaching of character, viewpoint and perspective for the combined Lang & Lit A level. Book by 8.00AM on 13 Jan tinyurl.com/59tvbwy2

Hi everyone! Here is a little introduction to our journal. Fafnir is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal published online twice a year. We publish texts ranging from peer-reviewed research articles to short overviews and book reviews in the field of science fiction and fantasy research.