Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

🎥 📚 I'm making a short film composed of lots of 20-second clips of different people reading the same line of text: a series of brief instalments. If you would like to be involved - it will be fun, and maybe interesting, and easy (you film on a phone) - please DM me (and/or repost). Thank you!

Next week, Penn Press authors @georginaemw.bsky.social (PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE) and @wsperrazza.bsky.social (ANATOMICAL FORMS) will discuss their books in a virtual panel! See the flyer for more info, and join the event on Thursday Sept. 18 at 12 p.m. CDT / 6 p.m. BST!

It's 2 weeks until the joint launch of @wsperrazza.bsky.social's ANATOMICAL FORMS, Jonathan P. Lamb's HOW THE WORLD BECAME A BOOK IN SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND and my PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! All welcome - join us 6-7pm BST on Thursday 18th Sep. (Message me for Zoom details)

'Chapters remain through all these genres a fundamental tool of composition: a way of writing stories, shaping readings, and making physical and digital "books".’

For the next 4 weeks, when not in the Walpole library archives, I'll be listening to Clarissa on audiobook and reading Charles Lamb's essays. Eighteenth-centuryist method acting!

Foxes and Holidays! I reviewed new editions of old plays in @thetls.bsky.social

A sneak preview of the brilliant line up in a special issue of Critical Quarterly on *PAPER AND POETRY: INTERVENTIONS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE* that I co-edited with Orietta Da Rold!

Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall

Applications for 2 artists' residencies now open at Thin Ice Press! Deadline 25th July www.thinicepress.org/research/pri...

Thanks to our panellists and engaged audience for a wonderful discussion on critical writing, creative writing, close reading, and the jutting elbows of proximate essayists @univeng.bsky.social

Thanks so much to co-editor @zacharylesser.bsky.social as well as all our fantastic contributors! We're thrilled that this special issue is out in the world

Had a brilliant week learning about Artists' Books @ies-sas.bsky.social with @gillpartington.bsky.social! We saw sculptures, boxes, pills, epherama, and >25 gasoline stations. Parts of one page were consumed in the process.

This!

Setting up Thin Ice Press for the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair with @wordsmith.bsky.social - come along and say hello at the Exam Schools this weekend!

Are you a) intrigued by artists' books, and b) looking for something to do 16th-20th June? There's still time to sign up for this course ran by the brilliant @gillpartington.bsky.social

Looking forward to our Print Exchanges flash talks tomorrow at 4pm GMT! Come along to learn about 6 brilliant new projects from @printlady.bsky.social @john-stone.bsky.social @profjrussell.bsky.social Eve Houghton, Priya Nambrath, and Stacie Vos. Email [email protected] for registration link

Huge thanks to Dianne Mitchell and Adhaar Noor Desai for organising such an energised seminar on Shared Forms! We discussed hating Tuesdays, collaborative v. competitive sharing, and the seminar form. Also some tables were sat on #shax2025

Birkbeck's Diversity100 Doctoral Scholarships welcome candidates in Renaissance literature - applications open until 19th May www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...

Proofs!

I'm organising a series of flash talks on 26th March for Print Exchanges: a global research network for anyone working on early(ish) print culture, broadly conceived. If you'd like to join the network, come to the event, or share your work do get in touch at [email protected]

My book has a cover! Forthcoming in September thanks to the team @pennpress.bsky.social www.pennpress.org/978151282744...

On 21st Feb I'll be talking about Why Making Books Means Reading Differently at York's Thin Ice Press - come along to hear about books familiar and curious, amid our printing presses, ink, and type www.thinicepress.org/events/why-m...

This!

Excited to see this out finally! Thanks to @georginaemw.bsky.social tweeting about @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social's paper at the 2021 conf (also in the book), I introduced myself to Malcolm, we got talking about shared #QueerBibliography interests and unanswered Qs and then a load of good stuff happened

A little, last-minute reminder that the deadline to send proposals to @georginaemw.bsky.social and me is tomorrow! We've had some fabulous submissions so far, and can't wait to review everything in the round.

**Print Matters summer school** Applications now open! Deadline 12th Feb 3 days of practical printing sessions, trips, and seminar discussions based at York's Thin Ice Press www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

When the cat gets involved in making mini reading groups for Print Exchanges

www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/b... on (re)reading marginalia @thetls.bsky.social

I'm organising small reading groups to give and receive writing feedback for anyone working on premodern print and book culture (generously defined). Drop an email to [email protected] by Friday 13th December to register your interest! printexchanges.wordpress.com

Really looking forward to chairing our Print Exchanges roundtable on Critical Bibliography today - come along to hear from our brilliant panellists and take part in this and future conversations printexchanges.wordpress.com/forthcoming-...

Call for submissions! *Embodied Knowledge and Making Texts: A Handbook* Send your research proposals and creative responses to Helen Smith and me by 13th Jan www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...

Want to know all about issue 40.2 of Parergon? Our guest editors, @katefallan.bsky.social and Nupur Patel have written a post for the Parergon blog about the special issue on early modern women's agency, how it came together, and its aims and contents. parergon.org/index.php/pa...