Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!

"Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff and students" - imagining a lot of staff there pretty upset about, but also it says much about OpenAI's education strategy that it's targeted Oxford as its first institutional capture in the UK www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

'And that underlying rhythm probably sounds quite familiar: it’s like a heartbeat. Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter because it sounds very close to natural, heart-felt speech': argh, this kind of thing (from Shakespeare's Globe website) drives me mad: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/10-reasons...

100 ISSUES OLD TODAY! The new issue of The Dublin Review features work by Nathan O’Donnell, Laura Morris, Tara McEvoy, Molly McCloskey, Conor Dawson, alongside the mighty Colm Tóibín who also appeared in our very first issue 25 years ago. NUMBER 100 is out now in bookshops, or at thedublinreview.com

Virginia Woolf’s childhood summers in St. Ives shaped her. Join our 4-day deep dive into The Waves in Cornwall. 28 Sept–1 Oct. Book your place for this immersive literary study HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #TheWaves #ModernistLiterature #LiteraryFiction #StIves

Post-feudalism 🤝 neo-feudalism

Virginia Woolf quote - as fitting today as it was when she wrote it.

"As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the sufferings of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flowers and air cushions; be as decent as we possibly can." -Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"

This is a new documentary about what librarians in the US are going through right now as they unite to combat book banning. It's due for release in UK cinemas on 26 Sept. I don't know when it'll be streamed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykll...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Who's afraid of Jane Harrison? I wrote about the Cambridge classicist who inspired Virginia Woolf.

Virginia Woolf fans, already celebrating the 100th birthday of MRS. D., will appreciate this new scholarly edition, inexpensive at full price and currently on sale. www.nyrb.com/products/mrs...

The website is live and the call for papers is out for the 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, with its theme of "Woolf and Sound." bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/15/c... #VirginiaWoolf #callforpapers #woolf2026

Breaking: Irish broadcaster RTE says that Ireland will not participate in Eurovision next year if Israel does. "RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza." about.rte.ie/2025/09/11/r...

Newly discovered Virginia Woolf proofs of "Orlando," "The Waves" and "Common Reader: Second Series" are now available online, thanks to Edward Mendelson and @columbiauniversity.bsky.social bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/07/n... #VirginiaWoolf

Jonty chats to English literary critic and Virginia Woolf biographer, Hermione Lee, in this must-listen episode for Woolf fans and all classic literature lovers alike! The best part? You can tune in now, wherever you get your podcasts 🎧 #virginiawoolf #biography #writingcommunity

We’re excited to share #TheModernistReview57, our first autumn issue! It includes seven reviews on diverse topics in modernist studies. Go check it out! we hope you enjoy reading: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/t...

We’re delighted to announce a CFP for a Virginia Woolf special issue of TMR, marking the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Please see the details below:

Here's a Call for Papers for the one-day Mrs Dalloway Symposium on Oct. 31 at the Old Burgh School at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. bloggingwoolf.org/2025/07/22/c... #VirginiaWoolf

Part 4 of our Virginia Woolf mini-series is out now! This week, we unpack Woolf’s essay, A Room of One’s Own, and: 📚 Her vision for shared cultural progress 🧠 Her push for mental androgyny 🏠 What a “room of one’s own” actually entails 🎧 Listen now! #virginiawoolf #aroomofonesown #feminist

Elizabeth Bowen features in a 1970 BBC documentary currently available to watch on the BBC iPlayer. Omnibus - Virginia Woolf: A Night's Darkness, A Day's Sail 'I know she was a genius.' EB on VW www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

feeling like an alien lately because i’m not interested in Points. i’m sick of being told to Earn Points. leave me alone

This was on BBC4 last night. Have to say, that's quite the list of contributors (probably because it was made in 1970).

Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social has organised a wonderful symposium on Modernist Editing at the University of Reading. Do come! There are a few bursaries for PGR and precarious ECRs … research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b... @modernistudies.bsky.social

It's only fitting that we send/post/gather flowers in tribute and memoriam to Elisa Kay Sparks, Virginia Woolf scholar, writer, artist, friend who specialized in Woolf flowers and gardens. @cupress.bsky.social #VirginiaWoolf bloggingwoolf.org/2025/08/17/f...

Portrait of Julia Jackson, mother of Virginia Woolf, by pioneering Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. #WorldPhotographyDay2025

Quentin Bell by Tara Heinemann, 1981 "One of the astonishments of his life was that, surrounded by flamboyance and bizarre behavior, he seemed to survive intact and eventually became a grand old man of Bloomsbury lore." - Mel Gussow His 2-vol. biography of his aunt Virginia Woolf, won many prizes.

Virginia Woolf called them ‘moments of non-being’ – the ordinary repetitions that lack the sharp details of indelible experiences. They may feel mundane, yet it’s within these rhythms that a quieter, sturdier happiness takes root

That time Virginia Woolf (left) dressed up as an Abyssinian royal to play a prank on the Royal Navy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadno...

In her diary, Virginia Woolf left behind the most truthful record of what a writer’s life is actually like.

In today's #ModWrite, I am reflecting on Austen's 'Persuasion' (1817): 'A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes'. This resonates with Woolf's 'On Being Ill' (1926), showing how illness can lead to profound insights. How do you see this theme playing out across literary genres & eras?

I am starting a new podcast called Instant Classics with Charlotte Higgins. About guess what? open.spotify.com/episode/0tyH...

Would an 'Unsexiest Woman Alive' list be published today? Maybe not - but body-shaming is definitely back | Arwa Mahdawi

Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?

In today's #ModWrite, Virginia Woolf redefines the audibility of servants in Mrs Dalloway, revealing how class and hierarchy shape their voices and their silence. #WoolfandSound #VirginiaWoolf #LiteraryAnalysis #ServitudeinLiterature

"Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack." Virginia Woolf, "Street Haunting: A London Adventure" #books #booksky #usedbooks #bookstores #virginiawoolf

Book cover designs by Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell (c.1930) #WomensArt

My latest article 'Murdering Mr Darcy' takes the treatment of Jane Austen's iconic character in the TV adaptation of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' as a provocative lens with which to examine gender identity and social order. #PrideandPrejudice #MrDarcy #MargaretAtwood #JaneAusten #LiteraryAnalysis

Congrats to Lois Burke on the publication of her new book, Late-Victorian Girls and Their Manuscript Magazines! 🎉 The book examines how girls' manuscript magazine cultures shaped children's journalism + early feminist discourse. Thanks for #SharingYourNews, Lois! rs4vp.org/new-book-vic...

This just in! Plans are being made for the 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf and Sound. Get the details at bloggingwoolf.org/2025/08/03/n... #VirginiaWoolf

Thanks @rs4vp.org for sharing this. Any questions, email me & Clare Walker Gore, co-editors of the special issue. I look forward to lots more Oliphant!

It's gonna be great y'all!!!

Would anyone like to review this book for the BSLS: Symptomatic Subjects; Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England by Julie Orlemanski (www.pennpress.org/978081225090...). Get in touch at [email protected] if so.

Last month, readers and scholars of #VirginiaWoolf gathered in London and Brighton for the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf #WoolfandDissidence. Check out some of the faces at the opening and closing receptions. bloggingwoolf.org/2025/08/06/w...

Good afternoon! My wonderful co-editors and I are so excited as we approach the publication date for The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives. Just wanted to share that the volume is now available for preorder: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

Woolf reflects on how women’s historic role mirroring male identity influence stories about war and conquest. “Without that power, the earth would still be swamp and jungle. The glories of all our wars would be unknown.” How might we rethink these ‘glories’ through a feminist lens? Thoughts?

Atrocious from Netanyahu, who presumably won’t stop until every living Palestinian has been bombed, starved, displaced or murdered. War crimes in plain sight, as Starmer et al look on and whisper the world’s feeblest condemnations. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams