With these final days of annual leave, nurturing the mind and body along the Tissington Trail, Ashbourne, UK.

Our final Guest of Honour will be announced next week for Edge-Lit next week, but we already have so much talent confirmed for the event - a great day out ahead for writers and readers of horror, fantasy and science-fiction! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel... #Derby #Derbyshire

Rage in Caribbean Women’s Writing. Nicole King and Ana Nenadović. This Element is curently free online. Read it now ! #feminism #racism #gender

An excellent panel. @ruthahnert.bsky.social’s visual mapping was particularly inspiring for my own research. Thank you! #SHARPIES26 @sharpweb.org

Ruthie Block’s keynote has been a particular standout of #SHARPIES26!

If you're an up-and-coming bibliographer, I hope you'll apply for @bibsocamer.bsky.social New Scholars Program. Apps due Sept 16. As a former New Scholar myself, I can attest to how great this program was for supporting my research! bibsocamer.org/fellowships-...

I hope everyone facing forced AI adoption knows about this wonderful set of resources from AAUP www.aaup.org/issues-highe...

Feeling very excited: arrived in Mainz, Germany, for the #bythebook11 #publishing conference, being held at @unimainz.bsky.social on 24-25 July.

#OpenDay at @derbyuni.bsky.social! Such a privilege to communicate the wonders of our BA in Creative Writing and Publishing degree to prospective students! #creativewriting #publishing

📚 ✨ The SHARP Annual Bibliography 2025 is now live! ✨ 📚 Read and download it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Bibliography #Authorship #Reading #Publishing #Research

🔊Announcing: The SHARP News “SHARP in the Classroom” Editor We are delighted to welcome Anushmita Mohanty as our incoming “SHARP in the Classroom” editor. Anushmita is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Welcome Anushmita! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/ab...

📚 NEW BOOK REVIEWS 📚 1/6 Richard L. Saunders reviews: Derek W. Black, _Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy_ (Yale University Press, 2025). Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BlackHistory #LiteracyAndRace #Literacy #BookHistory

It’s not too late to apply! @sharpnews.bsky.social #bookhistory #publishing #pedagogy

A message we often do not see. #academiclife

Reunion event to celebrate 10 years of #Publishing at @derbyuni.bsky.social, organised by colleagues @catmitchell17.bsky.social & David Barker. So proud of our inspiring past and present students; so proud and privileged to be part of such a passionate, exemplary team. A moment to cherish.

So pleased to be given the opportunity by ‘TEXT’ to review ‘Composite City’, an almanac of Australian goodness published by Rose Michael’s Arcade Publications and produced by RMIT University’s student-led Bowen Street Press. textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/1614...

Attending the Northern Publishers’ Fair at Manchester Central Library today, learning more about all the excellent #publishing endeavours of diverse publishers, small & large. Had the absolute pleasure to meet and chat with Becca Parkinson from Manchester Uni Press. Such a wonderful day. #thenorth

Hi! It's over two months until our online global book history festival and we already have 177 registrants! Want to see what all the fuss is about? Join SHARP and register now (click through the link to see program details). events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

One reason the AI industry (something separate though complicatedly enmeshed with AI research) invokes such hostile responses is that it has failed to produce legible public good while loudly proclaiming the likelihood of annihilating jobs in the service of extreme wealth.

Always enjoy visiting London to see family, but equally enjoy returning home to Derby. Writing while waiting for my bus. #amwriting #academiclife

Booked! Very exciting! #thenorth #academicpublishing

Excited to be back working with Nottingham Writers Studio this May, where I'll be taking a look at WRITING URBAN FANTASY with this workshop session! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-ur... #urbanfantasy #writing #writers #writingworkshop #writingworkshops #onlineworkshop #onlineworkshops

Horror can be delivered in many different ways, and in my SUBGENRES OF HORROR course I'll be exploring everything from the subtle and understated to the in-your-face! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/subgenres-... #horror #writing #writers #horrorwriting #horrorwriters #horrorfiction #horrorcourse

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CFP Reminder! A gentle reminder to consider submitting a proposal to @derbyuni.bsky.social hybrid #publishing conference to be held on 1-2 September. Deadline is 27 February 2026.

I had the absolute pleasure of being invited by Robyn Charlesworth of Happily Ever Bookshop, and recent MA in Publishing graduate at @derbyuni.bsky.social, to delight in, and unpack, all things #romance and #publishing. Thank you, Robyn. I had so much fun! m.youtube.com/watch?v=y7TV...

My general experience is that many books that have intimidating titles and reputations are nonetheless quite a pleasure to read, especially if compared to something like an End User License Agreement.

An excellent semester start for Publishing MA students enrolled in Print & Digital Production. Using playdough, students made cuneiform tablets. A fun, creative way to consider the complex processes of designing & laying out texts, & how indebted modern practice is to the past. @derbyuni.bsky.social

The Publishing Programme at @derbyuni.bsky.social invites submissions to its hybrid conference, 'Publishing for All in an Age of Uncertainty' on 1–2 September 2026. The deadline for submission of proposals is 27 February 2026. Please send submissions to: [email protected].

So blessed as an Australian researcher at @derbyuni.bsky.social to be able to benefit from the symposium ‘Knowlege is Human: The Information Ecosystem in the Age of AI’ at @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Focusing on concepts of trusted voices & information integrity. wikimedia.org.uk/2025/10/know...

Kafka definitely knew how to craft an effective hook: ‘When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach.’ #metamorphosis #amreading

Our Creative Writing and Publishing team caught up yesterday to plan for the forthcoming academic year. Privileged to work with, and benefit from, such awesome colleagues. Photo credit: @catmitchell17.bsky.social. @derbyuni.bsky.social

Second #journalling and #bookbinding workshop with @findyourownformjournalling at @scarthinbooks.bsky.social. So awesome. Looking forward to applying what I’m learning and practising to my #teaching and #research.

Beautiful day for #Clearing. @derbyuni.bsky.social

Delighted to contribute my research, with a line-up of incredible speakers, at the forthcoming Innovations in #Publishing Symposium to be hosted by the Innovations in Publishing Research Hub. This free online event is taking place on 16 September. www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/inn...

Raymond Williams (1958): ‘[We are] a nation, not a firm.’

I’m over the moon to be at Belper Book Fair on Sunday 10th August with my dear friend Tom Mead as well as the wonderful Bob Moulder and Moy McCrory. Thank you for having us Dormouse Books 🙏🏻❤️ We’ll be running a book stall from 11-4 and I’ll also be reading some poems at 11:30 at Number 28 Belper…

Many of today’s beloved authors started their journey by writing fanfiction on sites such as Wattpad and Archive of Our Own 📚💻✨ We’re exploring some of the authors that kickstarted their writing careers through fanfic in our latest issue, check it out here! www.thepublishingpost.com/post/wattpad...

Asking questions like this is problematic: framing the need to rectify systemic gender imbalance in #publishing as male loss - very manosphere. www.thebookseller.com/news/news/ar...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a publisher in possession of a famous backlist must be in want of a special edition – even if it costs £925. Sales and sensibility: Jane Austen sees best sales in 15 years as industry celebrates 250th birthday👇

Mistakes were made in #earlymodern print shops. However, such #misprints, as they were called, rarely survived in our collections. Here you see a misprint from 1642 Germany. The image was printed upside down, and the proof-reader crossed the print to make sure this is not to be used. #bookhistory

Visited Derby Museums this afternoon to see the Joseph Wright ‘Life on Paper’ exhibition today. Really fascinating to see Wright’s line drawings that showcase his artistic brilliance from age 11. So much to see - will need to visit again before exhibition ends in September. Very much recommend it.

Excellent argument for tax-free arts prizes from Alice Grundy. It’s appalling that you don’t pay tax for a lottery win but you do for a literary prize.

Attended my first bookbinding & journalling workshop by Gareth Hills at @scarthinbooks.bsky.social this evening. A really enjoyable start to a series of workshops that I hope will benefit not only my personal wellbeing, but also my creative practice and teaching at @derbyuni.bsky.social.

An especially good one today on the humanities in Oz. Every word true. graemeturner.org/2025/07/20/w...

So appreciate the vibrant Arts culture in Derby. Tonight, we enjoyed the delights of ‘Love’s Labours Lost’, performed open air at Elvaston Castle by Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company.

Penguin Random House is looking for new queer voices and is currently taking unagented submissions for fiction and nonfiction by LGBTQ+ writers. www.instagram.com/p/DI9PlxCRp38/ #BookSky #QueerBookSky #LGBTQBooks #WritingCommunity 🌈📚

April 21 #editorial #cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social in The Globe and Mail. It's inside an #ElSalvador #prison, where several prisoners, including #LadyLiberty, stand close to a wall, heads down in despair. A #guard says: #Trump is sending us everybody he doesn't want.

Magnificent view of Ladybower Reservoir in Upper Derwent Valley.