Now available for preorder, arriving in warehouse 10/02/2026: dukeupress.edu/content-mach... Duke UP gave me a discount code for 30% off paperback preorders: it's E26CNTNT ♥️👍

📣📣Do you write articles for magazines or journals? The deadline to add these to your ALCS account has changed to 31 October. Make sure you log in and submit your eligible articles before this date to ensure you're paid what you're owed in March 2027.

Are you interested in reading and readers? Join us July 7-9 for the SHARPIES, our inaugural global book history festival! Registration is free for SHARP members. events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC... And if you aren't a SHARP member, joining is easy! sharpweb.org/membership/

ICYMI: Children’s enjoyment of reading and daily reading habits have risen for the first time in five years, according to new findings from the @literacy-trust.bsky.social (NLT), but it also found the disadvantage gap was widening. 👇

Stirling’s map offers 6 literary routes tracing the steps of Scotland’s great writers & the sites that inspired them, from the Golden Lion Hotel, where Robert Burns etched his “Stirling Lines” on a window, to the Trossachs of Walter Scott’s “The Lady of the Lake” www.stirling.gov.uk/news/step-in...

Online Caroline included in the BFI Archive - as featured in the New York Times no less www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/t...

For some adults, the problem is not beginning a ‘reading journey’ but rebuilding one that stalled years earlier.

ICYMI. Weirdly (gladly) unpaywalled. www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/i-dont...

Very excited about a very special event: in two weeks, some of the most interesting quantitative work on the literary canon and canon formation comes together in Darmstadt 🧵

Come and work with us at @ouliterature.bsky.social ! We are looking for a lecturer in Romantic Studies to join our wonderful department. Details in the link below: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l... @bars.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @sharpweb.org

Happy to say a walkthrough video for XPT's Online Caroline has been added to the BFI National Archive (alongside other prestigious web oldies like Badger! :) Thanks to BFI Screen Heritage Fund and National Lottery funding. replay.bfi.org.uk/collection/458

What should we make of Hollywood’s turn toward microdramas, as well as TikTok’s heavy investment in them? How is any of this different than Quibi? @krystenstein.bsky.social and I answer those questions in our latest op-ed for The Conversation. theconversation.com/tiktoks-popu...

Barry Island, posted in 1917 to Mrs Harris in St Austell: "Love to all. XXXXX" #PostedInThePast

Amazing PhD Fellow opportunities at The University of Stavanger within Cultural Heritage Tourism. Intangible Popular Culture Tourism (DC5) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

‘The Pitt’, Fandom Squabbles, and "Watching a TV Show Wrong"

If you're interested in applying for an MSCA postdoc with us here at the Center for Digital Narrative, read this and submit a statement of interest before May 1st! We'll get back to you within a week or so after that :) www4.uib.no/en/research/...

My sister got me the greatest birthday present ever!

A virtual reality experience is bringing a nostalgic coming-of-age story from north Wales to life through immersive storytelling

Now on the bbc. Thanks to the @neunion.bsky.social for taking this issue seriously and pledging to oppose censorship and the far right. Vital at all times, and limiting access to books feels especially cruel in the National Year of Reading @literacy-trust.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy Sunday. And not just the 'literary world' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK authors the paperwork for this is actually pretty straightforward and well worth taking 30 minutes to do it and bash it back.

Good morning! Do you fancy doing a short online course about British Children's Literature in the 20th Century or one about Blogging and Writing For Online Audiences? Well, you are in luck my friends, because they are precisely what I teach and I'd love you to join the next intakes. Links below -

A photographer friend of mine is starting a visual and literary project around dementia, memory and time - if anyone would like to join in, it's here: www.becomingunmapped.com