BACLS Edited Collection Prize 2024 Winners

📢Announcement: We are pleased to announce the newly elected executive committee:

Deadline extended to 13 June! Send us your brilliant work please! 📝📚

doing a retrospective on @c21literature.bsky.social at our @bacls.bsky.social roundtable this week so i thought i’d party like it’s 2009 and make a wordcloud of the journal’s most frequently discussed authors

If you’re at the @bacls.bsky.social conference this week, stop by the @scotunipress.bsky.social stand to find out more about institutional Open Access publishing, and to chat about publishing with SUP

Off to the @bacls.bsky.social conference in Stirling. Looking forward to this one, programme looks good, lots of folks to catch up with & new research to hear about.

En route to Stirling for @bacls.bsky.social! I am making some final tweaks to my paper, but, more than anything, am greatly looking forward discussing all things contemporary lit over the next few days.

Really looking forward to speaking on the opening panel for @bacls.bsky.social later, along with @alicebennett.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and Andy Perluzzo. We'll all be talking about various issues of writing and professionalism!

Heading north for the @bacls.bsky.social conference - very excited for this one! I’ll be giving a paper on Alan Hollinghurst’s recent work later in the week.

Please do stop by the SUP stall at the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) conference @bacls.bsky.social at the University of Stirling. Our Commissioning Editor, @paulmclarke.bsky.social, will be delighted to talk to you about publishing your next book #OpenAccess! 👋

We're at the @bacls.bsky.social conference this week Visit the MUP stand to 📚 Chat with @mlhouston.bsky.social about a new proposal 📚 Explore our #ContemporaryLiterature titles 📚 Discover new #Literature series Not attending? Browse our reading list, manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/06...

Moved to to Stirling for the @bacls.bsky.social What Happens Now 2025 Conference. I'm talking about Ken MacLeod on Thursday. Beautiful campus but the only photo I have taken so far is this pint of Robert the Juice.

In this @jstordaily.bsky.social interview, Peter Sloane discusses his new book "From Rupture to Refuge" (published by @livunipress.bsky.social), which examines contemporary refugee narratives. The book is part of JSTOR’s Path to Open program. Read and explore a free chapter: bit.ly/43E2Ro2

A new article by our own Dr Abs S. Ashley has been published in a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly ('Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory'): 'Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, Cocreation, and Coalitional Resistance'! @ainokash.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...

Deadline extended to 13 June! Send us your brilliant work please! 📝📚

Deadline extended to 13 June! We are particularly looking for nominations for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair, and Publicity Officer. If you have questions about Chair / Vice-Chair, get in touch with @tedilta.bsky.social; for publicity officer @juliaditter.bsky.social can answer your questions.

had a conversation with @melissaschuh.bsky.social years ago about how BACLS (@bacls.bsky.social) sounded like a bakery item and i have finally found out what that is (a sort of profiterole or little choux bun, i think)

Come join our Executive Committee by nominating yourself by 23rd May 2025! We are looking to fill the following positions: Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Membership Secretary Web Administrator Publicity Officer 3 Graduate Student Reps 1 Ordinary Member Details: bacls.org/site/site/me...

🏆📚 The BACLS Monograph Prize, Edited Collection Prize and Postgraduate Essay Prize are now open for submission! Entries are invited for work published in 2024 in the English language on any area of ‘contemporary literary studies’. Deadline: 23 May More details: bacls.org/site/prizes/...

Looking forward to talk about my research on Scottish literature, environmental methodologies, borders and literary form at the Scot Hub next week! 📚⛰️🐔🌊

Come and join us at the BACLS-WHN biennial conference next month!

BACLS WHN 2025: Conference Registration now open! The registration for the BACLS “What Happens Now?” Conference taking place 10th June – 12th June 2025 at Stirling University is now open. Please register via this link: shop.stir.ac.uk/conferences-...

🏆📚 The BACLS Monograph Prize, Edited Collection Prize and Postgraduate Essay Prize are now open for submission! Entries are invited for work published in 2024 in the English language on any area of ‘contemporary literary studies’. Deadline: 23 May More details: bacls.org/site/prizes/...

Come join our Executive Committee by nominating yourself by 23rd May 2025! We are looking to fill the following positions: Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Membership Secretary Web Administrator Publicity Officer 3 Graduate Student Reps 1 Ordinary Member Details: bacls.org/site/site/me...

With our new website, official membership registration is now open at the following rates: Benefits: attend the yearly conference, submit your work for the yearly monograph, postgraduate essay and edited collection prizes, receive monthly newsletters and more! Sign up here: bacls.org/site/join/

📢Our new website is finally live! Visit us at www.bacls.org to: * sign up for membership * apply for the 2025 BACLS Prizes * nominate yourself to become part of the BACLS Executive Committee and much more!

CFP: Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies Irmtraud Huber and I are looking for submissions to our special collection to be published with @openlibhums.bsky.social Abstracts due 31 October, full texts due 31 March '26. Find the full CFP here: shorturl.at/OvPc4

Still plenty of time to apply!

📣 🚨 C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings / @c21literature.bsky.social seeks a new editor! Join a leading journal in 21st-century #LiteraryStudies. Term starts May 2025. 📅 Deadline: 22 April 2025. More info: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/ #C21Literature @bacls.bsky.social

📢Exciting opportunity: @c21literature.bsky.social is seeking a new editor for a three-year term, to start on 19th May 2025 C21, the journal of BACLS, is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication & circulation of 21C writings. More details on the role: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland, is now on Bluesky. Please sign up for the latest ASLE-UKI news. As always, you can also find us, and join us, on our website at www.asle.org.uk. See you soon!

This year's BACLS "What Happens Now" 2025 conference tales place in beautiful Stirling between 10-12th June. Send in your proposal by next Monday, 17 February - because what could be better than Scotland in summer and chats about #C21 literature among this scenery👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/1MQD...

⏰📢EXTENDED DEADLINE: Mon, 17 February 25. If you missed the original deadline, now is your chance to submit a proposal, and to come to beautiful Stirling to present your work on 10–12 June. Information on registration and on PGR/ECR travel bursaries will follow shortly!

I loved reviewing these two, fascinating books for #C21Literature, who sorted me out with hard copies AND open access. The dream. c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1... @bloomsburylit.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social

Hiya BlueSky! We've got a cracking special issue on Ali Smith which features an interview with Ali Smith, published in December 2024: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/901/in.... Check it out, if you haven't already had a chance! #AcademicSky #BookSky #Literature #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social

Call for Papers: British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies – What Happens Now Conference (BACLS-WHN) 10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling Proposal Deadline: Friday, 7 February docs.google.com/forms/d/1MQD...

Very excited that my book is now available to read via Bloomsbury Open Access! 🎉 Can't wait to receive my physical copies 📘 Pre-order for your library and/or read it now here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... @scotlit.bsky.social @timothycbaker.bsky.social @bendoyle.bsky.social

Save the Date! We are pleased to announce that BACLS 2025 will take place from 10-12 June 2025 in Stirling, Scotland. A Call for Papers will be released in the coming weeks on here and via our mailing list.

Unfortunately our website is currently still down but we do have a regular newsletter. If you have any queries about membership, please contact BACLS membership secretary Julia Ditter: [email protected]

Reposting for all these new followers. Hello there! 👋

We're celebrating @PoetryDayUK with our workshop on connecting maths and poetry: check out the recording of the fascinating conversation between @robeastaway and @sarahlovesmaths Link below 😊 PLUS top tips for teachers to use in the classroom! englishassociation.ac.uk/let-me-count...

Know of any #ContLit, #C21 or #English conferences happening in 2025? Let me know pls. I’ll retweet and put a list together for everyone. @bacls.bsky.social is the biennial conference happening in Sept 2025?

You can find a growing #C21Lit starter pack here now! If you want to be on the list or if you have any recommendations of who or which feeds should be on here, DM or comment! go.bsky.app/B4b7Yoq

Funding Opportunity "First Book Grant Fellowship! Deadline: 5 PM GMT (6 PM CET), 1st November 2024. Candidates must have been awarded their PhD and should be within three years of PhD award at the time of application. Share widely!" More info 👇 www.isrf.org/funding-oppo...

You can find a growing #C21Lit starter pack here now! If you want to be on the list or if you have any recommendations of who or which feeds should be on here, DM or comment! go.bsky.app/B4b7Yoq

Inspired by @elinetabak.bsky.social's initative for a starter pack on #envlit: bsky.app/starter-pack... Is there a starter pack out there already on #C21Literature ? Should we start one? Let me know (reply or DM) if you want to be on it and send recommendations for names and feeds!

Registration now open for ‘A word after a word after a word is power’: The Hulu Adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-2025): A one-day multidisciplinary symposium www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

📢 We are delighted to announce the winners of this year's BACLS prizes!

CFP: ‘A word after a word after a word is power’: The Hulu Adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-2025): A one-day multidisciplinary symposium. Deadline Extended to 31 July 2024 Full CfP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Birmingham Institute of Media and English is looking for a Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature (Eight-month maternity cover): jobs.bcu.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...