The Carrying Stream is a new podcast for Scottish words and ideas, hosted by IASSL EC member Paul Malgrati. The first episode, now available on Spotify and Apple Podcast, features poet and Gaelic translator Taylor Strickland; Scots writer and activist Billy Kay; and Burns scholar Moira Hansen.

New Year, New-ish Call for Papers Calling all #Bronte scholars, #poetry specialists, #Romantic & #Victorian -ists: please consider submitting to our Brontës and Poetry special issue of Brontë Studies - #creative approaches encouraged 🖤 Abstracts: 1 April Manuscripts: 15 December Please RT

To celebrate the new year A THREAD of successful female Scottish writers. Here's too us. Let's start here 👇 Hugely popular Mary Brunton's second novel, Self Discipline inspired Jane Austen's Emma. She sold TONS of books. I 💕 her /1

Rounding off 2025, we are pleased to announce CRBS Research Associate @drcleoocy.bsky.social as our next conference speaker, presenting on 'The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention'. Join us @uofgarc.bsky.social on 17th January 2026! #BurnsSupper225

Music and song are central to CRBS conferences, and it gives us huge pleasure to announce Ellie Beaton, 2025 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician, as the musical act for our #BurnsSupper225 conference. Learn more: www.elliebeaton.co.uk/& book tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for... 🎶

Delighted to see this new special issue of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy on ‘The Philosophical Writings of Scottish Women’ in print. I had a lot of fun writing this short piece on Susan Ferrier earlier this year - now free to read @edinburghup.bsky.social: www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/....

#BurnsSupper225 #LivingHeritage

New survey by the @glasgowburns.bsky.social - how do you celebrate Burns Night? Feel free to respond and share!

We’re delighted to officially launch our global survey for ‘The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention’! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌍 Please share far and wide - we can’t wait to hear and see what you’re eating, drinking, singing, dancing, wearing, and reciting! forms.office.com/e/ksbivWh7zs

The Society currently invites applications for its David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People. The Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj Closing date: Friday 6 March 2026 #Skystorians

It’s been a fast five years! Scottish Literary Review is a pleasure to co-edit with the brilliant @scottlyall.bsky.social and it’s a real joy to see Scottish literary scholarship thriving throughout the world. Follow the links below to read or subscribe to SLR via @asls.org.uk 👇 #ScottishLiterature

Breaking news from @glasgowburns.bsky.social and the perfect way to round off this year! Thrilled to be working on this new project celebrating The Burns Supper x Living Heritage - check out our global survey here: forms.office.com/e/ksbivWh7zs We cannot wait to hear from you! #BurnsSupper225 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

CfP 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @ssnci.bsky.social annual conference in June 2026. Deadline 1 Feb 2026! For details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

Do any Gothic people have access to a digital copy of the following text? Anon, _Phantoms of the cloister, or, The mysterious manuscript : a novel : in three volumes_, 1795. I'd be so grateful if anyone had this, and could email digital copies of the volumes to me.

One of many fabulous speakers lined up for the next @glasgowburns.bsky.social conference in January. Stay tuned for further announcements in the coming weeks! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🥃 🐭

What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research? I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...

We have two vacancies on the Council of the *British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies*: 1. Postgraduate Representative 2. Communications Officer Happy to answer any questions about @bsecs.bsky.social Council life! More info here: www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

CfP: Networks of Antiquity, University of Copenhagen, 7-8th May 2026 Abstracts due 31st January! More info on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6237

And for our first post it's a pleasure to announce a brand new prize for outstanding scholarship in our field. Nominations are now open for the 2026 Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize: ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...

Tickets are now available for the annual conference of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow, to be held on 17 January 2026. The programme features contributions by IASSL members Pauline Mackay, Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman, Paul Malgrati, Struan McCorriscken, and John Watson.

Colleague of the week 🐾

@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993

I’m excited to be working alongside the @natlibscot.bsky.social to deliver their upcoming event in celebration of Burns Night. Come along for some fascinating insight into the Bard’s unique relationship with the natural world! @paulinemackay.bsky.social @dr-ron.bsky.social #scottishliterature

It's great to see so many signing up for the @asleuki.bsky.social Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, on 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT, but there's still room for more! Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...

5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️

🎉 Upcoming BARS Digital Event: Romantic Creativity Roundtable 8th Dec, 1-2:30pm GMT 6 speakers reflect on the relationship between Romanticism & creativity as it permeates writing, teaching and research. Chaired by @adamneikirk.bsky.social More details & free tickets: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6228

Looking forward to discussing our new research into the Burns Supper at 225 Years in January! Tickets now available for the 2026 @glasgowburns.bsky.social conference @uofgarc.bsky.social 👇🏼 all very welcome - do share widely! #BurnsSupper225Years

Burns and Nature 🌳👨‍🌾🐭 Join us and the @natlibscot.bsky.social as we explore the Ploughman Poet’s relationship with nature through poetry, spoken word, song and film. 21st January 2026 | Kelvin Hall | 6pm Book your free ticket here👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/burns-and-...

Book cover! Coming 2026 from Stanford UP ✨

BAVS2026 has a shiny new website! www.ljmu.ac.uk/bavs2026! To celebrate, we are extending our CFP to December 12th. Do come and join us

Check out the BAVS 2026 conference website: www.ljmu.ac.uk/bavs2026 CfP deadline extended until 12th December 2025!

Investigating Irish & Scottish Women Writers of Children’s Literature 12 Dec @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free Exploring regional & national identities in children’s literature c.1750–1940 – an era of major cultural & political upheaval in Ireland & Scotland www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat...

If you like working-class writing and theatre, please join our book launch! #BirminghamHistory Where? National Trust Back to Backs Museum @NTBirmingham, 11 Dec, 6-8pm. For further details & tickets: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin... @midlandhistory.bsky.social @theironroom.bsky.social

It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!

Introducing ‘The Blether’ 💬 The Blether is a developing idea from 4 Scot Lit PGRs @uofglasgow.bsky.social designed to highlight the work and research being carried out in Scottish Literature. Follow us to get involved!📚✍🏼💬 #scottishliterature #theblether #thebletherpgr

New #CFP International #WomensWriting online conference

Really excited to be on the judging panel for the 2026 BARS First Book Prize - details of eligibility, nomination, and submission can be found on @bars.bsky.social’s blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174 Do share widely!

Registration for @rrrjournal.bsky.social's annual conference is now open! Please join us for what will be an intellectually stimulating and rewarding day for PGRs, ECRs, and academics to connect and discuss 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century'! www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-in-the...

An inspiring day last Friday in Perth for the Intangible Cultural Heritage Scotland conference, hearing about living heritage in Scotland today and attitudes to safeguarding. Looking forward to reviewing how @glasgowburns.bsky.social’s research into the Burns Supper will feed into these discussions!

Sincere congratulations to @drleith.bsky.social on her receipt of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the 18th-Century Scottish Studies Society. Leith is a committed and prolific scholar who continues to make major contributions to numerous fields within Scottish Studies. www.sfu.ca/scottishstud...

Welcome! We're a digital project @bristolunienglish.bsky.social bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833). Please follow and repost for updates!

Come visit our excellent Archives & Special Collections! Especially strong in eighteenth-century and Romantic-period books due to the copyright privilege. Awards cover costs up to £2500.

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries! UCC 19 February Boston College 11 March NYU Glucksman House 12 March Royal Irish Academy 25 March www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

📢Funding announcement! Applications for our bursary are now open (deadline 15 December 2025). £750 for ECRs, indie scholars or PhD students working on any aspect of women's studies in the period 1558 to 1837. Full details available on our website: womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/ #funding #ECR #PhD

TODAY 🍂 Join us at 6pm (UK time) to celebrate the latest volume of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, including The Cenci, The Mask of Anarchy, & Julian and Maddalo, to name a few! Free tickets are available below through @bars.bsky.social 🎟

Let's talk libraries! 🔍 Join authors Louise Welsh & Damian Barr TONIGHT for a free in-conversation event at Kelvin Hall about the libraries that shaped them. 📅 6:30-7:30pm, Wednesday, 12 November 📌 Kelvin Hall 🎟️ Free Book your tickets now > www.nls.uk/whats-on/lib...

Call for Papers for 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures is out:pleased to be giving keynote,'Burns along the New Silk Road' @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk @scroll-scotlit.bsky.social @sahavoice.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social scotlit-iassl.org/2025/11/11/c...