Coming soon! The 404 Ink Bursary for small presses and accompanying crowdfunder will launch in mid-March. This will give away at least £3,000 to small presses - we hope to raise more to pay it forward to even more people.

✨ New on the SGSAH PhD Blog ✨ 2025 EARTH Scholar, Miriam Sentler, explores Shetland’s energy history through archival re-enactment & her project 'The Moving Energy Theatre' - testing 'performing the archive' in oil & wind landscapes. 🔗 Read the full blog: sgsahblog.com/2026/03/03/t...

Writer friends! A great writer-in-residence scheme to visit and stay in Thailand later this year… Run by the university I just visited in Bangkok, who are brilliant hosts Details here, deadline 25 March, please do share drive.google.com/file/d/1rKrO...

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UK reviewers: The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance is now on NetGalley UK! My debut fantasy novel featuring a historian desperate to document a hero — even if he has to push them up a dragon-infested mountain himself... Publishing 7th July with Del Rey ⚔️✍️ www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

This afternoon I have been writing about this delightful Thai snack, which was (almost) too cute to eat

Writer friends! A great writer-in-residence scheme to visit and stay in Thailand later this year… Run by the university I just visited in Bangkok, who are brilliant hosts Details here, deadline 25 March, please do share drive.google.com/file/d/1rKrO...

Ahead of the EARTH Scholarships Impact Symposium this Earth Day, the latest SGSAH blog reflects on the programme and introduces a new series highlighting scholars from the 2023–2025 cohorts. 🌏 Read it here: sgsahblog.com/2026/02/24/i...

This time next week (ie 3 March)! bsky.app/profile/sgsa...

It's transcribing season! How do you spell blamange ... oh ... blancmange!!

Gaza this Ramadan, 2026

Red wine gums, heartbreak in Palestine, and the recharge of a writing residency... Palestinian artist & practice-based PhD researcher Leena Nammari @leenafalasteeniyeh.bsky.social reflects on this and more in the latest SGSAH blog — @covepark.bsky.social edition: ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2026/02/17/m...

Hey pals. We finished our book, Publisher Not Found, and it'll be in our hands in a couple of weeks. If you'd like a copy, you can order it now and have it first: www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl... More soon!

The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance is included in the Waterstones pre-order sale! 25% off with the code FEB26 Cosy fantasy inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons www.waterstones.com/book/the-inn...

Looking forward to speaking at this @sgsah.bsky.social event on Developing an Environment Impact Assessment soon...

Great (seconded) role for someone in Scottish HE to lead on EDI activity at @sgsah.bsky.social ...

Call for papers! INSCRIPTION 7 (out 2027) will be all about BLANKS. It will be (as ever) a BEAUTIFUL and MAXIMAL object. Send us your ideas! Historical / theoretical / creative / creative-critical -- or some strange blend. First step: 400-word proposal + brief CV by 1 April 2026. CFP attached.

Great (seconded) role for someone in Scottish HE to lead on EDI activity at @sgsah.bsky.social ...

More power to your pipes, Jack!

We're so thrilled to be able to support this symposium through one our lightning grants! Go global book history!📚🌏

Had a brilliant time visiting Thailand and Kasetsart University (Bangkok) - including a @sharpweb.org sponsored symposium on Connecting Thailand and the Anglophone World through Book Cultures, and visits to the National Library of Thailand and some exceptional canapes...

Devastatingly sad. Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support

How is post @sgsah.bsky.social life going, you may ask?

Love this - though the section on Strip the Willow needs a cautionary warning for Achilles tendons… (in my @sgsah.bsky.social experience)

Very much enjoyed reading @jencalleja.bsky.social’s fun and thought-provoking FAIR while on a work* trip abroad; speaking to colleagues - among other things - of translations into and out of Thai *yes there is also pool time

Behold, the Orient Express cocktail (Bangkok)

New Featured Researcher: Anand Ranjan, @anandranjan.bsky.social A PhD researcher @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social exploring Digital Hinduism — how apps, platforms & ritual labour are reshaping devotional life and sacred experience in India. ➡️ Read Anand’s full feature: sgsahresearch.com/featured-res...

Le tout dernier numéro de Mémoires du livre est maintenant disponible. Dirigé par Sarah Brouillette et Julien Lefort-Favreau, il s'intitule « Politiques de la visibilité et de la découvrabilité dans l’édition contemporaine ». Vous pouvez le consulter à l'adresse suivante : www.erudit.org/.../2....

Looking forward to the symposium ‘Connecting Thailand and the Anglophone World Through Book Cultures’ at Kasetsart University, Bangkok tomorrow…

I co-edited this bilingual issue of Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture w/ @julienlf.bsky.social (an excellent collaborator). It's all open access.

It's Byron's birthday today but you want to read about the woman he impregnated at 18, who was Mary Shelley's stepsister, who became a governess in Russia, who owned her own apartment in Paris, who was fictionalised by Henry James in The Aspern Papers...

Honoured to be in this issue of @memoiresdulivre.bsky.social on visibility & publishing, eds @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social & @julienlf.bsky.social Me & @michaelakralova.bsky.social wrote about publishing & translation, focusing on the sexy topic of metadata :-) www.erudit.org/en/journals/...

1 of the 3 journalists killed in the Israeli airstrike on a clearly marked humanitarian vehicle in central Gaza early Wed. was Abed Shaat, a veteran freelance cameraman who worked closely with CBS News for years & regularly filed footage from Gaza, CBS News said on Wed. ➤ Shaat, 30, has recently...

Great visit today with @bethdriscoll.bsky.social to PUBAT (Thai Publishers & Booksellers Association pubat.or.th/about-eng/) to hear about the industry in Thailand (and offer a copy of @blairesquiscoll.bsky.social’s The Frankfurt Kabuff)

Courier coverage of UCU Stirling ballot opening today incl UCU branch quote: "...not seen any justification for further jobs losses at Stirling..." #StopTheCuts #NoCompulsoryRedundancies www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/education...

Join us in July for the SHARPIES (a global, book history festival!). The program is now live and features interviews, conversations, social events, author talks, book clubs, and more! sharpweb.org/conferences/...

What does it mean to lead with care, complexity, and voice in the Arts & Humanities? In our latest SGSAH blog, Jelena Sofronijevic sits down with our new Director, Maria Fusco, to explore these questions —and more. Read here: sgsahblog.com/2026/01/13/i...

Denis Robertson Sullivan was my neighbour, a great friend and ally. He’ll be so much missed…. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/257...

2026 we are celebrating 225 years of the Burns Supper. Now @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social wants your help to contribute to our global map of Burns celebrations. Send us your videos, photos and details of how you celebrate Burns Night: gla.ac/BurnsSupper225 #BurnsSupper225

To celebrate the imminent exhibition of Mary Queen of Scots' last letter at Perth Museum, I wrote an article for @uk.theconversation.com about my PhD research into Mary's writing - have a read for my top 5 things you should know! ⬇️ theconversation.com/mary-queen-o...

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!! Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People 11-13 February, over three afternoons (2-7pm CET / 2-7pm CET / 12-5pm CET) Free, online, all welcome. Please share with interested colleagues and students! indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/

Re-sharing this great blog from our former Director, @clairesquires.bsky.social, published on @sahavoice.bsky.social — well worth a read if you missed it ⤵️

Made a not very competent/somewhat explosive galette des rois for Twelfth Night (too tightly packed/not sufficiently sealed) … but it does contain these king and queen ‘fèves’ - according to my mum from ‘at least’ her Bonnemaman Jullien ie early 20c

If you happen to be in Thailand in the last two weeks of January, come and hear @bethdriscoll.bsky.social & I give the lectures 'The Influence of Readers on the Global Publishing Industry' and 'Publishing Controversies: When Book Cultures Go Bad' - full details (inc QR code for sign-up) in the image

To be honest word of my life bsky.app/profile/merr...

A huge thanks to @bookyvikki.bsky.social for including The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance on this list of 2026 Scottish debuts to look out for! ♥️ and what incredible company!! www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

To celebrate the new year A THREAD of successful female Scottish writers. Here's too us. Let's start here 👇 Hugely popular Mary Brunton's second novel, Self Discipline inspired Jane Austen's Emma. She sold TONS of books. I 💕 her /1

Israeli police arrest Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus at Christmas party

Seasonal stuffing (with bay leaf & kumquat topping)

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.