Let us know what you're working on this Monday using the #ModWrite hashtag 📚

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

For the first #ModWrite Monday in February we are pleased to share #TheModernistReview58! Our first issue of 2026 celebrates the 34th Anuual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Check it out here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/t...

🔊 There's 1 week left to apply for open positions at BAMS, including 5 roles on our committee, and 3 postgraduate representative roles. To apply, see here bams.ac.uk. For an idea of what being a PGR Rep involves, see a blog from our reps here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/b...

how i yearn for saint sebastian garlic parmesan monkey bread

It's #ModWrite time! Banish the spectre of Blue Monday and let us know what you're working on this afternoon using the hashtag 📚

Ah we see your Blue Monday and raise you a Moo Blunday

ernest thesiger, i was unfamiliar with your game. if you do anything today, read @markharris.bsky.social short thread about maybe the most perfect pillow to have ever existed (it doesn’t start where you’d think). i’ve been writing thesiger’s name in my PhD research since day one… 🧵

This would be a banger Graham Greene novel.

join @modernistudies.bsky.social! 3 PGR Rep roles are available, see below for a blog post from @lilyvmartin.bsky.social & yours truly about our time as reps so far.

What a wonderful #NWiMS15! So far we've had 2 fascinating panels on identities and ecologies, and I've spent my lunch break going back through the H.D. Scrapbook, thinking about stone, the self, & materialities - our next session! collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2008...

not my emotional support amanda!!!

one assassination custard to go, please

Final call! 🔔 Register to attend New Work in Modernist Studies 15 by 5pm this evening - we have an exciting array of papers covering identities, ecologies, readerships, travel, gossip and silence. Sign up here: forms.gle/BjALZ5Ukapzu... Full programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I don't know anything about D. H. Lawrence's writing, but his delivery company is a joke.

resisting arrest with no name to speak of - for today’s #ModWrite I’m thinking about crime & revenge, with a side of trying not to kill my bonsai tree

Looking to start 2026 off with a dash of modernist inspiration and community? There are three days left to register to join New Work in Modernist Studies 15. Sign up here forms.gle/5qyW6Yzx2imE... by 5pm on Wednesday 7th. Peruse the programme here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

1926: less radio, less reading in bed 2026: MORE please

We're happy to announce that we have extended the deadline to sign up to attend New Work in Modernist Studies 15! Please register by 5pm on Wednesday 7 January. Take a look at how the programme is shaping up below: docs.google.com/document/d/1... We can't wait to see you there!

The final #ModWrite of 2025! 🌟 Don't forget to sign up to attend New Work in Modernist Studies 15 before the end of today: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The CFP deadline for BAMS/MSA is today! Get those abstracts in! 📣

Just up on the Telegraph, a thorough and thoughtful piece about the wrongheaded policy changes at WAC. Thanks to Kate Murphy, @illuminations.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social and @marklewisohn.bsky.social for giving up their time. Gift link here www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/65a1031...

Ring in the new year in style (in modernism), registration is now open for the @modernistudies.bsky.social New Work in Modernist Studies conference ✨ 9 January 2026 ✨

“I went to bed early I *think*” (think is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence, Evelyn)

There's still time to submit your proposals for NWiMS 15, deadline 5pm today! ⏰

🔊 NWiMS Deadline Extended! If you're a PGR or ECR with an idea for a paper on modernist cultures, the deadline for submissions is now 5pm (GMT) Friday 19 December. Full details here: bams.ac.uk/new-work-in-...

as an IVF baby whose mum used to be a dairy farm manager (and skilled 🐄 AI practitioner) I would be listening to this in a heartbeat

One week left to submit your proposals for NWiMS 15! Give yourself the gift of a supportive modernist community in 2026 🎁 📚

same, Roy. (going to start subtitling everything ‘An Extravaganza’ for added immoral zest)

although writing this month has felt like trying to pull myself out of a bog, doctors recommend one (1) Lana Del Rey reference, as a treat (plus accidental Radiohead, for bonus points)

calling all PGRs and ECRs! this is a wonderful forum to share new work on modernisms. please share widely.

this carries over to today’s #ModWrite as i comb through other weird treasures gleaned from the BBC Written Archives Centre, & a related plea for anyone interested in media history and/or archival freedom to sign the petition for unfettered access to these resources: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

📣 BAMS 2026 election is now open! 📌 5 vacant senior positions on the Committee and 2 open positions for PG reps. 📅 Important date: Please send a brief biography and a 250-word proposal to Barbara Cooke ([email protected]) by 9am (GMT) 30 January 2026. bams.ac.uk/2025/11/19/b...

TIL: Roger Moore's first TV role was in the 1949 adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's The Governess. No photos of the production unearthed as yet, so please enjoy his career as a knitwear model instead, from around the same time. Say what you like, Bond could rock a scarf: www.vintag.es/2024/10/roge...

today's #ModWrite is another Ann Quin day, on the weirdness of telephone booths, tape recordings, radios, and unreliable sonic connections (and obsessing over the gloriously weird wig Richard E. Grant wore to play Quin's Berg in the 1989 film 'Killing Dad')

This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead. Trans People Deserve Better. "Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right open.substack.com/pub/wellread...

While it may seem redundant to say “pump it up” after encouraging the listener to “pump up the jam,” the author is underscoring the urgency of pumping up said jam; leaving us to ponder the bleakness of living in a world devoid of it.

what a joy to see Gas Light & Hamilton here (although now how I yearn for the lost version, sadly nowhere to be seen in Hamilton’s remaining archive)

today's #ModWrite is appropriately aqueous, as I write a paper about the waves crashing on the shore and over the self in Ann Quin's novel Berg, ready for the @bristolcms.bsky.social Brat Symposium 🎶 Quin's my favourite reference baby 🎶

in a world that gets more cruel, more uncertain, more divided by the day, there is much to be said for the hope and catharsis of standing in a crowd of people screaming along to a band and a song you all love (i’m too old for this and in dire need of replacement knees today)

you will not regret viewing these Halloween advertisements - especially as the full version of this fun/terrifying jack o’lantern acorn ad claims ‘you will have no trouble at all with THE BOGIE BOOK to plan your decorations, games and stunts’. will someone buy me THE BOGIE BOOK for Halloween?

the way this poem haunted me from secondary school to undergrad entrance exams and beyond. but now, i am healed (Ozzed up in my turn)

“Eventually, the manuscript becomes real and possesses you, making you do terrible things.”

brat is back, baby. maybe one of my favourite academic events of all time, and the first paper I gave in Bristol to the best audience… it’s time for the remix 💚

today’s #ModWrite is a slow return to a UK time zone, but reflecting on the wonderful papers at MSA 25 @moderniststudies.bsky.social & the joy of presenting strategic incompetencies with @becimay.bsky.social, @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social, @jamesreath.bsky.social, Megan Quigley & Jess Payn

today's #ModWrite I'm writing about illustrator Eric Fraser & his depiction of telephone trauma for Hamilton's radio play Money with Menaces. Fraser also invented 'Mr Therm' for British Gas: maybe the ultimate example of cute mascot & terrifying tagline? www.modernillustration.org/archive/mrth...

John Reith of the BBC: ‘a soul in torment’? My piece for the BBC looking back at the publication - 50 years ago this week - of the extraordinary ‘Reith Diaries’

joyous week 1 Austin - not pictured, my new friend Lester the trumpet player, and the huge cache of fascinating Hamilton materials at the Ransom Center

today's #ModWrite is from the Harry Ransom Center, with quirky drawings and unique turns of phrase that bring me closer than ever to Patrick Hamilton - if only his handwriting didn't turn each letter into a homogeneous scrawl, life would be perfect (but then wouldn't that be boring).

We're pleased to announce that the CFP for the TMR Virginia Woolf special issue is now open! 📆Important dates: Expression of interest: September 15th, 2025 Submission due date: October 10th, 2025 Please get in touch with [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you! 🌻