The International Network of Street Papers (INSP) has launched a new report showing the impact of its journalism training academy, aimed at providing skills training to people directly experiencing homelessness and poverty: www.insp.ngo/articles/ins...

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Beloved children’s author Jacqueline Wilson hopes her Imagine festival will inspire a new generation of readers.

Submissions are open for The Big Idea 2026💡 The best will be shortlisted and presented to delegates at this year's Future of Theatre Conference, where one will be crowned winner 🏆 Enter now 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/future-o...

"I was worried about today because of the dream I told you about..."

ONE WEEK to go. Submissions close 20 February for stories and articles in our next zine. Got something strange, scary, or splendidly unsettling hiding in your drafts folder? Send it our way: tinyurl.com/zinemay26 Illustrators, we need you too

Even in 1995, The Quatermass Experiment was still a relevant cultural reference! Though as Margaret is talking about bubbling vats of suspicious liquid I think you’ll find she meant to say Quatermass II

Praise for our book Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene, @greavesian.bsky.social's definitive exploration of the classic Play for Today from script to screen. Available now from tenacrebooks.co.uk

Working, not begging. Vendors buy the Big Issue for £2.50 and sell it for £5. If you pay for the magazine, please take it. It's dignity for the vendor, and it keeps Big Issue alive.

This week, marking 100 years since the invention of TV, our special edition dives deep into the ways people make, and consume, television, and what lies ahead. Plus: welfare reforms, Richard Linklater, Jacqueline Wilson, and much more. Find your local vendor: https://bit.ly/4c3eLdE

After Manchester vendor Nathan got out of jail, selling The Big Issue helped him to turn his life around for his family and pets. Please help us to change more lives today. To donate, text BINORTH to 70970 to give £5, or go to https://easydonate.org/big-issue-north/binorth Thank you.

The call for nominations for The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for a Monograph of Gothic Criticism 2026 and The Justin D. Edwards Memorial Prize for an Edited Collection of Gothic Criticism 2026 is now open! Submit by March 2nd: www.globalgoth.org/blog/call-fo...

Beloved children’s author Jacqueline Wilson hopes her Imagine festival will inspire a new generation of readers.

Misconceptions aren’t a rare occurrence for those at risk of homelessness. In 2023, YouGov found that 32% of people think that ‘most homeless people have themselves to blame’. Organisations such as @bigissuenorth.bsky.social and INSP are fighting back: www.insp.ngo/articles/liv...

For vendors like Vasile, selling The Big Issue means more than earning an income - it also gives him self-respect and pride in his work. Please help us to change more lives today. To donate, text BINORTH to 70970 to give £5, or go to https://easydonate.org/big-issue-north/binorth Thank you.

What a delight it was getting to interview Jacqueline Wilson - one of my childhood heroes!

Beloved children’s author Jacqueline Wilson hopes her Imagine festival will inspire a new generation of readers.

Join us from 6pm on Thursday 17 February at The Social Hub, Glasgow for the launch of a new report that celebrates the impact of our Changing the Narrative Journalism Training Academy: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/insp-chang...

Join me for The Bonehouse - a ghost story, streamed live on Zoom. Thurs 12 February, 7.15pm. Pay what you feel... thebonehouselive.eventbrite.co.uk

After Leeds vendor Martin escaped an abusive relationship, selling The Big Issue helped him to rebuild his life. Please help us to change more lives today. To donate, text BINORTH to 70970 to give £5, or go to https://easydonate.org/big-issue-north/binorth Thank you.

On request, the deadline for abstract submissions has been extended to 13 February, so you have two more weeks to get yours in! hullgothic.wordpress.com/cfp/

Read about Doctor Who's conception, from first ideas to its troubled early months of production, in Pull to Open, an immersive history by @paul-hayes.bsky.social, available now from tenacrebooks.co.uk.

QUEER FICTION WRITERS' DAY ✍️ 📅 MAR 1 (11-2pm) 📍 Chorlton Library, M21 9PN 🎫 FREE ENTRY www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-fict... Join us for a Queer Fiction workshop led by @cdelull.bsky.social, followed by a panel, readings & Q&A w/ @adambeyoncelowe.bsky.social & another writer TBA.

Planning to attend our conference in July? Don’t forget that you need an active IGA membership! Members get a monthly newsletter, listing on our interactive Goth Map, subscription to @gothicstudies.bsky.social and more, with prices starting at just £6! Join us: www.globalgoth.org/join/

Gothic Studies is recruiting! We seek a new assistant editor 🧛‍♂️

Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely! *to submit an abstract before 21/3

Looking forward to speaking at the 'Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body' in a couple of weeks. And what a gorgeous poster their team has come up with! #bodyhorror #conference wordpre150.wordpress.com

Your generous donations helped us to give Prestwich vendor Joe a card reader and new furniture to help him to turn his life around. Please help us to change more lives today. To donate, text BINORTH to 70970 to give £5, or go to https://easydonate.org/big-issue-north/binorth Thank you.

Tomorrow’s the final day to get your abstract in for this year’s IGA, ‘Gothic Selves/Artificial Others’, to be held at the @universityofhull.bsky.social, UK from 28-31 July. You can find more details at hullgothic.wordpress.com/cfp/

JOIN ME on Thursday 12 February for THE BONEHOUSE - a live-streamed ghost story. Tickets are Pay What You Decide and are available at the link in the image. Book now!

Holly Norris, 73, has lived unsheltered for more than a decade. Her story cuts through one of the most common myths about homelessness: that people living on the streets choose to be there. @denvervoice.bsky.social reports: www.insp.ngo/articles/liv...

Join @gothicstudies.bsky.social as our new Assistant Editor! Deadline Monday 9th March. Annual honorarium of £200. More information in attached image, via the @igagoths.bsky.social newsletter or you can message me and I can send you the text if preferred.

Warnings about resilience in a privatised water system have been issued for decades in the UK. From sewage-choked rivers to water-guzzling AI data centres, we investigate failures, accountability, and possibilities for meaningful reform. Find your local vendor: https://bit.ly/4c3eLdE

@tobyhadoke.bsky.social A lovely tribute to our fallen heroes. I particularly appreciate you mentioning John Baddeley amongst others. Nothing to do with Sci-Fi, but I wanted to highlight his voice work as Top Hat in Tugs and The Colonel and Dennis’s dad in the 90s adaptation of Dennis the Menace.

If you missed us for Darkness & Light on stage last autumn (or if you want to revisit the terror!), join @adamzed.bsky.social for one of the tales, The Bonehouse, told live online. Thurs 12 February, 7.15pm. Tickets are Pay What You Decide. thebonehouselive.eventbrite.co.uk

Enjoyed chatting #bodyhorror to @radiotimes.bsky.social on the occasion of the release of #TheBeauty. www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/ne...

I published This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate in 2014. Lots of serious people explained that we didn't have time to tackle capitalism, climate was too important. Let the market fix it for us. The track record is 12 wasted years and a world on fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/c...

Just out in the Horror Studies book series! www.uwp.co.uk/book/urban-l... #horror #horrorstudies #newbook #urbanlegends @uniwalespress.bsky.social

To mark Monday's centenary, the 1976 BBC documentary The Birth of Television is back, on BBCiPlayer. Today's post characterises the film as 'a curious, in some ways valuable, and yet limited document that fifty years on remains of considerable interest'. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/back-to-the-...

We're seeking an Editorial Assistant Intern. The internship will follow our 2026 anthology publishing from planning to delivery of printed copies. - £5,873 FTC (Mar-Jul 26) at National Living Wage - Home based, pref for location in North of England - Closes: 2 Feb 2026 firststory.org.uk/vacancies/

** Deadline alert: 31 Jan 26 ** Link: newwriters.org.uk/flash-fictio... - Top prize: £1,100 - 10% of entry proceeds donated to charity (funzi.org.uk and @firststory.bsky.social) - 300 words Send us your brilliant flash fiction! #flashfictioncompetition #flashfictioncontent #writingcompetition

I'm excited to share that you can now pre-order your copy of this forthcoming intervention in the Gothic. I have a piece on the Windigo in it! @universitypress.cambridge.org @msvuenglish.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/se/universit...

Deadline for abstracts is 30 January 2026 #CallforPapers #CfP #GothicStudies #Gothic

GREENE DOOR MENTORING SCHEME @greeneandheaton.bsky.social is delighted to be bringing back its Greene Door mentoring scheme for writers from underrepresented backgrounds✍️ 📜Completed manuscript not required. 🗓️Closing date is 27 Mar 2026. More Info: greeneheaton.co.uk/the-greene-d...

The plenary speakers have just been announced! And a reminder that the CfP for the 18th biennial conference of the International #Gothic Association closes on the 31st of January. hullgothic.wordpress.com @igagoths.bsky.social @gothicstudies.bsky.social

On 17 February at 6pm at Glasgow's Social Hub, we will be launching a new report on the impact of our Changing the Narrative Journalism Training Academy, which worked with people with experience of homelessness and poverty. Join us: www.insp.ngo/articles/new...

There are two weeks to get your abstracts in for the International Gothic Association's 18th Biennial Conference at Hull! 28th-31st July 2026 🦇 hullgothic.wordpress.com/cfp/

Discover new paperback editions of some of our bestselling #GothicStudies books, and save *40%* in the BIG January Sale! Don't miss out! Shop now manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/gothic-studi... #Gothic #GothicLiterature #GothicCinema #FilmStudies @mlhouston.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social

Abstracts due in 10 days! Reposting partially to remind myself!

Tories! Trains! The traitor David Cameron! THE BONE TEMPLE has as much to say about Britain, the good, bad and ugly of it all, as 28 YEARS LATER did. I break it down for @fangoria.bsky.social 🦴 www.fangoria.com/28-years-lat...