For today's #ModWrite I'm working on Patrick Hamilton's last play, The Man Upstairs. After a failed regional theatre tour, it found a home on BBC television, giving rise to this fabulous headline in The Scotsman - which my fingers refuse to type as anything other than 'Red Meat, Jeeps and Critters'

the people yearn for the Isolator (i am the people)

Wishing everyone a lovely Easter Monday #ModWrite! 🌞🐣 Don't forget to check out #TheModernistReview60: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/t...

For your Easter weekend perusal, we are delighted to share #TheModernistReview60! Our sixtieth, diamond issue celebrates New Work in Modernist Studies 15 with pieces from the conference's speakers. Check it out here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/t...

Let us know what you're working on for #ModWrite today using the hashtag 📚

🧵 Registration for BAMS/MSA 2026 is now open! If you're joining us in Loughborough in July, the BAMS PGR reps are hosting 2 events and we'd love to see you there (full details below). Sign up for both events using the conference's new additional programme form here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Er... so, happy 248th anniversary to this entirely bizarre diary entry from Parson Woodforde

for today's #ModWrite I'm working on the relationship between radio and TV drama, and celebrating this exacting request hidden in the props lists for the BBC's 1967 production of Pinter's A Night Out. Verisimilitude is key, and cheese rolls *must* be soft.

next in the series of pre-printed postcards we should all be ordering... Harold Pinter's Out of Office ☀️

We're so excited to welcome everyone to Loughborough for Weird Modernisms! Registration opens next week and, if you're a grad student or ECR, consider signing up for our workshop ('What's Next - Life and Work After Submission) & informal social event 💃 www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

New ChatGPT analysis of Robert Frost poem just dropped

today's #ModWrite is dedicated to Evelyn Waugh's ear trumpet - although Waugh did suffer from hearing loss, Claud Cockburn's assessment of its function as "an advertisement of his personal attitude, a form of rebuke, and a weapon" is spot on. www.counterpunch.org/2003/04/23/e...

A new week, a fresh #ModWrite Monday! We’d love to see what you’re working on today — share with us using the hashtag 📚📖

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1807

For today’s #ModWrite I’m looking at some (slightly disturbing) 1920s wax mannequins in relation to Mina Loy’s concerns over women, the face, aging, and creativity. These ones are melting in a window on a summers day

I'm spending today's Monday #ModWrite with the latest issue of The Modernist Review - modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/t... Making notes - taking inspiration - writing about my own reflections in response to the edition. Perhaps I will make this a regular thing! #BAMS #modernism

for today's #ModWrite I'm digging around in the archives for some work on Evelyn Waugh and radio, and enjoying the number of times Waugh sent the BBC one of these pre-printed rejection postcards.

just wrote some Punisher x Daredevil fan fic and got this work of art in return, this is my new favourite thing

We are pleased to share #TheModernistReview59 ! Check out our latest issue, exploring a wide range of topics in modernist studies: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6439 we hope you enjoy reading it!

for friday cheer, may i present Evelyn Waugh's rider for a 1960 TV interview: 1 bottle very best dry sherry 1 bottle very best medium sherry 1 bottle very best sweet sherry 1 bottle each brandy, whisky, gin, orange squash, lime juice 1 bowl ice cubes (don't worry there's more...)

📣Call for speakers! The PGR Reps for BAMS and MSA @moderniststudies.bsky.social are chairing a graduate panel, ‘What’s Next - Life and Work After Submission’, at Weird Modernisms. See below for more details. If you are interested in being one of our speakers, please email [email protected].

it's important to subscribe to newsletters so that sometimes they give you something like this in the middle of your workday

in a hellish week for the world, taking to one’s bed to read with a cuddly little fruit (kenneth williams voice) isn’t the worst thing you can do

We are thrilled to introduce our three new PG Reps, @hettiegarnham.bsky.social, @vedikaushal.bsky.social, and @xyzhao.bsky.social! Please give them a very warm welcome! 👏👏

The first #ModWrite Monday in March (try saying that three times fast!). We would love to know what you are working on today - share with us using the hashtag! 🌞🌷

Dancing into the weekend here at BAMS, with an exciting general issue of The Modernist Review on the horizon, and another dedicated to the latest New Work in Modernist Studies conference hot on its heels 💃

evelyn waugh year incoming…

hell.yes.

Welcome back to another #ModWrite Monday! Share what you're working on today using the hashtag 📚

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! 📣